Piazzólla: Maria de Buenos Aires
Valentina Montoya Martínez, Nicholas Mulroy, Juanjo Lopez Vidal (narrator) & Victor Villena (bandoneón)
Mr McFall’s Chamber
Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2017
Valentina Montoya Martinez gives the central character a full-flavoured vocal embodiment, intelligently supported by Juanjo Lopez Vidal as the narrator figure…Additional authenticity is supplied...
Piazzólla: Maria de Buenos Aires
Valentina Montoya Martínez, Nicholas Mulroy, Juanjo Lopez Vidal (narrator) & Victor Villena (bandoneón)
Mr McFall’s Chamber
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Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2017
Valentina Montoya Martinez gives the central character a full-flavoured vocal embodiment, intelligently supported by Juanjo Lopez Vidal as the narrator figure…Additional authenticity is supplied...
About
Who is María? Horacio Ferrer, author of the text for this unconventional ‘operita’, said she was a representation of Buenos Aires, embodying the spirit of tango itself. María de Buenos Aires lies outside any known genre. According to Ferrer, its highly poetic libretto was written ‘not to be understood, but to create emotion and atmosphere’. Piazzolla’s music, too, offers a charged mix of classical forms and Argentinian traditions – milonga, tango and the sparring spoken word of the traditional payada. In this, the first major recording since the 1980s, Delphian stalwarts Mr McFall’s Chamber are joined by their long-term collaborators Valentina Montoya Martínez and Nicholas Mulroy, narrator Juanjo Lopez Vidal, and internationally acclaimed tango musicians Victor Villena and Cyril Garac.
Contents and tracklist
- Juanjo Lopez Vidal (narrator), Victor Villena (bandoneon), Nicholas Mulroy (vocals), Roberto Rabinovich (narrator), Pedro Castillo (narrator), Gustavo Pardo (narrator), Valentina Montoya Martínez (vocals), Lisa Eskuche (narrator), Tanja Jacobs (narrator), Ann McFall (narrator), Rhona McLeod (narrator), Doreen Rodgers (narrator)
- Mr McFall's Chamber
- Recorded: 18-19 June 2016
- Recording Venue: The Tom Fleming Centre, Erskine Stewart’s Melville Schools, Edinburgh
Awards and reviews
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Presto Editor's ChoiceNovember 2017
April 2018
Valentina Montoya Martinez gives the central character a full-flavoured vocal embodiment, intelligently supported by Juanjo Lopez Vidal as the narrator figure…Additional authenticity is supplied by bandoneon player and music director Victor Villena.
February 2018
Rhythms are crisp and precise throughout, and the pristine sound brings out plenty of sharply focused instrumental detail. Montoya Martinez, her voice earthy and lived-in, captures the defiance and vitality that drive Marìa on…Best of all, perhaps, is Nicholas Mulroy…singing milongas like one born to it. Exhilaratingly done, and a fine achievement
9th November 2017
The sultry exchanges between violin and bandoneon are irresistible, as are the voices: smoky narration from Juanjo Lopez Vidal, with Valentina Montoya Martinez unflinching as Maria, and huge-hearted chansons from Nicholas Mulroy. If you know him as Bach’s Evangelist, just wait till you hear his way with a slow milonga. Devastating.
