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BBC Proms: The 8 Seasons of Buenos Aires

The seventeenth century meets the twentieth century in this special performance from the BBC Proms. Acknowledged as the master of Tango, Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla’s ‘The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires’ were written as four independent pieces between 1965 and 1969, and were collated in the 1990s by Russian arranger Leonid Desyatnikov. Scored for a quintet of violin, piano, electric guitar, double bass and bandoneon, Piazzolla’s work is a whimsical travelogue of his beloved city and is redolent of Vivaldi’s legendary ‘The Four Seasons’ through a string of musical quotations. Though separated across time, these two works form a delightful pair in this concert by the Academy of St Martin in the Fields under musical director Joshua Bell, who ‘played with his customary sweetness of tone throughout’ (The Guardian).

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