Oh wow, I've been looking for this for a long time, Yoyo Ma playing Astor Piazzolla's beautiful Le Grand Tango. This piece was commissioned by the Russian cellist and conductor, Mstislav Rostropovich in the 80's, but he premiered this only in 1992.
This piece has become widely popular, it is something fresh, combining tango with jazz effects all within a classical three-part sonata form; it flirts with dissonance to create a stunningly original style that is passionate, sensuous, dark and terribly sad but brims with joie de vivre as well.
What is astonishing about Piazzolla is that he is claimed by more than one music genre: tango, jazz and classical. He is certainly not exalted by hard-core tangeros in Argentina who feel that he veered away from the standard form. But it is precisely this knack for improvisation that has appealed his music to jazz musicians, and his highly original style that combines Bartok and Stravinsky with Bach, jazz and holy crap! 70's kitsch won admirers from the classical genre, especially the cellists Yoyo Ma and Rostropovich and the violinist Gideon Kremer of which a violin transcription of this tango was prepared for him.
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