Piazzolla

4 Seasons of Tango

In the Estaciones Porteñas (Four Seasons of Buenos Aires), Astor Piazzolla pays homage to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Borrowing the Baroque master’s writing techniques, the man with the accordion here carries on the tango tradition, or the heat of the sun alongside the dark of the abyss. Hips swaying rhythmically on a stage of tears and regrets, Lucila Cionci and Rodrigo “Joe” Corbata, a magnificent Argentinean dance couple with an international career, display the soul of Tango with madness and feverish obsession while injecting a strong dose of charm. With its sublimated provocations and ostentatious vulgarity, the street origins of tango can always be felt in Piazzolla’s compositions. With his evocations of a better world through the language of nostalgia, he grafts his love of refined Western music onto Argentina’s thumping beat. Dark with melancholy, the Four Seasons is at bottom a tragic declaration, with musicians and dancers imbued with its magnetic, versatile and captivating passion.


Programme

Astor Piazzolla

Histoire du Tango (Bordel 1900, Café 1930, Nightclub 1960, Concert d’Aujourd’hui)


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