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DIGITAL CONCERTSCELEBRATING PIAZZOLLA: 100 YEARS OF TANGO This concert forms part of the CBSO Miniature Collection, and was filmed at CBSO Centre, Birmingham

El Ultimo Tango

Eduardo Vassallo – Cello Mark Goodchild – Double Bass Mark O’Brien – Saxophones Nicolas Bricht – Flute John Turville – Piano

Piazzolla arr. Mark Goodchild Libertango 4’

Piazzolla arr. Mark Goodchild Histoire du Tango Cafe 1930 • Nightclub 1960 • Concert d’aujourd’hui 13.30’

Piazzolla arr. Mark Goodchild Preludio 7’

Piazzolla arr. Mark Goodchild Estaciones Porteñas (The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires): Verano (Summer) • Invierno (Winter) 10’

J.S. Bach arr. Mark Goodchild Bachissimo (Variaciones de Goldberg) Variations I, III and XII 9’

Piazzolla arr. Mark Goodchild Angel Suite Muerte del Angel (Death of the Angel) • Resurrección del Angel (Resurrection of the Angel) 10.30’

Tango was born in the backstreets of Buenos Aires, but Astor Piazzolla took it to the world – writing music that came from the soul and spoke straight to the heart. For the CBSO’s Argentinean-born principal cellist Eduardo Vassallo, it’s more than just a passion – it’s a family affair. His father played with Piazzolla, and for two decades Eduardo’s ensemble El Último Tango has been bringing the style, the sophistication and the haunting melodies of this extraordinary music to audiences across the UK. Now, in the month that Piazzolla would have celebrated his 100th birthday, they salute the creator of Nuevo Tango, in a concert that explores Piazzolla’s sense of tradition, his love of Bach and – of course – some of the 20th century’s most unforgettable tunes. This concert was filmed at CBSO Centre in March 2021.

This concert is available to view online from Tuesday 30 March to Wednesday 30 June 2021

The CBSO’s digital work has been made possible thanks to generous support from David and Sandra Burbidge, Jamie and Alison Justham, Chris and Jane Loughran, John Osborn, and Arts Council England’s Culture Recovery Fund.

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Astor Piazzolla (1921-1922)

Celebrating Piazzolla: 100 Years of Tango

“I can’t provide anyone with inventiveness; I can simply provide the liberty to read, to listen, to see, to understand” said the great French composer, conductor and teacher Nadia Boulanger. But as a composition teacher, the “liberty” that she gave her pupils empowered some of the most striking and original voices in 20th century music. Astor Pantaléon Piazzolla (1921-92) was born on 11 March 1921 in Mar del Plata, Argentina – the son of a bicycle dealer, himself the son of an Italian immigrant. When Astor was four, the family moved to New York; he would never forget the working-class communities of the Lower East Side.

“Everything gets under the skin” he said, decades later. “My rhythmic accents are similar to those of the Jewish popular music I heard at weddings”. When he was seven or eight he learned to box; not long afterwards, his father bought him a second hand bandoneón – the big, accordion-like instrument typical of Argentine dance bands. By the time he was in his mid teens the family had returned to Argentina and he was performing tangos professionally.

So the elements were all there: the youthful musicality, those diverse roots, that alertness to the popular music he heard around him, at home and on the streets. In time, he would study composition with Argentina’s leading classical composer Alberto Ginastera: but his encounter with Boulanger in Paris, in 1954, was the moment when everything came together. He recalled their first lessons in his memoirs:

When I met her I showed her my kilos of symphonies and sonatas. She started to read them and suddenly came out with a horrible comment: ‘It’s very well written’. And stopped… After a long while she said ‘Here you are like Stravinsky, like Bartók, like Ravel, but do you know? I can’t find Piazzolla in this’… And I was ashamed to tell her I was a tango musician. Finally, I confessed and she asked me to play some bars of a tango of my own. She suddenly opened her eyes, took my hand and told me: ‘You idiot, that’s Piazzolla!’ And I took all the music I’d composed, ten years of my life, and sent it to hell in two seconds.

The tale of Piazzolla’s rise from tango revolutionary to cult favourite and (finally) global phenomenon is for another time and another place – for now, his music is the most eloquent way to tell the story. And there’s no more striking way to dive in than right in the middle, with the zesty harmonies and driving, angular rhythms of Libertango. The year was 1974; Piazzolla, seeking peace and a stimulating environment in which to compose, had moved to Rome for three years – where his Italian agent Aldo Pagani urged him to write short, marketable new pieces.

Piazzolla objected – Beethoven, he retorted, preferred to think big. “Beethoven died deaf and poor” replied Pagani, and Libertango became the title track on a new album that got rave reviews (surely a first) from both Gramophone and Playboy: “eight magnificent tangos that tell a girl what’s on your mind”. For Piazzolla, though, it was “a song of liberty”, his salute to a fresh start in a new place, full of new ideas.

It’s also the essence of nuevo tango – the jazz-influenced, ultra-modern reinvention of the old Argentinean dance that came to define Piazzolla’s reputation. His innovations could be controversial – especially in Buenos Aires, where he came under continual attack – but everything he composed was rooted in a profound understanding of the tango’s working-class roots and proud heritage. Histoire du Tango (1986) began as a suite for flute and guitar, composed for the Liège International Guitar Festival. Each piece is a miniature snapshot of the tango at a different moment in its century-long odyssey: beginning in a Buenos Aires bordello in 1900. Piazzolla himself described its journey:

Cafe, 1930: People stopped dancing as they did in 1900, preferring instead simply to listen. It became more musical, and more romantic. This tango has undergone total transformation: the movements are slower, with new and often melancholy harmonies. Tango orchestras come to consist of two violins, two concertinas, a piano, and a bass. The tango is sometimes sung as well.

Night Club, 1960: This is a time of rapidly expanding international exchange, and the tango evolves again as Brazil and Argentina come together in Buenos Aires. The bossa nova and nuevo tango are moving to the same beat. Audiences rush to the night clubs to listen earnestly to the new tango. This marks a revolution and a profound alteration in some of the original tango forms.

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Concert d’aujourd’hui: Certain concepts in tango music become intertwined with modern music. Bartók, Stravinsky and other composers reminisce to the tune of tango music. This [is] today’s tango, and the tango of the future as well.

Preludio dates from 1953 – originally a classical piano solo, but with an unmistakable undercurrent of the dance. Piazzolla clearly never sent this one “to hell”. But the Estaciones Porteñas (The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires – “porteño” being the nickname for a Buenos Airean; the equivalent of “Brummie”) date from the late 1960s and early 1970s, a time, he said, when “I realized just how fundamental it was to reach the big public. Everybody is whistling Piazzolla”. The four tangos emerged one by one in the late 1960s. Verano (Summer) was originally part of a score for a stage play, Melenita de Oro by Alberto Rodríguez Muñoz – the commission slipped Piazzolla’s mind and he wrote it (literally) overnight in August 1965. He composed Invierno (Winter) in 1970 for his Quinteto of violin, piano, electric guitar, bass and bandonéon, and the full Estaciones Porteñas was performed to a packed house at the Teatro Regina in Buenos Aires on the rainy evening of 19 May 1970. Alert as ever, he wove traces of Vivaldi into the closing bars.

Asked to name his favourite composers, Piazzolla singled out Brahms, Ravel, Stravinsky, Berg and sometimes Hindemith – but there was one constant: Johann Sebastian Bach. “I fell in love with Bach, I went crazy”, he said, recalling his earliest musical experiences; his friends and family remembered with awe his “incredible” performances of Bach on the bandonéon. For him, Bach was the supreme instinctive musician: “Bach composed fugues because he was intuitive, not because he was a brilliant egghead”, he remarked in 1968. Bachissimo, an arrangement for tango ensemble of a selection of Bach’s Goldberg Variations by CBSO bass player, Mark Goodchild, is a salute to one composer in the spirit of another. We hope Piazzolla would have approved.

Piazzolla’s music, says the Argentinean choreographer Maximiliano Guerra, “is celestial and angelic and at the same time seductive, sensual and down to earth. It’s rooted in the earth, in fact. It’s the knife, the fight, the passion, the sex, the love, the hatred. It has everything. It’s magic.” It’s possible to read too much into Piazzolla’s titles, but his “Angel” sequence emerged from another play by Alberto Rodríguez Muñoz: Tango del ángel, a 1962 drama in which angel takes up residence in a Buenos Aires apartment block and is killed in a knife fight. The titles of the two final pieces in his four movement Angel Suite are self-explanatory – and every note the work of a composer who joked, after a great melody came to him, that “perhaps I was surrounded by angels”. Around the same time, he also composed a contrasting Diablo suite – but with Astor Piazzolla, the Devil never has an absolute monopoly on the best tunes.

Programme note © Richard Bratby

“Piazzolla’s music is celestial and angelic and at the same time seductive, sensual and down to earth. It’s rooted in the earth, in fact. It’s the knife, the fight, the passion, the sex, the love, the hatred. It has everything. It’s magic.”

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THE PERFORMERS

Eduardo VassalloCello

Hailing from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Eduardo began playing the cello at six years old. His father was a professional bass player and took him to rehearsals and concerts from a very young age. Eduardo says, “one day he asked me if I would like to study cello and I said yes – in the space of a week I had my first cello and my first lesson. I’ve never looked back!”

Eduardo studied with Nicolas Finoli in Buenos Aires, with Radu Aldulescu and Pierre Fournier in Switzerland and with Boris Pergamenschikow in Germany.

Before he joined the CBSO Eduardo was section leader cello of the National Symphony Orchestra in Argentina, a founder member of the National Radio String Quartet of Argentina and a member of the Camerata Lysy in Switzerland where he met his wife, and CBSO Violist, Catherine Bower.

As Section Leader Cello Eduardo says he has many highlights “but the Simon Rattle and Andris Nelsons years were very special”.

Outside of the CBSO, Eduardo enjoys listening to and playing tango with the El Ultimo Tango quintet, playing chamber music and solo pieces and watching football from around the world. He is also involved in several festivals in South America, some of which involve working with youngsters from deprived backgrounds. He also has his own Latin American cello festival every two years in Buenos Aires.

Eduardo is supported at the CBSO by Mr M P & Mrs J Adams.

Mark GoodchildDouble Bass

Mark comes from a family of music hall artistes. Growing up in West London he started to learn the bass guitar aged 14. He was then encouraged to take up the double bass by a local music teacher, and went on to study at the Royal College of Music.

Before joining the CBSO in 1982 Mark freelanced in London playing both classical and jazz. He has retained links to the jazz world and regularly appears with leading UK musicians and visiting players from the USA. Mark is a founder member of El Ultimo Tango and has also created several of his own ensembles such as Ellingtonia Septet and Broad St Breakdown. He also writes and arranges music for CBSO education projects including Project Remix.

In terms of highlights during his time with the Orchestra Mark says “I enjoy playing rhythm and electric bass on CBSO Friday night shows. But nothing can take the place of being part of an 8 bass section in a symphony orchestra playing full volume!”

Mark is supported at the CBSO by an anonymous donor.

Mark O’BrienSaxophone

Born in Poole, Dorset, Mark became interested in music at a very young age and at 16 went on to study the alto saxophone, before taking up the clarinet. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Keith Pearson, Richard Addison, Michael Whight and Acker Bilk. He left in his third year of Royal Academy of Music to join the CBSO under Simon Rattle as Principal Bass Clarinet.

Mark is a founder member of the Little Big Time Band, and also performs with other groups including the BCMG, El Ultimo Tango and the Berkley Salon Ensemble.

Mark is supported at the CBSO by John Bartlett and Sheila Beesley.

Nicolas BrichtFlute

Nicolas was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he began his musical studies. He later studied at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and graduated with a first class degree.

Nicolas has freelanced with, amongst others, the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, London Mozart Players, Northern Sinfonia, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, English Chamber Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. He has also played regularly in the West End productions of Phantom of the Opera and Les Misérables.

Nicolas has played chamber music concerts in the UK, Spain, France, Germany Japan and Argentina.

He teaches the flute at the Royal College of Music Junior Department and is Head of Wind and Brass at King’s College School, Wimbledon.

John TurvillePiano

John is one of the leading pianists and educators on the UK scene. A graduate of Cambridge and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, he has since received numerous awards, including the MOJO #3 Jazz Album of the Year (2012), ‘Best Album’ in the Parliamentary Awards 2011, ‘Best Instrumentalist’ in the 2010 London Jazz Awards, the 2009 Promoter’s Choice Award (PRS), and was a semi-finalist in the Martial Solal competition in 2010. He has worked and recorded with many of Europe’s leading jazz and tango groups, including Tim Garland’s Lighthouse Trio and Acoustic Triangle, the Tony Kofi/Alan Barnes Quintet, Karios 4tet, Gilad Atzmon, El Ultimo Tango, Transtango, the London Tango Orchestra, London Jazz Orchestra, Guillermo Rozenthuler, Nate James, Matt Ridley Quartet (feat. Jason Yarde), Natacha Atlas, US3 and Sola Akingbola (Jamiroquai). His own trio has released two acclaimed albums on the F-IRE label and toured widely throughout the UK and Europe.

John is also an experienced composer and arranger.

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MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS

EXCEPTIONAL SUPPORTWe are particularly grateful for theexceptional support of the following people this year:

£50,000+David and Sandra BurbidgeAlison & Jamie Justham (*David Vines)Barry and Frances KirkhamChris & Jane Loughran

(*Jonathan Martindale)Maurice Millward (*Chris Yates)John Osborn in support of the Osborn

Music DirectorshipClive & Sylvia Richards Charity(Principal Supporter of the CBSO’s

work with young people)Jerry Sykes in support of keynote

concert programming (*Catherine Ardagh-Walter)

£20,000+Peter How

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Dolores (*Richard Blake)

SYMPHONY CIRCLE (£5,000+)John Cole & Jennie Howe

(*Peter Campbell-Kelly)Lord Digby & Lady Patricia Jones

of BirminghamGill & Jonathan Evans

(*Charlotte Skinner)Len Hughes & Jacquie Blake

(*Anthony Alcock)Sue & Graeme Sloanand our other anonymous supporters.

CONCERTO CIRCLE (£2,500+)Viv & Hazel Astling (*Graham Sibley)The Barwell Charitable TrustAllan & Jennifer Buckle

(*Jonathan Holland)Mrs Jayne CadburyJill S Cadbury (*Julia Åberg)Isabel, Peter and Christopher in loving

memory of Ernest Churcher (*Elspeth Dutch)

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(*Catherine Bower)and our other anonymous supporters.

The following players are supported by anonymous members of theOverture, Concerto and Symphony Circles, to whom we are very grateful:Mark GoodchildJoanna PattonMark PhillipsAdam Römer

OVERTURE CIRCLE (£1,000+)Mike & Jan Adams (*Eduardo Vassallo)Katherine Aldridge in memory of ChrisMichael Allen in memory of YvonneRoger & Angela AllenMiss J L Arthur (*Julian Walters)Kiaran AsthanaMr M K AyersMr & Mrs S V BarberJohn Bartlett & Sheila Beesley

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of JulietRob PageSir Michael and Lady Joan PerryDr John PetersonJulie & Tony Phillips (*Elizabeth Fryer)Rosalyn & Philip PhillipsClive & Cynthia PriorIan RichardsPeter & Shirley RobinsonMark and Amanda SmithPam and Alistair SmithWilliam SmithColin Squire obeMr M & Mrs S A SquiresBrenda SumnerTenors of the CBSO Chorus

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Baltimore Friends of the CBSOProfessor Dame Sandra Dawson dbeAnd other donors who prefer to remain anonymous.

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BOARDChair David Burbidge cbe dlDeputy Chair David RoperElected Trustees Tony Davis Jane Fielding Susan Foster Joe Godwin Emily Ingram Sundash Jassi Chris Loughran Lucy Williams

Birmingham City Council Nominated Trustees Cllr Sir Albert Bore Cllr Alex Yip

Player Nominated Trustees Elspeth Dutch Helen Edgar

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CBSO DEVELOPMENT TRUSTChair Chris Loughran dl

Trustees Charles Barwell obe Gordon Campbell Wally Francis John Osborn cbe David Pett

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CAMPAIGN BOARDChair David Burbidge cbe, dl Susan Foster Peter How Jamie Justham Her Honour Frances Kirkham cbe Chris Loughran dl John Osborn cbe

Honorary Medical Advisors:

Dr Rod MacRorie. Association of Medical Advisors to British Orchestras/BAPAM

Professor Sir Keith Porter. Consultant, University Hospitals Birmingham

PLAYERS’ COMMITTEEChair Jo Patton Vice Chair Mark Phillips Richard Watkin Andy Herbert Kirsty Lovie Colette Overdijk Heather Bradshaw Matthew Hardy* Recipients of the CBSO Long Service Award † Part-time employee # Volunteer

MANAGEMENTChief Executive Stephen Maddock obe*PA to Chief Executive Niki Longhurst*†

Head of Orchestra Management (Maternity Cover) Adrian RutterOrchestra Manager Claire Dersley*Assistant Orchestra Manager Alan JohnsonPlatform Manager Peter Harris*Assistant Platform Manager Robert Howard Librarian Jack Lovell-Huckle Co-Librarian William Lucas

Head of Artistic Planning Anna MelvillePlanning & Tours Manager Hannah MuddimanProject Manager Claire GreenwoodAssistant Planning Manager Maddi Belsey-Day

Director of Learning and Engagement Lucy GalliardLearning & Participation Manager Katie LucasCommunity Projects Officer Adele FranghiadiYouth Ensembles Officer Rebecca NicholasSchools Officer Carolyn Burton Chorus Manager Poppy Howarth Children’s & Youth Chorus Officer Ella McNameeResearch Assistant Adam Nagel*†

Marketing Consultant Katy Raines Director of Marketing and Communications Gareth Beedie Interim Head of Marketing Maria HowesCRM and Insight Manager Melanie Ryan*†Publications Manager Jane Denton†Digital Content Producer Hannah Blake-Fathers Marketing Volunteer Christine Midgley*#

Director of Development Simon FaircloughHead of Philanthropy Francesca Spickernell Membership & Appeals Manager Eve Vines†Events & Relationship Management Executive Megan BradshawDevelopment Operations Officer Melanie AdeyDevelopment Administrator Bethan McKnight† Trust Fundraiser Fiona Fox

Director of Finance Annmarie WallisFinance Manager Dawn DohertyPayroll Officer Lindsey Bhagania†Assistant Accountant Graham IrvingFinance Assistant (Cost) Susan PriceHR Manager Hollie DunsterCBSO Centre Manager Niki Longhurst*†Technical and Facilities Supervisor Tomoyuki MatsuoAssistant CBSO Centre Manager Peter Clarke*Receptionist Sev Kucukogullari†

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