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Johan van der Linden: soprano saxophone | Niels Bijl: alto saxophone | Arno Bornkamp: tenor saxophone | Willem van Merwijk: baritone saxophone |Juan Pablo Dobal: piano | Ville Hiltula: bandoneon.

Recorded live at the Bethaniënklooster in Amsterdam on September 2006. The world-famous Aurelia Saxophone Quartet's first Piazzolla tango CD was a smash hit some ten years ago. The addition of a pianist and bandeonist adds extra authentic tango flavor to the saxophone sound. Features classic Piazzolla works combined with seven world premiere recordings! The quartet has made radio recordings at home and abroad, and regularly performs on TV. They play most music without a score, in order to promote optional concentration among the audience and themselves.

In 1994 the Aurelia Saxophone Quartet recorded the CD "Contrasaxeando / Tango Nuevo" with bandoneon player Gustavo Toker and pianist Juan Pablo Dobal. An extensive concert tour followed, with bandoneonist Carel Kraayenhof eventually replacing Toker. The tour and the CD were devoted to the music of Astor Piazzolla and both were extremely successful. Ten years on, the time was ripe for an encore.
Together with Hiltula (Tobal being back in Argentina) and Dobal, the quartet goes in search of the post-Piazzolla tango, while still paying tribute to the great master. We are treated to a rendition of Piazzolla's bandoneon solo Toccata Rea from his opera 'Maria de Buenos Aires', Milonga Loca ('crazy Milonga') and Mumuki, and the sextet also plays his La Muerte del Angel as an encore.