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The Three Musketeers of the "nuevo tango"

Rencontres musicales de Cassis,
February 10, 2011

Who are four in reality, of course, as the hero of Dumas. Four buddies so enamored of "nuevo tango", the new tango renewed in the 60s, by Astor Piazzola (1921-1992), united in 2000 to be interpreters at home and their success is such that they will bring this good news music abroad as well. First battle won in 2004: the four lads won the international competition Piazzolla Music Award Milan, crowned by a first disk, Libertango (Acon / Harmonia Mundi), followed by another in 2007.

's here tonight, in Cassis in the Oustau Calendal, to officiate at the ritual devotee Piazzolla and other great musicians from Argentina. Classically trained student composer Alberto Ginastera (inspired in his songs of Argentine folklore) and one-time disciple of Nadia Boulanger , Piazzola tango in his hard traditional instruments, guitar and bandoneon, the grasp of rhythmic dance and open to the influences of contemporary music, jazz, playing extended keys or boundaries, percussive sounds or rubbed the fingers, hands, on the wings of larger instrumental ensembles.

is a set of model that follows this with a Quartet Emblematic caliente bandoneon ( Gilberto Pereyra ), piano ( Cedric Lorel), bass (Nicolas Marty ) and also a brandished Flamberge violin like the wind (Michel Berner ). Each console has its moment of independence in this music challenging, virtuosic solo playing, even the bass ( Contrabajeando ). Undulating snake, fan pleated rainbow of harmonics, the bandoneon plays its stridency, its annoying and even scary but delicious acidity, and escaped towards acute flare streak or lovingly and angrily storms on the violin ( Verano porteño ) while the piano hammers agreements severe decomposed scansions on fatal double bass pizzicato in dark. The sound is full, generous, rich, enveloping warmth of the agreements refined.

In this magnificent setting, the gem of a voice, slow, delicate and strong at the time: the singer Sandra Rumolino . Slender and graceful silhouette of languid meandering s compadrita sleek, slinky black dress to the body, lace or light on dark skin underneath, short hair, a sparrow, a "sparrow" a Piaf, a lovely suburb of Tanagra porteños Buenos Aires. No effects magnified, no effective limit to the expressionist caricatures that are the lot, too often, singers of tango pitching glaucous sobs. Sandra has a right expression, rhythmically precise, and in that voice of remarkable purity, it glides with sensitivity without sentimentality, all the heartbreaking and human distress of these texts and music: it looks with tenderness and sweetness on sharp Chiquilín of this Bachini , this poor little flower vendor, crunches with the silhouette of humor Titer Borges, this compadrito type of boy suburb, and dashing clothes, big mouth, arrogant and feisty, playing guys, Mandon, authoritarian in its reports, pathetic puppet of urban clichés of masculinity. You go through the touching Balada para un loco , text Horacio Ferrer, with whom write Piazzola tango opera Maria de Buenos Aires , now a classic, which, in the milonga , Sandra Rumolino apotheosis a passionate identification. And we do not forget, in French, this intense and profound song about forgetting.

Tribute was paid also to the great pianist and composer Horacio Salgan, Gustavo Beytelmann, the duo Scarpini / Caldarella in this concert, beyond Piazzolla and the tango is a beautiful tribute to the music, great, that is to say, beyond gender, the beautiful.

Cassis Oustau Calendal, February 10, 2011,

Quartet caliente, Sandra Rumolino singing

Music of Astor Piazzolla, Horacio Salgan Gustavo Beytelmann, and Scarpini Caldarella.

Photos :

1. A singer with touches of grace;

2. From right to left: Nicolas Marty, Cedric Lorel, Sandra Rumolino, Gilberto Pereyra and Michael Berrier.