Let's Tango. Tangos Argentinos (1992)

Album released in 1993 in Portugal, licensed under the Compact Seal Club, which brings together 25 superb interpretations of tangos by the 'Tango Orchestra of Buenos Aires' and all-digital recording. This musical group under the Ministry of Culture of Buenos Aires debuted in 1980 and since then he has steadily performed in many parts of Argentina and Latin American countries. Until 2006 it was usually directed by Carlos Garcia and Raul Garello, along with specific actions of other famous musicians, and today is headed by R. Garello, Nestor Marconi and John Carlos Cuacci. Consists of some 36 musicians which include several of the leading musicians of the genre. The orchestra also performs special performances and educational activities as part of an outreach program of tango music to children and youth. Certainly the wide range offered on this CD is another interpretation to the undisputed jewel looming timeless classics of the history of tango. Over one hour of essential recording to plunge into the tango universe.

Four CD Box Set featuring the Greates Tango Musician: Carlos Gardel, Tino Rossi, Jean Lumiere, Elyane Celis, Charlo, etc.

Tango has long become more than the popular Argentine urban dance which developed after 1870 in the poor working class and immigrant areas on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. Tango has aficionados worldwide – be it for its music, culture or the dance. On New Year’s Eve 2006, conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim, Argentinean by birth and upbringing, celebrated the end of the year with a spectacular musical event: a festival of Argentinean music live from Buenos Aires. In a seamless fusion of classical and traditional music, the Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires under Barenboim joined the excellent bandoneon virtuoso Leopoldo Federico and his Orquesta Tipica to present an extraordinary show with popular tangos and Latin American orchestra classics to a crowd of 10,000 in a free open-air concert at the Plaza de la República.

'Pequeña Compañía' was a Spanish vocal group made up of four singers who built his career between 1978 and 1987. They performed melodic songs in a medley format usually bringing popular themes (boleros, chachacha, tangos, cumbias, etc..) which achieved great success at those years.

Through his life, Piazzolla’s passion was the music of Argentina, which meant the tango, and through his development of tango nuevo he made “respectable” what originally was urban dance music of the working classes in Buenos Aires. Of course, he did this by taking the very elements that gave this music its earthy appeal–excited, swirling, sensuous melody, pulsing ostinato, syncopation–and recast them in more sophisticated forms, particularly regarding rhythm (including polyrhythmic structures and irregular divisions) and harmonies derived from jazz and classical styles.

Astor Piazzolla's cerebral yet lusty take on tango was probably a direct result of his family having moved from Argentina to New York when he was only three years old. While he was growing up in Little Italy, his father presented him with a second-hand bandoneon (a type of squeezebox), which he mastered in record time...