1. Romance del Diablo -7:00 MP3
2. Otono Porteno -6:03 MP3
3. Tango #2 from Tango Suite -5:21 MP3
4. Kicho -5.:01 MP3
5. Adios Nonino -3:39
6. Verano Porteno -5:40 MP3
7. Muerte del Angel -3:53 MP3
8. Resurreccion del Angel -7:09 MP3
9. Milonga del Angel -7:44 MP3
10. Contrabajissimo 10:02
11. Michelangelo -3:06 MP3

Total time: 64:42

Recorded live on 13th June 2004 in Aram Khachaturian Hall, Yerevan, Armenia

© & ® Cadence Music Centre.
Made in Armenia 2004

Produced by Nika Babayan.

$17.24

CD_C-008

Performs Live ASTOR PIAZZOLLA

Armen Babakhanian -piano
Hakob Jagatspanyan -guitar
Varazdat Khachumyan violin
Gevorg Gasparyan -accordeon/bandoneon
Khachatur Savzyan -contrabass

Cadence Ensemble was formed in January 2004 under leadership of outstanding Armenian pianist Armen Babakhanian, prize-winner of numerous prestigious international piano competition. The ensemble members are virtuosi instrumentalists known in Armenia and abroad: Hakob Jagatspanyan in the leading Armenian guitarist performing on the highest professional level classical and flamenco music; Varazdat Khachumyan in well known violist masterly interpreting Gipsy and Russian romances, traditional Armenian music; Gevorg Gasparyan is the most virtuoso Armenian accordeonist and the first Armenian musician performing on bandoneon, Khachatur Savzyan is famous jazz contrabass player involved in numerous concert and recording projects. When touring abroad the ensemble members ussually give additional recitals, solo performances, master-classes.

Astor Piazzolla, a virtuoso on the bandoneon, is credited as the creator of modern tango.
Was born in 1921 in Mar del Plata, Argentina. In 1924 Piazzolla and his parents moved to New York, where in 1929 he discovered the bandoneon (square built button accordion). In 1932 he composed his first tango, ‘La Catinga’.
Piazzolla returned to Mar del Plata, where, in 1936, he began to take part in local groups and even lead one. In 1938, Piazzolla moved to Buenos Aires. After cutting his teeth with various orchestras in Buenos Aires, Piazzolla formed his own orchestra in 1946, but still felt restricted by the traditional standards of the genre.
In the early 1950s as composer Piazzolla was concentrated on classical music. To further his classical learnings, in 1954 he moved to France through a scholarship granted by the Paris Conservatory. He studied under the renowned musicologist Nadia Boulanger who encouraged Piazzolla to develop further experiments with tango and bandoneon.
Piazzolla recorded some of his compositions in Paris in 1955 with the strings of the Paris Opera Orchestra, Martial Solar on piano and Piazzolla himself on bandoneon.
Back in Argentina Piazzolla tried to put his ideas into practice, but met extreme hostility. Thoroughly disillusioned, he returned to New York in 1956.
On his return to Buenos Aires in 1960 Piazzolla put together his most innovative and important band, the five-piece Quinteto Nuevo Tango (bandoneon, piano, violin, electric guitar and double bass). For a brief period in 1963 he experimented Nuevo Octeto