April is Edgardo Donato's birthday month and couldn't resist celebrating it by surreptitiously playing lots of tandas of my favorite orchestra: 5 sets in 3 hours (early masterpieces of Donato-Zerrillo, two mature period tango tandas - one more dynamic / semi-bitter and one more romantic / sweet, plus two tandas of somewhat less commonly played valses and milongas). As usually the practica started from adding set after set of "class-appropriate" music but this time I did it in a separate player window and must have not saved the final list ... I'm pretty much sure that I played some of the more moderately paced instrumental D'Arienzos, and more Di Sarli's too.
01. Osvaldo Fresedo - Instrumental "Poliya" 1939 2:31
02. Osvaldo Fresedo - Instrumental "El Once (A divertirse)" 1945 2:43
03. Osvaldo Fresedo - Instrumental "Derecho viejo" 1941 2:31
04. Osvaldo Fresedo - Instrumental "Pimienta" 1939 2:52
05. Osvaldo Fresedo - Instrumental "Arrabalero" 1939 2:32
06. Carlos Di Sarli Alberto Podesta "Junto a tu corazon" 3:00
07. Carlos Di Sarli Alberto Podesta "Tu!...El cielo y tu!" 2:59
08. Quinteto Don Pancho - Instrumental "El Choclo"
09. Quinteto Don Pancho - Instrumental "Champagne tango" 1938 2:30
10. Quinteto Don Pancho - Instrumental "Loca" 1938 2:57
11. Edgardo Donato - Hugo Del Carril "El vals de los recuerdos" 1935 2:18
12. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos, Romeo Gavioli, Lita Morales "Estrellita mía" 1940 2:36
13. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos, Lita Morales, Romeo Gavioli "Noches correntinas" 1939 2:18
14. Ángel D'Agostino - Ángel Vargas "Adiós Arrabal" 3:10
15. Ángel D'Agostino - Ángel Vargas "El Yacaré" 3:09
16. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos "Me voy a Baraja" 1936 2:30
17. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos "Te busco" 1941 2:26
18. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos "Soy mendigo" 1939 2:34
19. Carlos Di Sarli - Roberto Rufino "La Mulateada" 1941 2:22
20. Carlos Di Sarli - Alberto Podestá "Entre Pitada Y Pitada" 1942 2:33
21. Carlos Di Sarli - Roberto Rufino "Zorzal" 1941 2:40
22. Ricardo Malerba - Orlando Medina "Embrujamiento" 1943 2:52
23. Ricardo Malerba - Antonio Maida "Encuentro" 1944 2:20
24. Ricardo Malerba - Orlando Medina "Gitana Rusa" 1942 2:47
"Una Vez" delivers considerably stronger drive then the OTV pieces from the same period I matched it with, and in the end I thought that it worked well - the final piece of a tanda with a punch. But an alternative option would have been to tap into the earlier "versions" of OTV...
25. Orquesta Típica Víctor - Alberto Carol "Bajo el Cono Azul" 1944 2:43
26. Orquesta Típica Víctor "Senda de Abrojos" 1943 2:18
27. Orquesta Típica Víctor - Ortega Del Cerro "Una Vez" 1943 3:22
28. Los Provincianos - Alberto Gomez "Samaritana (vals)" 1932 2:58
29. Los Provincianos - Luis Diaz "A Tu Memoria, Madrecita (vals)" 1934 2:45
30. Orquesta Típica Víctor (dir. Federico Scorticati) - Carlos Lafuente "Intima" 1940 2:28
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| "The 9 Aces of Tango", from Michael Krugman's blog |
Edgardo Donato, who grew up and became a violinist in Montevideo, Uruguay, has already laid claim to tango fame in the early 1920s with his compositions (the most famous of which, the 1925 "A media luz", is among the most-played tangos ever). But he convened his first tango orchestra in Montevideo only in the age of 30, in collaboration with a fellow Uruguayan violin player, 25 years old Roberto Zerrillo (who has just returned from a stint with the Parisian tango orchestras). Soon, Donato-Zerrillo orchestra took BsAs by storm! (They also recorded under Brunswick label). "Se va la vida" is their most famous composition together, and Edgardo Donato kept re-recording it. Still I love the 1928 original the most! The lyrics, a carpe-diem kind of a sage advice to a girl to live her life without fears or regrets, in a juicy lunfardo slang, were written by "Luis Mario Castro", a nom-de-plume of a female poet, María Luisa Carnelli (so few women wrote tango lyrics ... and even those who did may have been compelled to hide behind male identities!)
31. Orquesta Donato-Zerrillo - Luis Diaz "Adelina" 1929 2:58
32. Orquesta Donato-Zerrillo - Luis Diaz "Como Lo Quiso Dios" 1929 2:46
33. Orquesta Donato-Zerrillo - Luis Diaz "Se va la vida" 1928 2:55
A DJ's misstep here, with selecting sets solely by memory without listening. I wanted to add a dramatic set after a slow / primal energetic Guardia Vieja tanda, and I picked Canaros recorded nearly a decade later - only to be surprised how similar they felt and how little contrast was there between the two otherwise excellent tandas...
34. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Yo tambien sone" 1936 3:09
35. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Mi noche triste" 1936 2:45
36. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Condena (S.O.S.)" 1937 2:39
"Randona" is an interesting side story in Donato's orchestra, a female voice in a duet with a male voice which they first tried in a pioneering innovation in 1934, before employing Lita's voice for an even greater effect in duets and trios (compare the opening and the closing milongas of the following tanda). Only Randona wasn't a woman - the voice belonged to Armando Julio Piovani, a violinist of the orchestra, one of the original "9 Aces" above.
37. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos y Randona "Sácale punta" 1938 2:18
38. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos "La mimada" 1939 2:25
39. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos, Lita Morales "Repique del corazón" 1940 2:14
A birthday vals for Brian!
40. Francisco Canaro - Charlo "Yo no se que me han hecho tus ojos" 1931 3:11
More rhythmic Tanturi's than my usual selections, but since I am not playing Biagi, or Enrique Rodriguez, tonight, it makes a natural choice!
41. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo "La vida es corta" 1941 2:25
42. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo "Así Se Baila El Tango" 1942 2:34
43. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo "Recuerdo Malevo" 1941 2:33
44. Pedro Laurenz - Hector Farrel "Abandono" 1937 2:32
45. Pedro Laurenz - Alberto Podesta "Recien" 1943 2:43
46. Pedro Laurenz - Alberto Podesta "Garua" 1943 3:09
47. Aníbal Troilo - Instrumental "Un placer" 1942 2:19
48. Aníbal Troilo - Floreal Ruiz "Romance de barrio" 1947 2:36
49. Aníbal Troilo - Floreal Ruiz, Alberto Marino "Palomita blanca" 1944 3:21
50. Lucio Demare - Juan Carlos Miranda "Manana zarpa un barco" 1942 3:22
51. Lucio Demare - Horacio Quintan "Torrente" 1944 3:10
52. Lucio Demare - Horacio Quintan "Solamente ella" 1944 3:15
53. Lucio Demare - Horacio Quintan "Igual que un bandoneon" 1945 3:02
54. Carlos di Sarli - Roberto Rufino "Charlemos" 1941 2:30
55. Carlos di Sarli - Roberto Rufino "Tristeza Marina" 1943 3:09
56. Carlos di Sarli - Roberto Rufino "Adiós te vas" 1943 2:30
57. Edgardo Donato - Romeo Gavioli "La Melodía Del Corazón" 1940 3:18
58. Edgardo Donato - Lita Morales, Romeo Gavioli "Mi Serenata" 1940 3:02
59. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos, Romeo Gavioli, Lita Morales "Sinfonía De Arrabal" 1940 3:07
60. Osvaldo Pugliese - Jorge Maciel "Remembranza" 1956 3:41
61. Osvaldo Pugliese - Roberto Chanel "Rondando tu esquina" 1945 2:48
62. Osvaldo Pugliese "Recuerdo" 1944 2:39
63. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental "La cumparsita" 1951 3:49
64. Goran Bregovic "Maki Maki" 2009 3:33
(64 total)
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