Anglo-Tango – Lilia Salsano, piano
$24.27 ($20.23 concession)
Robin Holloway — 32 Bars of Tango
Anthony Burgess — Tango
Antony Hopkins — Tango
Bryan Kelly — Tango
Dave Smith — 1st Piano Concert
Richard Rodney Bennett — Tango after Syrinx
David Matthews — One to Tango Op. 51d
Rob Keeley — Two Piano Pieces: Pentango & Giga alla Toccata
— Last Tango in Valhalla
John White — Piano Sonata No. 108
Colin Bayliss — A Tentative Tango
Harrison Birtwistle — Betty Freeman: Her Tango
Jonathan Cole — Go Tango
Joseph Phibbs — Tango Rouge
Leonard Salzedo — Tango
Michael Nyman — A Neat Slice of Tango
Peter Reynolds — Tango
Richard Wagner — Selected works
Michael Finnissy — Selected works
Malcolm Fox — Selected works
Lilia Salsano, piano
Adrian Jack – Tin-Pan Tango
Anthony Burgess – Tango
Antony Hopkins – Tango
Bryan Kelly – Tango
Colin Bayliss – A Tentative Tango
Dave Smith – "Tango" from 1st Piano Concert
David Matthews – One to Tango, Op. 51d
Harrison Birtwistle – Betty Freeman: Her Tango
Jonathan Cole – Go Tango
John White – Piano Sonata No. 108
Joseph Phibbs – Tango Rouge
Leonard Salzedo – Tango
Malcolm Fox, freely adapted from Richard Wagner – Last Tango in Valhalla
Michael Finnissy – Selected tango TBA
Michael Nyman – A Neat Slice of Tango
Peter Reynolds – Tango
Richard Rodney Bennett – Tango after Syrinx
Rob Keeley – "Pentango" from Two Piano Pieces: Pentango & Giga alla Toccata
Robin Holloway – 32 Bars of Tango
Programme curated by Helen Glaisher-Hernández.
"A very sensitive interpreter who was able to capture, like no other pianist before her, Guastavino's message." (Association of Argentine Music Critics)
Despite how it sounds, the notion of "Anglo-Tango" is perhaps not entirely the oxymoron that it might seem. This programme of tangos for solo piano, written exclusively by 20th-century and living British classical composers, offers not only an idiosyncratic exercise in musical border-crossing, but also opens a window onto the particularly British iterations of the longstanding infatuation the tango has engendered globally since the first international tango craze of the 1910s. These tangos, on the one hand displaying a broad and eclectic range of highly individualistic and innovative approaches to the genre, also reveal British composers in dialogue with each other, forging something approaching a collective national tango style. Spanning almost a century, they range from Walton's precedent-setting 'Tango-Pasodoble' to contributions by other grandees of British composition such as Rodney Bennett, Finnissy, Nyman and Birtwistle, alongside a plethora of other pre-eminent names from the British contemporary classical canon.
Returning this gesture of cultural diplomacy and bringing some indigenous verve to the programme is the virtuoso Argentine pianist, Lilia Salsano, who performs the programme from her native province of Santa Fé.
Lilia Salsano is considered one of the pre-eminent Argentine pianists of her generation. Since graduating from the Universidad Nacional del Litoral she has garnered numerous prizes both nationally and internationally, and also performs frequently at home and abroad. Most recently she has appeared at the Martha Argerich Festival of Buenos Aires, and as a guest soloist with the Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra at Argentina's Teatro Colón. In 2021 she was also selected to take part in the official Piazzolla centenary celebrations at the Centro Cultural Kirchner. A passionate ambassador for contemporary music and Argentine composers, her 2019 landmark recording of Guastavino's complete solo piano music was the first to be undertaken by a single pianist. She has also recorded the world premiere album of the complete piano music of Virtú Maragno, and has performed numerous other world premieres, including many pieces dedicated specially to her. Salsano is the resident pianist of the Provincial Symphony Orchestra of Santa Fé and currently a Faculty member at the Antonio Fuentes del Arco Liceo Municipal of Santa Fé.
Presented by ILAMS as part of Echoes Festival 2021 in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes, with the kind support of the Embassy of Argentina.
The event will begin on 11th Dec 2021 7:30pm GMT / 11:30am Pacific with on-demand video available for 3 days after the event. Tickets purchased after the event will give you access for 3 days.
Tickets: £18 / $24.27 (£15 / $20.23 concession)