19 XAVIER PHILLIPS ∙ LAUSANNE SOLOISTS How does this Concerto sound with strings alone? Naturally it sounds different, the overall sonority being less full. But the Piazzolla sound itself remains, whatever timbres are used, just as Bach remains Bach on any instrument. In that sense, we never lost sight of the style; in fact we worked on it extensively, taking into account everything that matters in the interpretation of this music, especially the way its effects should sound. I taught the players how to produce them; the chicharra, that scraping on the string’s outer winding, the stopped pizzicatos, the glissandi…
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