The compositions selected for this album are among Piazzolla’s most significant creations of the 60s, not only musically but also due to the link between his development and character evolution with the life circumstances he found himself in, as it comes from a time period when he experienced loneliness, emotional turbulence and mysticism.
Among these pieces we find the fugue, a musical form popularized during the Baroque era, with a most profound melancholy expressed in the Ángel series, and its polar opposite in the Diablo series, characteristically elaborated with a more dissonant and aggressive sound.
From these works emerges an aura of master refinement that, alternated with the “Piazzolleano” handling of the rustic quality that is typical of the tango aesthetic, generates a striking yet beautiful contrast.
This album showcases a stylistic journey from the twists and turns of Piazzolla’s Nuevo Tango, through his most sophisticated compositions made during the prodigious and prolific decade of the 60s.