You've Been Tango'd

Listening to this disk for the first time in a while ( as is the case with most of them and one of the main reasons for this blog )I was surprised by how familiar the music was. Which illustrates how ubiquitous the music of Astor Piazzolla has become on Radio 3 over the last five or so years. It's an excellent disk though and all I would ever need of Piazzolla. By the Orchestre Symphonique De Montreal under Charles Dutoit, it is titled Tangazo and that work features alongside Adios Nonino, Milonga del Angel, Double Concerto for Bandoneon and Guitar, Oblivion, Tres Movimientos Tanguisticos Portenos and Danza Criolla. Soloists are Daniel Binelli bandoneon, Eduardo Isaac guitar and Louise Pellerin oboe. Piazzolla's trail blazing to broaden the scope and appeal of the tango has been followed up in the world music field more than in classical circles, I haven't noticed Osvaldo Golijov incorporating much of a tmnago influence for instance. But even if it ends up being a bit of a dead end like maybe Villa Lobos in Brazil, the music seems set to have a continuing life of its' own. Dutoit is a bit of a Ravel specialist and some of the orchestral colourings sound similar here. Another of those coincidences thrown up by my random way of selecting these disks from the shelf is that the previous Adams disk had a guitar part in an orchestral setting and there is also one now here in the double concerto. There's probably only one other such piece featuring guitar and orchestra in my collection and you may be able to guess what that is.