| Aníbal "Pichuco"Troilo July11, 1914 – May 18, 1975 |
We've just celebrated Anibal Troilo's 100th anniversary with a three-day tango party in Sun Valley, and of course I wanted to showcase El Pichuco's different sides in my music selection for the night :) In the end I got two very different tango tandas, a beautiful vals tanda and ... a lone milonga.
01. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "El ingeniero" 1952 3:25
02. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "Milonguero viejo" 1955 2:48
03. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "Nueve puntos" 1956 3:25
04. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Fama "Tormenta" 1939 2:38
05. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Fama "No me pregunten porque" 1939 2:51
06. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Fama "Al subir al bajar" 1939 3:05
Aces of valses:
07. Aníbal Troilo - Instrumental "Un placer" 1942 2:19
08. Aníbal Troilo - Floreal Ruiz "Romance de barrio" 1947 2:36
09. Aníbal Troilo - Floreal Ruiz, Edmundo Rivero "Lagrimitas de mi corazón" 1948 2:59
10. Lucio Demare - Juan Carlos Miranda "No te apures, Carablanca" 1942 3:29
11. Lucio Demare - Juan Carlos Miranda "Manana zarpa un barco" 1942 3:22
12. Lucio Demare - Juan Carlos Miranda "Din don" 1938 2:32
A rhythmic Troilo randa:
13. Aníbal Troilo - Instrumental "Milongueando en el cuarenta" 1941 2:33
14. Aníbal Troilo - Instrumental "El tamango" 1941 2:36
15. Aníbal Troilo - Instrumental "Guapeando" 1941 2:49
16. Carlos Di Sarli - Roberto Rufino "Pena Mulata" 1941 2:27
17. Carlos Di Sarli - Roberto Rufino "Cuando un viejo se enamora" 1942 2:14
18. Carlos Di Sarli - Roberto Rufino "La Mulateada" 1941 2:22
19. Enrique Rodríguez - Armando Moreno "Llorar por una mujer" 19412:47
20. Enrique Rodríguez - Armando Moreno "Cómo has cambiado pebeta" 1942 2:37
21. Enrique Rodríguez - Armando Moreno "El encopao" 1942 2:34
I often play Fresedo with Roberto Ray for the sheer sweetness of tango, but of course it leaves out the other flavors of Fresedo. This time I wanted to play Buscandote, a darker kind of a favorite, and - a real rarity among tangos - with vers libre lyrics. My first hunch was, of course, to pair it with other Fresedo-Ruiz tangos ... and, as it often happens with one-of-a-kind recordings, I was left wondering if should have looked for its tanda mates elsewhere...
22. Osvaldo Fresedo - Ricardo Ruiz "Cuartito azul" 1939 2:45
23. Osvaldo Fresedo - Ricardo Ruiz "Y no puede ser (2)" 1939 2:26
24. Osvaldo Fresedo - Ricardo Ruiz "Buscandote" 1941 2:49
25. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental "Amor y celo" 1936-09-03 2:21
26. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental "Valsecito de Antes" 1937 2:19
27. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental "Pabellón de las rosas" 1935 2:54
These three Troilo's from the same year as the instrumentals I played before, yet they have a different quality, more stretchy, more dramatic ... and if I had a choice of playing just one Troilo tanda, then this would be the one:
28. Aníbal Troilo - Francisco Fiorentino "El bulín de la calle Ayacucho" 1941 2:30
29. Aníbal Troilo - Francisco Fiorentino "Maragata" 1941 2:46
30. Aníbal Troilo - Francisco Fiorentino "Tabernero" 1941 3:18
31. Ángel D'Agostino - Ángel Vargas "A Quién Le Puede Importar" 1945 3:11
32. Ángel D'Agostino - Ángel Vargas "Ahora No Me Conocés" 1941 2:35
33. Ángel D'Agostino - Ángel Vargas, Julian Centeya "Café "Dominguez"" 1955 2:59
I must admit that Anibal Troilo doesn't strike me as a Great Milonga Musician - he's got some nice milongas (Papa Baltazar comes into my mind) but the best of them have different tempos and different textures and don't really fit together all that well into a tanda. So I opted for a mixed-orchestras milonga tanda - the one Troilo there must sound instantly and irresistibly familiar to most Russians for its similarities with the musical theme from a classic cartoon of our childhood, the 1965 "Boniface's Summer Break". Enjoy!
34. Anibal Troilo Francisco Fiorentino "Mano Brava" 1941 2:24
35. Rodolfo Biagi - Carlos Saavedra "Por la huella" 1948 2:47
36. Julio de Caro - Hector Farrel "Saca chispas" 1938 2:32
37. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos, Lita Morales y Romeo Gavio "Sinfonia de Arrabal" 1940 3:07
38. Donato, Edgardo - Horacio Lagos "El Adios" 1938 3:09
39. Donato, Edgardo - Romeo Gavio y Lita Morales "Mi Serenata" 1940 3:02
40. Alfredo de Angelis - Carlos Dante "Fumando espero" 1956 3:24
41. Alfredo de Angelis - Instrumental "El Tango Club" 1957 2:40
42. Alfredo de Angelis "Pavadita 1958" 2:53
43. Pedro Láurenz - Alberto Podestá "Todo" 1943 2:37
44. Pedro Láurenz - Alberto Podestá "Garua" 1943 3:09
45. Osvaldo Pugliese - Instrumental "El monito" 1945 2:19
46. Osvaldo Pugliese - Instrumental "Recuerdo" 1944 2:54
47. Osvaldo Puglieses - Roberto Chanel "Rondando Tu Esquina" 1945 2:49
48. Pedro Láurenz y Pedro Maffia - Instrumental "La cumparsita" 1926 3:01
49. Quartango "Androgyne" 1999 4:30
50. Arabesque "Midnight Dancer" 3:42
