Wandler Duo - Piazzolla: Café 1930 from Histoire du Tango (violin & piano)

Wandler Duo - Piazzolla: Café 1930 from Histoire du Tango (violin & piano)

Anna Trukhina - Violin
Veronika Salikhova - Piano

Dedicated to the anniversary 100 years of the composer's birthday.

Histoire du Tango is one of the most famous compositions by tango composer Ástor Piazzolla, originally written for flute and guitar written in 1986. It is often played with different combinations, including violin substituted for the flute, and also harp or marimba substituted for the guitar.

It was Piazzolla's life work to bring the tango from the bordellos and dance halls of Argentina into the concert halls of Europe and America.

Histoire du Tango attempts to convey the history and evolution of the tango in four movements: Bordello 1900, Café 1930, Nightclub 1960, and Concert d'Aujourd'hui. Piazzolla provided program notes that expand on the individual movements, there is one for "Cafe, 1930":
"This is another age of the tango. People stopped dancing it as they did in 1900, preferring instead simply to listen to it. It became more musical, and more romantic. This tango has undergone total transformation: the movements are slower, with new and often melancholy harmonies. Tango orchestras come to consist of two violins, two concertinas, a piano, and a bass. The tango is sometimes sung as well."

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