DISCOGRAPHY AND
AWARDS
OUR NEW CD
COMING OUT ON MAY 10th 2007
Excerpts in yellow
1.
Balada para un loco
2.
Vuelvo al sur
3.
Calambre
4.
Los Pàrajos perdidos
5.
Tango Remembrances
6.
Balada para mi muerte
7.
Buenos Aires Hora Cero
8.
A Don Nicanor Paredes
9.
Che... Tango Che !
10. Onda Nueve
11.
Chiquilín de Bachin
A journey to the essence of Astor Piazzolla's music is
what the members of Quatuor Caliente offer, passionately
revisiting the Argentine composer's masterpieces with feeling.
We only had to listen to their way of reinterpreting his work in
order to be convinced of its importance and the deep resonance
it leaves more than ten years after its disappearance.
A first CD with a dazzling force!
Michel Plisson
CD recorded in 2004
Label : Aeon (www.aeon.fr)
Distribution : Harmonia Mundi
Recorded at : L'IRCAM, Paris
Title: Libertango
Composer: Astor Piazzolla
Ref: AECD0424
Recorded Pieces: Excerpts in yellow
1. Tangata
2. Escualo
3. Libertango
4. Concierto para Quinteto
5. Adios Nonino
7. Mumuki
8. Michelangelo 70
10. Soledad
AWARDS
PRESS RELEASE
First Prize – International Competition
"Astor Piazzolla Music Award" 2004
Best CD January 2005
Piazzolla's music has often been arranged for new instrumental combinations. It has never, however, been interpreted to the degree that the Quatuor Caliente does. The basic sound of the music is close to that of Piazzolla and his various quintets, featuring Guillaume Hodeau on bandoneón (the concertina-like instrument at the heart of tango music), along with violin, double bass, piano, and on some pieces a vibraphone, an instrument Piazzolla knew well and sometimes wrote for. But these players break new ground in what they do with these instruments. They vary the tempo. They have a solo player open a piece, or reduce the texture to a solo from time to time. Double bassist Nicolas Marty slaps his instrument, adding a vigorous rhythmic dimension. And all the way through there are subtler alterations to these pieces, which are mostly Piazzolla's greatest hits: Libertango, Adiós Nonino, Verano Porteño, La muerte del Angel, and others equally beloved.
If you're looking for a first Piazzolla disc, the ones featuring the composer himself on bandoneón probably make a better place to start, but confirmed Piazzolla fans should definitely check this out. The Quatuor Caliente plays with an intensity that befits the soul of the tango, and it seems to bring out a range of moods in Piazzolla's music that have been only intermittently apparent in other performances.
As a live recording, Libertango is superbly executed, with an electric atmosphere and an amazing sense of actual presence in the hall (ironically enough, the IRCAM studio at the Centre Pompidou in Paris). It may be that this recording will one day be regarded as a breakthrough -- after all, it's a truism that composers don't necessarily make the best interpreters of their own music.
James Manheim, AMG
