Astor Piazzolla:
Le grand tango
Ave Maria (arr. Dorken/Manaev)

Johanna Doderer:
Break on Through

Gordon Hamilton:
Romeo & Juliet in Sarajevo

Nikolai Kapustin:
Burlesque, Op. 97
Elegy, Op. 96
Nearly Waltz, Op. 98

Sounding stories of love: two of Astor Piazzolla's masterpieces form the background of this CD with cellist Konstantin Manaev and pianist Danae Dörken. At the beginning is Le Grand Tango, truly a "great tango" that almost seems like a symphonic poem in tango time. The end of the varied recording is a prayer of love: Piazzolla's instrumental Ave Maria was written in 1984 as part of the music for the film "Enrico IV" and was dedicated to the actress Claudia Cardinale. In the film it sounded as a spiritual "song without words".

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Recording: Kulturstall im Schloß Britz, Berlin, 19–21.10.2020. Konstantin Manaev plays a cello by Johannes Theodorus Cuypers from 1762 and a modern instrument by Yury Pochekin.