Aconcagua, Piazzolla bandoneon conerto, June the 3th
What do you know about “Aconcagua”? And what does it has to do with Astor Piazzolla or his bandoneon concerto.
Aconcagua is one of the seven summits, the highest mountain in the Americas. It is located close to the city of Mendoza in Argentina. But Aconcagua is also the name (given by the score publisher Aldo Pagani) of the bandoneon concerto by the Argentinian composer and bandoneonist Astor Piazzolla. The concerto is written for strings, piano, harp, percussion and bandoneon. It’s three movements are in the classical from: fast – slow -fast. Piazzolla’s new tango (Tango nuevo) plays a big part in the concerto and the composer himself once described the third movement, ‘Final’ with this words: “I didn’t know how to finish it,” Piazzolla said. “And then I told myself: I give them a tango so the erudite know that when I want I can write like them, and when I want I can do my thing.” At the end, Piazzolla adds a section labeled “Melancolico Final,” a tenderly tuneful tango that then dissolves into a final fury.”
Tatu Kantomaa will perform the Bandoneon concert with the North Iceland Symphony Orchestra in Akureyri on the 3th of June. The conductor of the symphony orchestra is Guðmundur Óli Gunnarsson who has been conducting the orchestra from the very beginning.
