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27-May-2022
by Dr Herbert Scheibenreif Manager of Friedrich Lips Productions
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| Accordionist Nikola Djoric was invited to perform Piazzolla's concerto for bandoneon, piano and strings at a recent concert given by the Mödlinger Symphonisches Orchester under Daniel Auner in Burg Perchtoldsdorf, Austria. In addition to Piazzolla, the concert featured hits from film music by Alfred Newman, John Williams, Nino Rota, Wojciech Kilar and Hans Zimmer. Piazzolla's Bandoneon Concerto (also called "Aconcagua" by the publisher Aldo Pagani because "this is the culmination of Astor's work and the highest mountain in South America, Aconcagua") was composed in 1979. Piazzolla was at the peak of his musical creativity when he wrote this concerto for Simón Blech, a Polish conductor who was successful in Argentina. The character of a Chopin nocturne in the slow second movement of the concerto is a – unconscious or conscious – reverence for the Polish client. The concerto consists of three movements in the classical scheme fast-slow-fast. The soloist sets in immediately with a sharply focused tango, punctuated by harp and percussion under powerful string chords. The first movement, Allegro Moderato, contains a singing middle section and two cadenzas. The lyrical Moderato second movement begins with the bandoneon alone, finally joined by the harp in an elegantly reflective duet. After an exciting climax, the movement ends with a gentle restatement of the opening theme. The third movement Presto has much in common with 'La muerte del ángel' - the initial walking bass line, the rhythmically offset upward leaps of the solo entry. This finale is based on a very danceable street tango that Piazzolla first used in his soundtrack for the film Con alma y vida. "I didn't know how to end it," said Piazzolla. "And then I said to myself: I'll give them a tango, so that the scholars know that if I want to, I can write as they do, and if I want to, I can do my thing." At the end there is a slow, tender voice melodically pulsating tango, which then dissolves into a final rage that is almost pure rhythm: "Melancolico Final". |