Showing posts with label Tango. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tango. Show all posts

6.5.15

Apprendre le français


Boulanger

Nadia Boulanger

Nadia Boulanger & Astor Piazzolla

... One of the prizes he won at this composition contest was a scholarship from the French governement to study in Paris (where he goes in 1954), with Nadia Boulanger, considered the best educator in the world of music at the time. At first, Piazzolla tries to hide his tanguero past and his bandoneon work, thinking that his destiny is in classical music. This situation is quickly remedied when he opens his heart to Boulanger and he plays his tango “Triunfal” for her. From then on he receives a historic recommendation: “Astor, your classical pieces are well written, but the true Piazzolla is here, never leave it behind” ...
  

 
Georges Rabol
Adios Astor
1994

Tracks:

01 - Libertango
02 - Alguien le dice al tango
03 - Adios nonino
04 - Imperial
05 - Vuelvo al sur
06 - Milonga del angel
07 - Invierno porteño
08 - Contrastes
09 - S.V.P.
10 - Luz y sombra
11 - Chau Paris
12 - Adios Astor (by Georges Rabol)

all tracks by Astor Piazzolla except track 12

Georges Rabol (Piano)

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 Georges Rabol

Born 1938 in Paris
 
Georges Rabol's father was born in Martinique. Rabol studied music first with Jean Courbin and Lazare Lévy; then entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where he studied piano, harmony and counterpoint.

After finishing his studies, Georges Rabol has given numerous concerts all over the world, in recital and in chamber music with renowned soloists as F. Lodéon, F. Fontanarosa, Mr. Maïski, G. Caussé, A. Flammer, I. Gitlis, G. Zamfir, etc.

Georges Rabol's multiple gifts also led him to compose for the ballet, the theatre, the cinema, the radio and television: Roland Petit (Parisiana 25), René de Obaldia (La Baby-Sitter, Le Banquet des Méduses), Luis Bunuel (Le Charme Discret de La Bourgeoisie, Le Fantôme de la Liberté, Cet Obscur Objet du Désir), Med Hondo (West Indies), Radio France (Fantaisie Ballet, work for symphony orchestra), Jean-Christophe Averty (2 Dramas), etc. From the beginning he was interested in the musical writing and recorded many discs of his own compositions (Baroque Jazz Trio, Aenaon, Alchimie…), beside specific orders such as virtuoso pieces for flute and piano (Songe Caraïbe) or a suite in septuor created for the Opéra de Marseille.

His original course led Georges Rabol from Baroque to Jazz, through the Romantic period, the French music and the musical richness of Americas: Gottschalk, Gershwin, Piazzolla, etc. He can be defined as a cross-over artist, who did handle with brilliance all kinds of music, on the interpretation level as well as on the composition level. His mixed Antilles-European blood made it natural for him being interested in all the kinds of music...





 

27.12.12

And now ... Olavi Virta ...

  
Olavi Virta
20 suosikkia / Hopeinen kuu


Tracks:

01. Armi - Olavi Virta - 2:49
02. Unelmatango -Tango du reven- - Olavi Virta - 3:04
03. Carmen Sylva - Olavi Virta - 3:04
04. La Cumparsita - Olavi Virta ja Metro-Tytöt - 2:36
05. Hymy -Smile- - Olavi Virta - 2:42
06. Täysikuu - Olavi Virta - 3:04
07. Syysunelmia - Olavi Virta ja Harmony Sisters - 3:01
08. Kylmä rakkaus - Olavi Virta - 2:26
09. Assuncion - Olavi Virta - 3:21
10. Saavuthan jälleen Roomaan - Olavi Virta - 3:18
11. Tango Desirée - Olavi Virta - 3:13
12. Mustalaisruhtinatar - Olavi Virta - 3:30
13. Hurmio (Ecstacy) - Olavi Virta - 3:00
14. Lazzarella - Olavi Virta - 3:28
15. Hopeinen kuu -Guarda che luna- - Olavi Virta - 3:21
16. Kuinka saatoitkaan -Oh, What You Do To Me- - Olavi Virta - 2:41
17. Johnny, mua muistathan -Johnny, Remember Me- - Olavi Virta - 2:36
18. Kun ilta ehtii - Olavi Virta - 2:36
19. Yö kerran unhoa annoit - Olavi Virta - 2:34
20. Sateinen ilta -Soir de pluie- - Olavi Virta - 3:06
  
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 Olavi Virta (originally to 1926 Oskari Olavi Ilmen) (27 February 1915, Sysmä, Finland – 14 July 1972, Tampere, Finland) was a Finnish singer, acclaimed as the king of Finnish tango. Between 1939 and 1966 he recorded almost 600 songs, many of which are classics of Finnish popular music, and appeared in many films and theatrical productions. Of his most acclaimed tangos are Punatukkaiselle tytölleni (For my red haired girl), Ennen kuolemaa (Before death) (Avant de mourir) and Täysikuu (Full moon), while standouts from his other popular music are Poika varjoisalta kujalta (Boy from a shady alley) (Guaglione), Hopeinen kuu (Silver moon) (Guarda Che Luna), Eva and Kultainen nuoruus (The golden youth). He was also the second tenor of the quartet Kipparikvartetti in the early 1950s. At the beginning of his career he received three gold records for the songs Ennen kuolemaa, Tulisuudelma (El Choclo) and La Cumparsita. Olavi Virta's career was cut short by a scandalous arrest for drunken driving in 1962, after which the press mockingly called him "The Singing Meatball." Ten years later he succumbed to alcoholism, living his final years in poverty.


  
In the 1950's and 1960's many classic covers were born and one of them is Fred Buscaglione's Guarda che luna that Olavi Virta, one of the most loved Finnish singers ever, recorded as Hopeinen kuu. Ever since this song has been part of most every tango singers repertoire and his been recorded dozens if not hundreds of times by various singers. A real classic and evergreen in Finland.



thanks to na'uma for the wink : )

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