Pujol: Cuatro Argentinas
Details
- Composer
- Maximo Diego Pujol
- Artist
- George Tossikian
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Brilliant Classics
- Released
- Nov 18, 2022
- Catalog #
- BRI96703
- UPC
- 5028421967035
About
After Máximo Diego Pujol (born 1957) discovered a guitar in a closet at his parents’ home in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the eight-year-old Máximo took his first lessons from Don Gaspar Navarro, neighbor, and friend, as well as a fine tango and milonga player who taught all the children in the neighborhood. Later he studied with various authorities of the guitar including Alfredo Vicente Gascón, Abel Carlevaro and Leo Brouwer, graduating from the Juan José Castro Conservatory with the Superior Professor of Guitar diploma. In a place where tango was constantly floating in the air, he honed his skills as a performer by playing at Buenos Aires night clubs, both as a soloist and as an accompanist. He also played in a number of duos, trios, and quartets, immersing himself fully in every aspect of tango music. Since his earliest days as a professional musician and composer, Pujol has strived for a fusion of traditional Argentine tango and formal academic concepts. This musical quest stems from a thorough study of the works of Heitor Villa-Lobos and Leo Brouwer, who revolutionized guitar music by incorporating the instrument and its particular musical vocabulary in their own works. Máximo Diego Pujol’s music is the guitar testimony of such a complex country as Argentina, but it is also, and above all, the expression of a universal lyricism, feeding on eternal feelings like melancholy, nostalgia, sensuality, passion, anger, and love. This new recording contains the Variaciones sobre un tema de Atahualpa Yupanqui, Elegia por la muerte de un tanguero, Sonatina, and Suite del Plata, no. 1.
Tracklist 12 tracks
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1 Variaciones sobre un tema de Atahualpa Yupanqui 09:24
- Track
- 1
- Title
- Variaciones sobre un tema de Atahualpa Yupanqui
- Duration
- 09:24
- Composer
- Máximo Diego Pujol
- Performer
- George Tossikian
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2 No. 1. Confuseta (In Confusion) 02:57
- Track
- 2
- Title
- No. 1. Confuseta (In Confusion)
- Duration
- 02:57
- Composer
- Máximo Diego Pujol
- Performer
- George Tossikian
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3 No. 2. En melancolia (In Melancholy) 03:51
- Track
- 3
- Title
- No. 2. En melancolia (In Melancholy)
- Duration
- 03:51
- Composer
- Máximo Diego Pujol
- Performer
- George Tossikian
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4 No. 3. Epilogo (Epilogue) 03:16
- Track
- 4
- Title
- No. 3. Epilogo (Epilogue)
- Duration
- 03:16
- Composer
- Máximo Diego Pujol
- Performer
- George Tossikian
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5 I. Allegro ritmico 04:10
- Track
- 5
- Title
- I. Allegro ritmico
- Duration
- 04:10
- Composer
- Máximo Diego Pujol
- Performer
- George Tossikian
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6 II. Andante e molto legato 04:43
- Track
- 6
- Title
- II. Andante e molto legato
- Duration
- 04:43
- Composer
- Máximo Diego Pujol
- Performer
- George Tossikian
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7 III. Allegro 03:31
- Track
- 7
- Title
- III. Allegro
- Duration
- 03:31
- Composer
- Máximo Diego Pujol
- Performer
- George Tossikian
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8 I. Preludio 01:40
- Track
- 8
- Title
- I. Preludio
- Duration
- 01:40
- Composer
- Máximo Diego Pujol
- Performer
- George Tossikian
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9 II. Tango 03:08
- Track
- 9
- Title
- II. Tango
- Duration
- 03:08
- Composer
- Máximo Diego Pujol
- Performer
- George Tossikian
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10 III. Milonga 03:49
- Track
- 10
- Title
- III. Milonga
- Duration
- 03:49
- Composer
- Máximo Diego Pujol
- Performer
- George Tossikian
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11 IV. Murga 01:38
- Track
- 11
- Title
- IV. Murga
- Duration
- 01:38
- Composer
- Máximo Diego Pujol
- Performer
- George Tossikian
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12 V. Candombe 00:55
- Track
- 12
- Title
- V. Candombe
- Duration
- 00:55
- Composer
- Máximo Diego Pujol
- Performer
- George Tossikian