Alexej Gerassimez: Piazonore
Piazonore is composed in 2014 for jazz Vibraphone and Piano when Alexej
Gerassimez first started writing Piazonore for vibraphone and piano, it was originally going to be an arrangement of Piazzolla's Libertango. Along the way, that idea shifted over to improvising and restructuring the material of this piece. The composer tell that "Though I drew the spirit of piazzollas style of music with me, I escaped and stepped into a new country"
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He also tell that Piazonore is the result of adventurous process and there is no
longer a clear resemblance to it’s original form of a tango. at last The composer tell that "Don’t take it too seriously and have fun."
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Libertango by Astor Piazzolla
Libertango is the most Popular work by Piazzolla, which was published in 1974 Many artists have
recorded it; Gracie Jones, for instance, had a successful hit with it in the eighties (with lyrics in English)(Löfdahl , 38 ). Libertango was first recorded in March, 1975 by Guy Marchand with the lyrics Moi, je suis tango. It became an immediate hit inFrance and by July was reputed to be selling some
30,000 copies a week. In the early 1980s it was given a
new impetus by the Jamaican singer, Grace Jones, with
the words I’ll Never See His Face Again, which proved
once more to be an international bestseller (Wade, 4)
symbolically combiningthe two words Libertad (freedom)
and Tango, implying the transformation from tango to
Tango Nuevo ( Ludwig, 9)
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Piazolla's Libertango,
Performed by Moscow City Symphony "Russian Philharmonic".
Alexej Gerassimez's Piazonore, Performed by composer himself.