@sellathechemist @catsalad @accordionnoir
The great joke of the #bandoneon 🪗🧉😢

“The bandoneon was originally designed to be easy to play: using the same finger technique, you could switch from the tonic to the dominant by opening and closing the bellows – just like a small portable organ

“But as soon as you wanted to play more complex music…

https://operavision.eu/performance/maria-de-buenos-aires
#Piazzolla #Tango #opera

@sellathechemist @catsalad
I didn’t know there was a box set of all #Piazzolla’s recordings?

I read one of his biographies, and talked to somebody who dealt with some of his manuscripts

It sounded like he just compulsively composed (for the money)

Discarding pieces like a Oblivion without intending to record them well for posterity

(They had to twist his arm on that one)

My acquaintance made it sound like there was so much material no one could ever deal with it
#tango #bandoneon