| The Rough Dancer and the Cyclical Night (Tango Apasionado) | ||||
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| Released | 1988 | |||
| Recorded | 1987 | |||
| Genre | Tango | |||
| Label | American Clavé [1] | |||
| Producer | Kip Hanrahan, Astor Piazzolla | |||
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The Rough Dancer and the Cyclical Night (Tango Apasionado) is an album by the Argentinian musician Astor Piazzolla. [2] It was released in 1988. [3] The album was reissued by Nonesuch Records in the late 1990s. [4]
Recorded in New York City in 1987, the album was produced by Kip Hanrahan and Piazzolla. [5] [6] Its music was originally developed as a theater performance about the history of the tango. [7] Piazzolla, who played the bandoneon, recorded the album with his Quinteto Tango Nuevo. [8] [9] Paquito D'Rivera played saxophone on Rough Dancer. [10] Pablo Ziegler and Pablo Zinger played piano; Zinger had acted as the musical director for the stage production.[ citation needed ] [11] Horacio Malvicino played guitar. [12] Piazzolla wrote in the liner notes of his desire to have the music sound as if it were played by "'half-drunk musicians in a bordello.'" [13]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [14] |
| Robert Christgau | A− [7] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [15] |
| Knoxville News Sentinel | A [13] |
| Los Angeles Daily News | [16] |
| MusicHound World: The Essential Album Guide | [6] |
Robert Christgau noted that Piazzolla is "closer to Bartok the composer than to Ellington the orchestrator, and tends to limit improvisatory space." [7] The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote that the music "retains—and embellishes—the not-quite-smoldering sensuality characteristic of traditional tango." [3]
AllMusic wrote that, "unlike Zero Hour ... Rough Dancer has more of whimsical feel, with the often perilous shifts in tempo and mood of the earlier record being handled in smoother fashion here." [14] Reviewing a reissue package, the Austin American-Statesman's Don McLeese opined that, "in a manner beyond form or category, this is some of the most sublimely mesmerizing music I've ever experienced." [17] The Los Angeles Daily News deemed it "a quiet gem" and "romantic, melodic and lush." [16] The Plain Dealer concluded that it "vividly documents the composer's deep roots in the traditional dance form and the edgy innovations of his nuevo tango." [18]
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Prologue (Tango Apasionado)" | |
| 2. | "Milonga for Three" | |
| 3. | "Street Tango" | |
| 4. | "Milonga Picaresque" | |
| 5. | "Knife Fight" | |
| 6. | "Leonora's Song" | |
| 7. | "Prelude to the Cyclical Night (Part One)" | |
| 8. | "Butcher's Death" | |
| 9. | "Leijia's Game" | |
| 10. | "Milonga for Three (Reprise)" | |
| 11. | "Bailongo" | |
| 12. | "Leonora's Love Theme" | |
| 13. | "Finale (Tango Apasionado)" | |
| 14. | "Prelude to the Cyclical Night (Part Two)" |
Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla was an Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player, and arranger. His works revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music. A virtuoso bandoneonist, he regularly performed his own compositions with a variety of ensembles. In 1992, American music critic Stephen Holden described Piazzolla as "the world's foremost composer of Tango music".
The bandoneon is a type of concertina particularly popular in Argentina and Uruguay. It is a typical instrument in most tango ensembles. As with other members of the concertina family, it is held between the hands, and played by pulling and pushing air through bellows, routing it through sets of tuned metal reeds by pressing the instrument's buttons. Unlike most accordions, bandoneons always employ the same sets of reeds to produce their sound, and do not usually have the register switches common on accordions. Nevertheless, the bandoneon can be played very expressively, using various bellows pressures and other techniques.
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