Piazzolla Stories

by Lucienne Renaudin Vary, Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Sascha Goetzel

Overview

The rapid stream of Piazzolla releases of the years on either side of 2000 has slowed a bit, but performers keep coming up with fresh takes on his music. An example is this set of "Piazzolla Stories" by trumpeter Lucienne Renaudin Vary. One wouldn't immediately expect the trumpet to be well suited to Piazzolla's music, but Vary has approached her task intelligently in several ways. For one thing, her program is not exclusively devoted to the tango master; the Stories are views into Piazzolla's relationships with other composers who had an impact on his music in some way. These are not just the obvious ones -- tango star Carlos Gardel, composer and Piazzolla's teacher Alberto Ginastera -- but also Bach, Nadia Boulanger (another teacher, and the one responsible for Piazzolla's having selected tango as his path), and Niccolo Paganini, perhaps a stretch, but the transcriptions for trumpet are great. Further, although Oblivion is here, Vary inclines toward tango songs and the overture music from the opera Maria de Buenos Aires more than toward the bandoneonist's classic tangos, where the trumpet might have an unwanted dominant role. She cultivates a gentle, melancholy tone that is appropriate to the tango surroundings, and the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra also shapes itself well to the music. This may be an odd Piazzolla/classical crossover release, but give it a hearing. ~ James Manheim

Product Details

Release Date:	04/09/2021
Label:	Warner Classics
UPC:	0190295155636
Rank:	119859

Tracks

1. Chin Chin
2. Oblivion
3. Danza de la moza donosa No. 2 from Danzas Argentinas, Op. 2
4. Mar¿¿a de Buenos Aires
5. Tango pour Claude
6. Chiquil¿¿n de Bach¿¿n
7. Sonata in G minor BWC 1001~Presto
8. Lux aeterna
9. Chau Paris reduction Massimo Morganti
10. Ave Maria "tanti anni prima"
11. Caprice No. 24 from 24 Caprices Op.1~Theme-Vars. 1-5, 7, 9-11
12. Years of Solitude
13. Close Your Eyes and Listen
14. Volver

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Lucienne Renaudin Vary   Primary Artist,Trumpet
Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra   Primary Artist,Orchestra
Sascha Goetzel   Primary Artist,Conductor
Richard Galliano   Featured Artist,Accordion
Monte Carlo Philharmonic String Quartet   String Quartet
Jerome Ducros   Orchestra
Thibaut Garcia   Guitar
Monte-Carlo String Quartet   String Quartet

Technical Credits

Niccolo Paganini   Composer
Astor Piazzolla   Composer
Alberto Ginastera   Composer
Carlos Gardel   Composer
Jacky Lepage   Photography
Marco Borggreve   Photography
Richard Galliano   Orchestration,Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach   Composer
Jim Coral   Photography
Didier Benetti   Arranger
Nadia Boulanger   Composer
Allan Ramsay   Mastering
Raphael Mouterde   Editing,Recording Producer
Robert Sargant   Liner Note Translation
Jerome Ducros   Arranger,Orchestration,Transcription
Alain Lanceron   Executive Producer
Bob Zimmerman   Arranger
Sylvain Denis   Mixing,Engineer
Massimo Morganti   Arranger
Hilla Maria Heintz   Translation
Simon Fowler   Photography
Lucienne Renaudin Vary   Liner Notes
Oezge Balkan   Photography