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| Soul of the Tango: The Music of Astor Piazzolla | 
 enlarge | Creators: Edwin Barker, Hector Console, Yo-yo Ma, Jorge Calandrelli, Astor Piazzolla, Horacio Malvicino, Odair Assad, Oscar Castro-neves, Sergio Assad, Frank Corliss, Gerardo Gandini, Kathryn Stott, Leonardo Marconi, Antonio Agri
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $17.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (29 reviews)
Sales Rank: 2019
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 63122
UPC: 074646312223
EAN: 0074646312223
ASIN: B0000029XQ
Release Date: October 2, 1997
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| Customer Reviews:
 Passionate and Inspiring July 8, 2000
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
After about a month, it's already one of my favourite albums. Beautiful music, beautifully played, beautifully recorded! I'm am increasingly seduced by Piazzolla's music, and this is the best I've found so far. Yo-yo is in fine form and the deep voice of the cello adds a fullness to the music that enhances it greatly. I've been listening to it almost everyday as I write my Master's thesis, and it's made the process much more enjoyable. You can't miss with this one!
A feast for the ears and the soul June 22, 2000
32 out of 33 found this review helpful
Yo Yo Ma has always been the frontrunner when it comes to experiencing new water in music. In this fantastic collection of Astor Piazzolla's best known tangos, Ma's breathtaking technique fuses w/ other instrumentalists, who happen to be Piazzolla's closest colleagues when he was alive. Instead of obtruding w/ his virtuous play on the cello, Ma's cello plays the role of a coordinator as he seams soul into the ensemble w/ a wide range of instruments. Yet always in concordance and an odd sense of balance, this recording exhilerates its listeners, and plus the video bonus that enables listeners to observe Ma's playing in the midst of tango dancers, even the dullest classical lovers would want to jump up and forsake the atmosphere of tradition. I highly recommended Fugota, with zesty hight notes of violin with Ma's ambiguous spiccato, this track is a seductive force that sweeps you off your feet. The curves, the turns, the surprises of tango are so cantagious that you cannot turn your heart away from this charmer.
My favorite Yo Yo Ma CD June 17, 2000
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
This is the work of two musical masters Piazzolla and Yo Yo Ma. Ma cello is flawless in its attack. He uses his technique now for emphesis and focuses more on the perfection of Tone and dynamics in this work. Here is an recording not played with constant vibrato as most of Ma's work, but in clean tones and sharp precise changes in tempo dynmaincs and melody.This was my first Tango recording and is still my favorite. Piazzolla is impressive in his ability to make the music dance in your mind. The instruments and musicians are in a dance themselves if they were to seperate or not play together in the exactitude of a dance they would fail, but they also bring the passion of music that ins mixed with carefree and bitter sweet sounds. This is worth the risk even if your uncertain about listen ing to Tangos
wonderfully passionate December 12, 1999
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
Yo-Yo Ma's rendition of Libertango is magnificent. Full of passion. Makes you want to get up and dance! And plug the CD into your computer to watch the video, an interview with Yo-Yo Ma and pictures. Buy it now.
Superb November 30, 1999
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
Glorious music played with passion and vitality. Recorded music doesn't get much better than this.
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