Claudio MONTEVERDI - Astor PIAZZOLLA

The full text of this review is published in Early Music Today Dec-Feb 2012-13

The affections of baroque music are likened to the affections of the Tango in this skillfully performed programme and presented side-by-side these musics display many parallels, both structural and emotive. 

Happily, Monteverdi’s music survives recasting in Piazzolla’s style and demonstrates more plasticity than would other early baroque composers. However in substituting the style of Monteverdi for that of the Tango, we seem to have ended up with a disc of music that begins to sound the same. 

Ambronay AMY034

Cappella Mediterranea, Leonardo García Alarcón

original title: Claudio Monteverdi & Astor Piazzolla : Una Utopia Argentina

collection: Association Art et Musique

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