14.12.2024, 19:00, Wrocław, Sala Oratorium Marianum Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
The ‘Tango Rococo’ concert with music by Piazzolla, Massa or Ginastera is a tribute to Argentina. The bandoneon, with its sound somewhat reminiscent of the organ, is perfectly at home in Baroque music – in the beautiful Rococo interiors of the Marianum Oratory Hall, we will also hear Alessandro Marcello’s famous concerto in D minor arranged for guitar and bandoneon.
And all this will be performed by the celebrated successor to Astor Piazzolla, the excellent banoneonist Omar Massa, accompanied by the award-winning guitarist Jerzy Chwastyk.
The combination of bandoneon and guitar was probably the most important instrumentation in traditional tango music. After Astor Piazzolla’s revolution and the creation of Tango Nuevo, the bandoneon is still the most important instrument in the genre, and Piazzolla himself composed his only double concerto for guitar and bandoneon. This combination is therefore a perfect representation of the tango nuevo genre.
- ASTOR PIAZZOLLA «Adiós Nonino», «Ave Maria», «Historia del Tango»; «Libertango»
- ALBERTO GINASTERA Sonata na gitarę, op. 47;
- OMAR MASSA Negro Liso
- ALESSANDRO MARCELLO Koncert d-Moll;
- JOSEPH DE TORRES Y VERGARA «Obra de lleno de séptimo tono»
- OMAR MASSA «Tango Lullaby»
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“Omar Massa lives and breathes Tango”
Daniel Hope (WELT – Germany)
Composer and bandoneon player Omar Massa was born in Buenos Aires in 1981 and has been based in Berlin since 2019. Internationally acclaimed as one of the leading artists on Tango Nuevo and the bandoneon, he received several “Opus Klassik”, “Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik” and “International Classical Music Awards” nominations in Europe, as Composer of the Year and Instrumentalist of the Year.
He has participated in projects with internationally renowned artists such as Placido Domingo, Jonas Kaufmann, Daniel Hope, Paquito D’Rivera, Guy Braunstein, Alondra de La Parra, Fatma Said, Pablo Ferrandez, Bruno Delepelaire, Alexis Cardenas, Ute Lemper, Sarah McKenzie, Kai Strobel among others, and participated in recordings for important labels such as Deutsche Grammophon and Sony Classical.
In 2023 Omar was awarded with the Bandoneon Prize by the city of Krefeld, Germany (city where the Bandoneon was invented). His tours have been declared of ‘Cultural and Artistic importance to the country of Argentina’ by the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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A Master of breathing and vocal line on the guitar’ –
this is how the playing of the Polish musician Jerzy Chwastyk was described by the Pizzicato magazine.
Jerzy Chwastyk’s extensive repertoire ranges from traditional and classical guitar music to innovative projects and unusual chamber music projects with other artists.
These include collaborations with the Neuköllner Oper, the actor Hanns Zischler, the bandoneonist Omar Massa, among others.
This versatility is also evidenced by his two highly acclaimed solo CDs: La Joia (2017) and Iberian Soundscapes (2020), “dichter.liebe” (Prospero Classical) with Hanns Zischler and Susanne Szambelan.
On the album “dichter.liebe” recorded in 2022 with Susanne Szambelan and Hanns Zischler and nominated twice for the prestigious OPUS KLASSIK award,, he also appeared as an arranger of songs by Robert Schumann – the first transcription of the well-known cycle was praised by critics as an “absolutely monumental and poignant” work. (Radio France)
Jerzy Chwastyk is a prize winner of many renowned competitions (Concurso Sigall/ Chile, Concurso Fernando Sor/Madrid und Concurso Segovia in Linares and in La Herradura) and since 2023 artistic director of Alma Concerts and Sounds of Surrender festival in Wrocław.
