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TitlecodeR00794
Title NameThree Tangos for Flute, Harp and Strings
Marketing CopyCommissioned by the Glendale Chamber Orchestra and Recorded by Flutist Marisa Canales and Harpist Lidia Tamayo on Urtext Digital. Three Tangos builds on the legacies of Piazzolla, Borges and Gardel with Schifrin's own distinctive and cosmopolitan voice.
InstrumentationFlute, Harp Soli: String Orchestra
CommissionCommissioned by the Glendale Chamber Orchestra
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Program NotesThe Tango is many things to many people. To dancers it is a sensual ceremony. To lovers it is a stolen kiss, a treason in the shadows. Poets sing it with passion and philosophers decry its despair. The young associate it with decadence and the old with nostalgia. I only try to capture some musical elements of the Tango and like a kaleidoscope, I fragmented, changed and recombined its rhythms, tensions and articulations. Perhaps the harp tries to remember a dream while the strings slide through the streets of Buenos Aires on a rainy day. Perhaps the flute dances through life like a Tango.

Lalo Schifrin




Three Tangos has been recorded by
Marisa Canales (flute)
Lidia Tamayo (harp)
with the
Conjunto de Camara de la Ciudad de Mexico
Benjamin Juarez Echenique, Conductor
Urtext Digital Classics JBCC 001



Program note from the album liner~

Three Tangos remind us of (Schifrin’s) collaborations with his friend Astor Piazzolla; dressed in cosmopolitan clothes, Schifin’s Tango is a perfect vehicle for contemporary music.

The nervous first tango explores the low register of the flute before traveling throughout many emotional regions in a wordless soliloquy. The second tango seems to start in a dream, Schifrin owes here more to Borges than to Gardel. The third Tango is again a proof of the soloist’s virtuosity and the composer’s handling of the strings, a clear confirmation that the tango belongs in the concert hall, Just as Albéniz, Stravinsky and Bartók had predicted.
Title Brand2
Year Composed1986
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Duration9
Ensemble Size13
Date Created2008-10-31 20:24:51.000000
Date Updated2025-09-30 20:24:51
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Recording CreditsRecorded by Marisa Canales (flute), Lidia Tamayo (harp), Conjunto de Camara de la Ciudad de Mexico, Benjamin Juarez Echenique, Urtext Digital Classics JBCC 001
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Title Category7
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Title Instrument Category TextString Orchestra
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Title Sub Category47
Title Instrument Header42
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