Universalized as the purest Argentinean musical example, the tango has reached an international popularity in the last years not unaware to diverse film incursions that, beyond the unavoidable quality and visual attractiveness, they transfigure the musical essence of the gender toward its more human and more personal component (for example, the recent The Tango Lesson). Using a brief argumentational excuse, Carlos Saura's film looks for this sublimation through an interrelation among the image propitiated by the great Vittorio Storaro, and the music that, original and adapted, has perfectly summed up the Argentinean Lalo Schifrin, important figure in the film musical panorama of the sixties and seventies, and author of so well-known and magnificent works as Bullitt (1968) or Dirty Harry (1971). Among the twenty-two cues included there is space for some of the most celebrated tangos, as El choclo, Caminito or La cumparsita, as well as pieces by Astor Piazzolla and Osvaldo Pugliese, but it is in the themes composed by the own Schifrin where the biggest interest in this disk resides: the beautiful Tango del atardecer, the rhythmic Tango bárbaro, the avant-garde Tango lunaire -with their evident homage to Arnold Schoenberg and Kurt Weill-, and the experimental Tango para percusión. Special mention deserves La represión, a dramatic and very interesting orchestral movement that depicts with strength a moment so dark of the History of Argentina. The versions, all under the baton of the own Schifrin, make justice to the excellence of the music. M.A.F.

/ DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 459145-2 / 63'

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