Astor Piazzolla for Violin & Guitar

This is a great book of music for intermediate to advanced classical guitarists who know a violinist interested in playing duos. The seller was very quick in getting the item to me as soon as I ordered it. Highly recommend.

The selection of pieces is quite interesting, most people only know 'Libertango', 'Las Estaciones Porteñas', 'Escualo', 'Historia del Tango' and so, this book is great to get inside different pieces from this amazing composer, the only known piece on the book is probably "Adiós Nonino". What I didn't like about the book is that it doesn't include separated parts, on the guitar is ok to have the score, but a violin part would be really handy to have on this edition, unfortunately the description didn't' mentioned anything about it. If you're interested in the book, here is the full listing of the pieces included: 1.- Adiós Nonino 2.- Boricua 3.- Buenos Aires hora cero 4.- Calambre 5.- Decarísimo 6.- Dernier Lamento 7.- Détresse 8.- Éxtasis 9.- Fiebre de tango 10.- Franacapa 11.- Greenwich 12.- Gulinay 13.- Imágines 676 14.- Iracundo 15.- La calle 92 16.- La fin del mundo 17.- Las furias 18.- Llueve sobre Broadway 19.- Los poseídos 20.- Made in U.S.A. 21.- Mi exaltación 22.- Misteriosa vida 23.- Nuevo mundo 24.- Presentania 25.- Psicosis 26.- Recuerdo New York 27.- Revirado 28.- Romántico Idilio (Sans le présence) 29.- Se terminó (C'est fini) 30.- Suavidad 31.- Tango Choc 32.- Tanguísimo 33.- Te quiero tango 34.- Todo fue 35.- Yo canto un tango

this book is not for the faint-hearted. A lot of work is required from the guitarist in writing in fingering and sometimes deleting impossible hand positions in some pieces. Clearly the arrangements were not focussed on the guitarists ease of performance (but when is Piazzolla's music easy to perform). The parts for the violin do take some extra effort in terms of timing, and ensemble issues do arise when first putting some pieces together. However, if you do work on the pieces you can create some absolutely wonderful and enriching sounds that really do capture the essence of nuevo tango. This book is a must for the violin/guitar ensemble and is a welcome addition to the regular and often boring repertoire for this wonderful combination. Suitable for those gigs that require a bit of class above the regular Guiliani style pieces. Also very suitable in concert situations. Highly recommended!

Que bien que hicieron éstas versiones para violín y guitarra. Me gustaría tocar las Estaciones Porteñas en el mismo formato

Great selection of pieces

This was a birthday present for my husband, a classical violinist - who also thoroughly enjoys Piazzolla's music, and to find a book full of violin and guitar duets well worked out, tabbed etc, has been a godsend! Lots of well known pieces (if you're a regular listener to Classic.fm!!) and great fun to play! Guitarists may need to be pretty good at working at the chordal structures of the sheet music, but well worth it, as the end results are very satisfying to play!

Ich habe schon verschiedene Piazzollas auf der Geige gespielt und bin über dies Sammlung gestolpert. Jedes Stück ist eine Entdeckung für mich und ich habe damit sehr viel Spaß damit. Leider habe ich keinen Gitarristen an der Hand, der mich begleiten kann, aber es gibt verschiedene CD-Aufnahmen zu den Stücken, so dass ich mich mit der entsprechenden Aussteuerung wunderbar begleiten kann. Teilweise sind diese Aufnahmen genau wie notiert, teilweise arrangiert bzw. erweitert. Auch das macht Spaß. Man sieht was einzelne Musiker aus dem Material gemacht haben.

Good... Wish it came with separate parts.