Martin Palmeri (1965-)
Misa a Buenos Aires "Misatango"

Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Milonga Carrieguera
Soledad
Milonga en Ay Menor

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Mariana Castello-Branco, soprano
Elke Janssens, soprano
Ana Sofia Ventura, soprano
Marie-Laure Coenjaerts, alto
Boris Kondov, alto
Emile Tack, alto
Yvann Drion, ténor
Michiel Haspeslagh, ténor
Guillaume Huybrechts, ténor
Adrian Kurth, basse
Andrés Soler Castano, basse
Mark Trigg, basse

Pablo Garcia, direction
Kris Belligh, direction
Ensemble Astoria

Jennifer Scavuzzo, voix
Isabelle Chardon, violon
Eric Chardon, violoncelle
Adrien Tyberghien, contrebasse
Léonardo Anglani, piano
Christophe Delporte, accordéon, bandonéon

Philippe Gérard, direction

Cette Missa a Buenos aires dite Missa Tango est l’œuvre du compositeur et chef d'orchestre Martin Palmeri. Composée pour chœur, orchestre, piano et bandonéon et créée en 1996, elle connut un grand succès et fut reprise dans de nombreux pays. Son style basé sur des rythmes syncopés et des harmonies propres au tango se conjugue aux formes traditionnelles de la musique classique dite savante. Ajoutons une partie dédiée à une mezzo-soprano et la présence d'un bandonéon qui participe à son exotisme. Côté livret l’œuvre reprend l'ordinaire de la messe latine dans ses six mouvements d'une longueur appréciable. Peu exigeante pour les voix et destinée à des ensembles amateurs, la partition possède une orchestration assez soignée et offre de beaux intermèdes instrumentaux (La fugue du Credo, début du Sanctus, Agnus Dei). En bonus, trois airs signés Astor Piazzolla magnifiques de sensualité, accompagnés au bandonéon, au piano et au violoncelle, nous replonge aux sources du Nuevo Tango. Saluons la ferveur de l’interprétation de l'ensemble Astoria. A découvrir d'urgence en ces temps moroses ! (Jérôme Angouillant)

MisaTango was composed between September 1995 and April 1996 by the Argentine composer Martín Palmeri. The first performance was given on August 17, 1996 at Teatro Broadway in Buenos Aires by the Orquesta Sinfonica nacional de Cuba, the Choir of the Law Faculty of the University of Buenos Aires and the Polyphonic Choir of the City of Vicente López (choirs to which the work is dedicated). MisaTango is a choral mass on Tango sounds. It is composed on the same movements as a mass in classical Latin, in which the harmonics and syncopated rhythms of tango are mixed. The composer also introduces the emblematic instrument of tango, the bandoneon, soloist alongside a string orchestra (violins, violas, cellos and double bass) and the piano. A mezzo-soprano solo part punctuates the work, responding to the mixed choir. The work gained much notoriety when it was performed in Rome in October 2013, in the Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola, during the International Festival of Music and Sacred Art in the Vatican. The MisaTango was chosen that year to pay tribute to the enthronement of the former cardinal of Buenos Aires who became Pope Francis in 2013, in reference to the Argentine origins of this former Tango dancer. "This work was written with the intention of offering my choirs a choral symphonic work that could bring us closer to the tango repertoire. Indeed, working with my choirs, I have found how difficult and complex the interpretation of traditional tangos by choirs is. This work is therefore a tribute to choirs and tango as well as to its creators. But it is also the result of a spontaneous production, the fruit of my experience as a choir director, pianist and tango arranger". (Martín Palmeri)