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DANIEL BREL Born in Egleny (Yonne - France), in a family of Slavic and Central European musicians, Daniel Brel came on holiday in Béarn region in 1962. As a child, he was aleady interested in music ; he started learning how to play the accordion with his grandfather, Emile Brel in charge of some popular dances on the accordion in Paris dances know as "bals musette" such as Bal à Jo, Bal Mira, le poste parisien in the thirties. From 1962 to 1965, he has been learning how to play the accordion in UZOS, a small village near Pau, through the "musette" inusical style. Then, he gradually became more interested in classical accordion as it was played in Russian music schools (Tchaïkine, Zoltarev). He played traditional transcriptions (waltz of Chopin, Weber, Grieg, Bach) Then, he started writing. In 1971, while listenning to the radio, he heard Astor Piazzola . He was entirely won over. He bought a bandonion, and worked on Tango with some Argentinians. In 1979, in Pau, he created the Quartet thanks to which he became famous through a series of concerts about Tango " Contratiempo ". This Tango originally, consisted in four musical instruments : a bandonion, a violoncello, a double bass. |
| In 1984, he played in Paris in " Les trottoirs de Buenos Aires " he was then asked by Mosalini to have an exam allowing him to teach bandonion wich he finally passed in 1988 .
In 1991, after a concert, he went on playing in Lyon where he met musicians in the Conservatoire . From 1992 to 1994, he devoted his life to writing for bandonion and created some scores of chamber music. He also wrote tunes for shows. In 1994, in Pau, he created a sextet for traditionaly and contemporary Tangos and organizes shows with original musical parts close to chamber music. In 1995, in 1996, he gave concerts in South Western French towns such as Agen, Tarbes, Pau and Bordeaux. |
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| Daniel Brel | the CD | ||||
| Alexandre Dalbigot | Richard Galliano | Return to the beginning | |||
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| BANDO SOLO This disc includes a small instrumental suite for bandonion of eight topics written from impressions. On this disc, you'll find two pieces for two bandonions such as " petite valse ", reminding of popular dances on the accordion known as Bal musette or "légende " dedicated to César Stroscio and Juan José Mosalini, two Argentinian Tango musicians who presently live in Paris. The solo album you discover Tango in a simple and intimate way, telling you tender stories.It is a masterpiece of music in which melancoly definitely rings a bell to you and takes you very far away, over there, somewhere else in the colourful suburbs of Buenos Aires. |
| From original and definitely brand new writings to some extracts from already well-known modern Tango famous composers, his music is a happy mixture of tunes created thanks to his meeting with the young violonist Alexandre DALBIGOT, |
| first Paris Reward at the Paris Conservatoire where he was taught music by Gerard Poulet. Both musicians' great ambition is to match the bandonion "a child of freedom" with the violin "a noble" musical instrument typically traditional. |
| RICHARD GALLIANO Richard GALLIANO, is a peculiar musician in the positive meaning of the word. He's been Nougaro, Barbara and Reggiani's musical mate. His main achievement is to definitely reconcile jazz and the accordion with the invention of the "New Musette". During some of his concerts, he kindly asks Daniel Brel to play the first part of his program. |
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CONCERT It starts their concert with a Tango as bandonion is Tango traditional instrument..So, Tango can't be avoiled but, as Daniel says, it's much better to break the traditionnal rules and to go further than pure Tango. That's what both musicians definitely achieve offering lively music to their audience, a perfect mixture of various influences, a great duet that sometimes sounds like a real fight. So, both artists start will romantic and classical pieces such as "au bout du monde" meaning "far away", then they go on with more modern topics in which you can hear either birds singing "au dessus des arbres" meaning "at the top of the trees" or harsher sounds and tunes with "Elegie". Lastly, they come back to Astor Piazzola's traditionnal Tango rewritten by Daniel Brel to finish brightly playing both the violin and the bandonion, a musical part in which the artists both play with a great deal of talent without being out of breath. |
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Contact New Tango : Bruno Hiriart Rue de la cigogne 16000 ANGOULEME FRANCE - phone : 05 45 68 45 29 |
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visites : mise à jour : le 12/02/2000 |
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