Hommage à Piazzolla – review

Astor Quartet/Kremerata Baltica/Kremer(Nonesuch, eight CDs)When he died in 1992, Astor Piazzolla left a huge legacy of studio and live records, but it was a decade until his reputation began to grow internationally. The series of Piazzolla discs begun in 1996 by violinist Gidon Kremer played a major part; they demonstrated that Piazzolla's music could thrive outside the context of the Argentinian culture that formed it, and that international musicians could perform it very effectively. Here are...

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