Ástor Piazzolla: “Calambre” | CRduo (violin & guitar) | [Black box video]

Get your PIAZZOLLA CENTENARIO CD right now! This tango reflects Piazzolla’s passion for instrumental virtuosity and his predilection for the baroque language. Had Bach known about tango, he would have probably composed something like this. The dramatism of this music —including a thrilling solo in the middle section— is well represented through the strong contrast between the black background with the vibrant colors of our instruments and our wild movements (“Calambre” means “cramp” by the way) performing this masterpiece! The Argentinian maestro demonstrates his counterpoint mastery, which he intensely practiced during his internship in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. Considered by many experts as the most important female musical educator of all time, Boulanger managed to reinforce Ástor’s identity as a composer with a very personal, authentic and innovative style. Besides that, she convinced him not to feel ashamed of his tango roots nor of his years of mus