Anne-Sophie Mutter - Tango Song & Dance (2003)
Artist: Anne-Sophie Mutter
Title: Tango Song & Dance
Year Of Release: 2003
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 76:13
Total Size: 333 Mb
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Tracklist: Title: Tango Song & Dance
Year Of Release: 2003
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 76:13
Total Size: 333 Mb
WebSite: Album Preview
André Prévin - Tango Song and Dance
01. Tango. Passionately
02. Song. Simply
03. Dance. Jazz Feeling
Johannes Brahms
04. Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G Minor. Allegro Molto
05. Hungarian Dance No. 6 in B Flat Major. Vivace
06. Hungarian Dance No. 7 in a Major. Allegretto
George Gershwin - Porgy and Bess
07. Summertime
08. It Ain't Necessarily So
09. Bess, You Is My Woman Now
10. My Man's Gone Now
Fritz Kreisler
11. Schon Rosmarin
12. Caprice Viennois Op. 2
13. Liebesleid (Chagrin d'Amour)
Gabriel Fauré - Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in a Major, Op. 13
14. Allegro Molto
15. Andante
16. Allegro Vivo
17. Allegro Quasi Pre
Performers:
Anne-Sophie Mutter (Violin)
Lambert Orkis (Piano)
Andre Previn (Piano)
Anyone would assume from the title Tango Song and Dance that this album contains performances of Piazzolla and friends, representing an effort on the part of Anne-Sophie Mutter to cash in on the recent tango craze. Actually, the only tango-related piece here, the title composition by Mutter's husband André Previn, was written in 1997 before that trend really got started in classical music. Instead, Tango Song and Dance offers a collection of dance-inflected pieces that diverges from Mutter's usual serious fare but benefits equally from her commanding musical personality. These performances are great fun and, for the most part, will take you back to the days of the star virtuoso. Previn joins Mutter on piano for his own work, and their complementarity -- he is suave, she intense -- is delightful. The work sounds not like Piazzolla but like Ravel composing a tango; its final movement is in a 7/8 time that cleverly trips up the tango feel. Some reviewers have reproached the liberties Mutter takes with the Joseph Joachim transcriptions of three Brahms Hungarian Dances, but it's hard to imagine that Joachim, in Brahms' own time, would have done any less. Only in a group of selections from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess does Mutter seem out of her element; she executes the Jascha Heifetz arrangements flawlessly, but despite former jazzman Previn's presence, it ain't got that swing. Mutter's usual sideman Lambert Orkis returns to the keyboard for three Fritz Kreisler encores, however (Previn plays only on the Gershwin and his own piece), and Mutter takes command once again with swooping, sentiment-drenched thrills. Fauré's Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 13, a tuneful piece with a whiff of the music hall, makes an unexpected but satisfying conclusion. In all, a wonderful outing for a great artist who deserved to lighten up.