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Dino Saluzzi (1935)
One of the most fascinating bandoneonists of our time is called Dino Saluzzi. It combines the traditional way of playing the bandoneon in Argentine folklore and tango with the genres of contemporary music: thus it moves very freely between popular music, jazz, pop and contemporary classical music.
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Rodolfo Mederos (1940)
I met Rodolfo Mederos in 1995. I approached him after a concert at the San Martín Cultural Center and asked if I could take bandoneon lessons with him. I still remember how my heart beat when I went upstairs in his classroom and played for him for the first time. A little later, I took ensemble classes with the Dutch tango quintet Bailongo. Our collaboration was so inspiring that Rodolfo Mederos came to Amsterdam to tour Holland and Germany with us.
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Carlos Garcia (1914 – 2006)
Today’s podcast features pianist Carlos Garcia. I interviewed him in January 1999 in a confectionery on Corrientes Avenue. Only a few steps separated us from the Alvear Theater, where we rehearsed after our conversation with the Municipal Tango Orchestra of Buenos Aires. He has conducted this orchestra together with Raúl Garelo since its foundation in 1980.
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Osvaldo Pugliese (1905 – 1995)
Today we have an interview with Osvaldo Pugliese. When I met him and interviewed him in Rotterdam in 1993, the great master was already 88 years old. He was the first artistic director of the Tango Department of the Rotterdam Conservatory. When he came to Rotterdam for the inauguration, I had the honour of accompanying and performing for him. Unfortunately, I didn’t speak Spanish very well at the time, and Pugliese was already a little deaf, so his wife Lydia repeated my questions. Pugliese called me “Helenita de oro”, something that filled me with pride. His great calm and aura impressed me and accompanied me during my music studies, even after his sad passing, 2 years later.
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Emilio Balcarce (1918 – 2011)
Today we have an interview with Emilio Balcarce, violinist, bandoneonist, conductor, composer and arranger, who died in 2011. On January 5, 1999 I finally met him in the dressing room of the legendary tango club “El viejo Almacén” during a rehearsal of the Tango School Orchestra.
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Ubaldo de Lio (1929 -2012)
Today you can listen to a conversation with another great tango master: the guitarist Ubaldo De Lio. For more than 50 years he played with the wonderful composer and pianist Horacio Salgán in the Duo Salgan – De Lio and in the Quinteto Real.
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Horacio Salgán (1916 – 2016)
In 1999 I had the great joy of being able to chat with one of my favorite composers at a tango festival in Zurich: the great Horacio Salgán.
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Amelita Baltar, Tania y Las Tangueras (in 1996)
Today’s edition is dedicated to 6 very extraordinary women: Tania, Amelita Baltar and Los Tangueras. When exactly the Spanish singer Tanja was born in Toledo at the end of the 19th century will probably always be a secret.
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Antonio Agri (1932 – 1998)
Today we also celebrate the 100th anniversary of Astor Piazzolla’s birth with a very special interview: violinist Antonio Agri was for a long time a close collaborator of the first rejected and then celebrated tango innovator.
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