Multifaceted artist, ballerina, coreographer, composer and lyricist, theatrical and cinematographic directress, the British Sally Potter jumped to international fame with her movie Orlando (1992), for which she also composed the soundtrack. Her second film incursion mixes all the characteristics of her complex figure, mixing reality and fiction, music and dance, in a reflection on life and the tango. Participating, once again, in its music, Potter co-worked with the former rocker Fred Frith in the writing of five of the twenty cues that compose the disk, sings in another one (I Am You, with lyrics also work of Potter), and it has selected the rest of the themes among the multitude of recordings of composers and classic interpreters of tangos: Carlos Gardel and his famous Mi Buenos Aires Querido, Osvaldo Pugliese with La Yumba, Juan D'Arienzo with Milonga de Mis Amores and, of course, Astor Piazzolla with Libertango, of which is offered an actual arrangement as closing of the disk performed by the ubiquitous cello player Yo-Yo Ma. Potter's music, spatial and without doubt personal, is intermingleed throughout the hearing with the echoes of the tangos, and their contagious paces. Exquisite presentation of the CD, with a wide commentary of each cue, photos of the movie, and opinions of the directress/composer/authoress on the influence of the tango in her life. M.A.F.

/ SONY CLASSICAL SK63226 / 53'