ALC 0129 Historias Porteñas

Historias Porteñas offers a journey into works by Astor Piazzolla, Máximo Diego Pujol and Claudio Camisassa, with a writing style that is strongly evocative of the musical and cultural ferment linked to the city of Buenos Aires from the early twentieth century to the present day. These authors are in fact all linked to the city of Buenos Aires, which has deeply inspired them.
Astor Piazzolla stated that he had three great teachers: Alberto Ginastera, Nadia Boulanger and Buenos Aires. His touching Histoire du Tango - whose intense notes have the power to evoke colourful Argentinian musical atmospheres of different eras and contexts - is here explored and revisited in four "musical impressions" for guitar and violin duo, respecting the tradition and a language that marked an era and a trend, that of “Tango Nuevo”.
The journey continues with Máximo Diego Pujol’s Suite Buenos Aires and his "photographs in music" of a city always in turmoil, pulsating to the rhythm of tango and popular tunes, in which the violin has the possibility to dialogue with the guitar painting the colourful neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires Pompeya, Palermo, San Telmo and Microcentro. By the same author Tríptico Porteño, original for guitar and violin, also rich in significant musical and cultural references and movements with a strong descriptive force, depicts the hurrying of passengers and the chugging of ancient steam trains with Estación Retiro, then caresses the listener's ear with the melancholy and romantic tones of El Rosedal, where the guitar sweetly invites the violin to dance with a slow habanera rhythm, finally guiding  the audience into the atmosphere of joy and celebration of Plaza de Mayo.