{"id":6640,"date":"2021-09-16T19:53:16","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T18:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=6640"},"modified":"2021-09-22T17:20:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T16:20:36","slug":"joanna-macgregor-with-brighton-philharmonc-orchestra-at-brighton-dome-on-26th-september-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=6640","title":{"rendered":"Joanna MacGregor with Brighton Philharmonc Orchestra at Brighton Dome on 26th September 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Argentine Tango\u2019s advance into European classical concerts reached its ultimate seal of British approval and media exposure this month. Astor Piazzolla\u2019s most well-known composition Libertango was included in The Last Night of The Proms, complete with twice-appearing accordionist Ksenija Sodorova, from Latvia, front-stage.<\/p>\n

Along with bandoneon \u2013 the Argentine accordion \u2013 piano, double bass and violin constitute core Piazzolla tango orchestration and the nostalgic Hispanic atmosphere began enthusing amateur recreational dancers across Britain before it did musicians. The jazz and improvisational element ruled out classical musicians becoming practitioners, unless of wider breeding or stylistic bent.<\/p>\n

Two exceptions have emerged from London in the recent years of tango dance centres taking root in enlightened cities (Brighton included) \u2013 one the programmatically-pioneering British pianist Joanna MacGregor, the other and London-based Polish violinist Kamila Bydlowska.<\/p>\n

Captivated by Argentine Tango, MacGregor became a pianist with Piazzolla\u2019s authentic posthumously-revived orchestra. Bydlowska is today one quarter of London-based band Tango Terra Kuarteto, an otherwise male ensemble of Argentinians embedded in the London tango tuition and dance culture. Two women who thus prepare classical concertos for performance one day, and another day leap eagerly as well as comfortably into the tango groove.<\/p>\n

MacGregor gave her own arrangement of Three Piazzolla Tangos (Michelangelo 70, Milanga del Angel, Libertango<\/em>) with five Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra string players in a Brighton Dome livestreamed Sunday Coffee Concert of chamber music in April. Now on Sunday, September 26 (2.45pm) her arrangement will separate Mozart\u2019s 9th and 21st Piano Concertos in the opening orchestral concert of BPO\u2019s 2021-22 season.<\/p>\n

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Two days earlier, Bydlowska is also in Brighton action, at the Music & Wine at St Luke\u2019s series on Friday 24th September (7.30). She will be playing Piazzolla\u2019s Tango for the 1988 film Sur<\/em> called Vuelvo Al sur<\/em>\u2019 (\u2018I\u2019m going back to the South\u2019). This comes in her concert with the Ukrainian pianist Olga Paliy, alongside Igor Frolov\u2019s virtuoso Concert Fantasy on Themes from Gershwin\u2019s Porgy & Bess<\/em>. Yet included on the same programme are Brahms\u2019 FAE Sonata Scherzo<\/em>, Saint-Saens\u2019 substantial Violin Sonata No 1 in D minor<\/em>, and some Prokofiev. We are in freshened new times.<\/p>\n

We find two women in classical music taking the tango game to the guys. But doesn\u2019t the woman do that in the tango dance itself? Is there any matching historic classic dance where traditionally the woman does as much controlling as the man?<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, it\u2019s women who are driving tango in city venues in our and provincial pockets of growth. Tango Terra Kuarteto are in hotspot demand not only in the capital (including The South Bank Centre), Brighton, Bristol and Portsmouth, but also enclaves such as Dorchester and Hertford.<\/p>\n

But why is Tango now rubbing shoulders with classical like this? Is it because audiences rather like watching musicians in black and white concert dress undoing buttons, shedding their straitjacket, flexing their improvisatory muscles, creating a more relaxed spontaneity \u2013 and stirring up a more palpable passion?<\/p>\n

Richard Amey<\/p>\n

Kamila Bydlowska is an associate artiste of The International Interview Concerts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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