Violinists

Tango Diario, a series of podcasts

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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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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