by Mauricio Annunziata

 

 

**First Prize  at Composition Competition F. Mompou 2002 (Barcelona, Spain) **

 

 

       Perhaps it must confess that the reign at night Buenosairean has conferred me many things. And also it is certain that the distance of my native city me has made them revivir more intensely in my memory. As well as its title indicates it, the «Trío porteño, Op. 64» (Buenosairean Piano Trio) for Violin, Violoncello and Piano evokes with an original seal native musical airs of the city of Buenos Aires. The bandoneón, violin, contrabass and piano esuna typical formation that later would be extended with the tango orchestras. I have wanted to once again approach the tango the called musica «serious», «cultured», to release it of its «intermediate» position between the popular thing and the serious thing and so that it can thus be integrated in the repertoire of interpreters of this last sort without they need some indication nor must resort to the improvisation.    

 

The work is conceived as a bithematic sonata-form and of pure urban aspect, the first subject is of undergone character and contrasts with the second, slower and sweet, with one coda that, accelerating, retakes tempo initial with greater enthusiasm. It follows a development section in which a new element is brilliant: a walts that alternates with the initial subject to take step to the summary, varied and enriched thematically, that takes the work to a fervent final.

 

Of the rythmical aspect, by its simplicity, it would say that it combines and it superposes the diverse formulas of the tango with those of vals Buenosairean. The harmony, modern, rich in resources and maintained coverall by solid aesthetic principles  —sadly and incomprehensibly forgotten by most of the present composers—, one is based on my frequent politonales ways that when they want are to lead music towards the same place, and with the taste (synonymous of originality) like predominant factor.

 

All the work is surrounded by that nostalgic, sweet, ironic and tragic color that always characterized to the music of the city of Buenos Aires, well-known in the world as tango, recently declared Patrimony of the Humanity. 

 

 

Mauricio Annunziata

Barcelona, July 2002

 

 

 

Photography of a bar of Buenos Aires,

to notice the Bandoneones in the detail of its wall

 

 

© 2002 by Mauricio Annunziata

 

Composed

July 2002

 

Place

Barcelona (Spain) and Francavilla al Mare (Italy)