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Raul Jaurena, Sinopus String Quartet
Te Amo Tango
Genres: International Music, Pop, Latin Music

Track Listings (14) - Disc #1
1. A Mancuso
2. Danza Para Un Bandoneon/Bandoneon Arrabalero
3. Tatoneando
4. La Pirulita
5. La Cumparsita
6. Guruyense
7. Con El Corazon Al Sur
8. Better Late Than Never
9. Espera
10. Prometedora
11. Noches Del Odeon
12. Yuyito
13. El Botija
14. New York Gotan

CD Details

All Artists: Raul Jaurena, Sinopus String Quartet
Title: Te Amo Tango
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Soundbrush Records
Release Date: 12/5/2006
Genres: International Music, Pop, Latin Music
Styles: Latin Music, Tango, Latin Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 837101205795

Synopsis

Album Description

Received a 2007 Latin Grammy in the tango category! Raul Jaurena's first new CD in seven years features 12 originals and 2 tango classics. The product of a sold-out show at the Thalia Spanish Theater in 2005, the recording features the talented young Sinopus String Quintet along with pianist Octavio Brunetti and vocalist Marga Mitchell. "Raul Jaurena, regarded as one of the best of the bandoneon players, is likely to win more than a few converts to the tango with this richly expressive, expertly produced session." -- All About Jazz

CD Reviews

Jaurena Makes Everyone Love the Tango!

Grady Harp | Los Angeles, CA United States | 02/12/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"For those who treasure the Tango and the music it inspires despite the passage of time and trends this excellent recording is as fine as any around. Raul Jaurena is a highly respected bandoneon artist from Uruguay who has committed his musical life to perpetuating the passion of his youth - the tango. One of the early proponents of Astor Piazzolla's compositions, he went on to compose his own responses to the tango infection and this CD represents a heady group of his compositions.

With Jaurena playing the bandoneon the sound is truly authentic. For the fourteen compositions on this recording he is joined by Octavo Runetti, piano, and the Quinteto Sinopus (Uruguay) composed of Alejandra Moreira and Lya Perez, violins, Stella Maris Gonzalez, viola, Lucrecia Basaldua, cello, and Sergio Mouro, bass. The ensemble sound they produce is tightly woven, passionate, and inspires thoughts of the atmosphere of the tango parlors of Buenos Aires. On four of the songs Marga Mitchell serves as vocal soloist and she has all the brazen and weepy beauty the lyrics require.

This is tango music as true to the spirit of the dance as any this listener has heard. It is a treasure of an album and is a credit to Raul Jaurena's gifts not only as an instrumentalist, but as an arranger and musical director as well. Grady Harp, February 07"