Sunday, June 5, 2016

Canaro or Lomuto aren't competition music...

Hats off to MsHedgehog for a great analysis of tango tracks used in the recent Mundial competitons finals.

You really should read the analysis on her blog; all I wanted to do was to make her youtube links clickable in the list which follows.

Just in case, if you wonder what this list is about. It's all great music, as selected by the Argentine aficionados, but it isn't organized into tandas, Rather, each "ronda" allows couples to showcase their skills in rhythmic, dramatic, and soft or intermediate lyrical music (not necessarily in this order, but always in a set of 3 basic emotional flavors).

MsHedgehod notes that the organizers never picked Canaro, or Lomuto, or OTV / Carabelli, or anything older than 1934, for that matter. Di Sarli, D'Arienzo, Pugliese, Troilo and Fresedo made "The Big 5 Orchestras" - but not a single Fresedo with Roberto Ray made the cut. Not a single Pugliese with Chanel. Only one vocal track of Di Sarli among his many dramatic and rhythmic instrumentals. My take on it that the organizers might have included the music which wasn't merely great, but which was also exaggeratedly dynamic / dramatic / extreme - that the selection reflects the need for the strongest flavors.This may also explain a disproportionate share of the late 1950s music.

Several tracks appear year after year - Troilo's 'Te aconsejo que me olvides' 1941 actually makes the list 3 times!

Mundial 2015 Ronda1 Track1 D'Agostino - Vargas 'Tres Esquinas' 1941
Mundial 2015 Ronda1 Track2 D'Arienzo - Echagüe 'No Mientas' 1938
Mundial 2015 Ronda1 Track3 Di Sarli - Instrumental 'Indio Manso' 1958
Mundial 2015 Ronda2 Track1 D'Arienzo - Maure 'Lilian' 1944
Mundial 2015 Ronda2 Track2 Di Sarli - Instrumental 'Shusheta' 1940
Mundial 2015 Ronda2 Track3 Pugliese - Instrumental 'El Monito' 1945
Mundial 2015 Ronda3 Track1 Fresedo - Instrumental 'Tigre Viejo' 1934
Mundial 2015 Ronda3 Track2 D'Arienzo - Instrumental 'El Puntazo' 1952
Mundial 2015 Ronda3 Track3 Di Sarli - Instrumental 'Milonguero Viejo' 1951
Mundial 2015 Ronda4 Track1 Tanturi - Castillo 'Recuerdo malevo' 1941
Mundial 2015 Ronda4 Track2 Troilo - Fiorentino 'Te aconsejo que me olvides' 1941
Mundial 2015 Ronda4 Track3 Pugliese - Instrumental 'La Tupungatina' 1952
Mundial 2014 Ronda1 Track1 Di Sarli - Instrumental 'Cuidado con las 50' 1942
Mundial 2014 Ronda1 Track2 Caló - Iriarte 'Nada' 1944
Mundial 2014 Ronda1 Track3 Troilo - Fiorentino 'Te aconsejo que me olvides' 1941
Mundial 2014 Ronda2 Track1 Pugliese - Instrumental 'La guitarrita' 1954
Mundial 2014 Ronda2 Track2 Fresedo - Ruiz 'Buscándote' 1941
Mundial 2014 Ronda2 Track3 D'Arienzo - Echagüe 'El nene del abasto' 1951
Mundial 2014 Ronda3 Track1 Gobbi - Instrumental 'Si sos brujo' 1953
Mundial 2014 Ronda3 Track2 Demare - Berón 'Una Emocion' 1943
Mundial 2014 Ronda3 Track3 Tanturi - Castillo 'La Vida es corta' 1941
Mundial 2014 Ronda4 Track1 Troilo - Instrumental 'La Bordona' 1958
Mundial 2014 Ronda4 Track2 D'Agostino - Vargas 'Tres Esquinas' 1941
Mundial 2014 Ronda4 Track3 D'Arienzo - Maure 'Dime mi amor' 1941
Mundial 2013 Ronda1 Track1 Donato - Lagos 'El adiós' 1938
Mundial 2013 Ronda1 Track2 Di Sarli - Rufino 'Lo pasado, pasó' 1940
Mundial 2013 Ronda1 Track3 Gobbi - Instrumental 'A Orlando Goñi' 1949
Mundial 2013 Ronda1 Track4 Pugliese - Maciel 'Remembranzas' 1956
Mundial 2013 Ronda2 Track1 Demare - Miranda 'Mañana zarpa un barco' 1942
Mundial 2013 Ronda2 Track2 D'Arienzo - Echagüe 'Pensalo bien' 1938
Mundial 2013 Ronda2 Track3 Pugliese - Instrumental 'Gallo ciego' 1959
Mundial 2013 Ronda3 Track1 Fresedo - Instrumental 'Tigre Viejo' 1934
Mundial 2013 Ronda3 Track2 Troilo - Fiorentino 'Te aconsejo que me olvides' 1941
Mundial 2013 Ronda3 Track3 Di Sarli - Instrumental 'Ensueños' 1943
Mundial 2013 Ronda4 Track1 Troilo - Marino 'Tres Amigos' 1944
Mundial 2013 Ronda4 Track2 D'Arienzo - Echagüe 'Mandria' 1939
Mundial 2013 Ronda4 Track3 Pugliese - Instrumental 'Nochero Soy' 1956
Mundial 2012 Ronda1 Track1 Di Sarli - Instrumental 'Ensueños' 1943
Mundial 2012 Ronda1 Track2 Fresedo - Ruiz 'Vamos, corazón' 1941
Mundial 2012 Ronda1 Track3 Tanturi - Instrumental 'Comparsa Criolla' 1941
Mundial 2012 Ronda2 Track1 Pugliese - Moran 'Maleza' 1945
Mundial 2012 Ronda2 Track2 D'Arienzo - Echagüe 'La Madrugada' 1944
Mundial 2012 Ronda2 Track3 Rodriguez - Moreno 'En la buena y en la mala' 1940
Mundial 2012 Ronda3 Track1 Troilo - Fiorentino 'Pa' que bailen los muchachos' 1942
Mundial 2012 Ronda3 Track2 Laurenz - Instrumental 'Arrabal' 1937
Mundial 2012 Ronda3 Track3 Di Sarli - Instrumental 'El Retirao' 1939
Mundial 2012 Ronda4 Track1 Donato - Lagos 'El adiós' 1938
Mundial 2012 Ronda4 Track2 Troilo - Instrumental 'La Maleva' 1942
Mundial 2012 Ronda4 Track3 D'Arienzo - Instrumental 'Por que razón' 1939

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