Le Grand Tango
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- Composer
- Tagell, Huguety
- Performers
- Kliegel, Maria, Glemser, Bernd
- Label
- Naxos
- Barcode
- 9786303298276
Le Grand Tango and other Dances for Cello and PianoThe title of the present collection of music for cello and piano is takenfrom the work of the twentieth century Argentinian master of the dance form,Astor Piazzolla (b. 1921), who has written tangos for a wide variety ofinstrumental groupings. The collection starts with another popular musical formassociated with the Spanish motherland, Huguety Tagell's evocation of the spiritof flamenco.Gaspar Cassado was also Spanish, or, more specifically, Catalan by birth. Hewas born in Barcelona in 1897, the son of the organist and composer JoaquinCassado Valls and studied the cello in Paris with his compatriot Pablo Casals.He began his concert career in 1918, appearing as a soloist, recitalist and,with the greatest distinction over many years, in chamber music together withsome of the most famous musicians of the present century. He died in Madrid onChristmas Eve 1966. As a composer Cassado was greatly influenced by hiscontemporaries in Paris, Maurice Ravel and Manuel de Falla, the first the son ofa mother from the Basque country and the second the most influential ofcontemporary Spanish composers. His Solo Suite includes, as its secondmovement, the most characteristic of Catalan dances, the Sardana.Manuel de Falla was a native of Cadiz, where he was born in 1876, movinglater to Madrid and then to Paris, where he remained until the outbreak of warin 1914. He later settled in Granada, where he formed a friendship with the poetFederico Ga
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Details
- Solo suite per cello e piano
- Solo suite per cello e piano
- Solo suite per cello e piano
- Solo suite per cello e piano
- Solo suite per cello e piano
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