Karen Gomyo, Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire & Stephanie Jones – A Piazzolla Trilogy (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:43 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
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From the moment Karen Gomyo first heard Astor Piazzolla, at the age of fourteen, she was spellbound: “I had never heard such a combination of sensuality, fierceness, playfulness, sadness and nostalgia”. As a violinist she found the role of the violin in Piazzolla’s music especially inspiring, and soon started playing it herself – first in various group combinations, and eventually together with Piazzolla’s longtime pianist Pablo Ziegler and his Tango Quartet. For the present recording she has chosen to record strings-only versions of three works originally for tango quintet (Seasons), guitar and flute (Histoire du Tango), and solo flute (‘Etudes).
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