The
Norwegian composer Sverre Indris Joner is recognized by most tangophiliacs as
musical director-composer-arranger-pianist of the electrotango formation Electrocutango. However, he has sides to
discover, and mostly all have to do with his faible for Latin America´s music. With
this new recording we find a richness of his creative ‘classical’ output: new
tango compositions played with his old formation Tango for 3 (Sverre Indris Joner – piano; Per Arne Glorvigen –
bandoneón; Odd Hannisdal – violin; Steinar Haggerud – double bass), a violin
concerto (with three movements: milonga, zamba and tango) played by solo violinist
Henning Kraggerud and the Norwegian Radio
Orchestra, and a concert in three movements played by Tango for 3 and string orchestra.
The violin
concert and also the ‘Concerto grosso’ are typical ‘art’ compositions for a
concert hall audience, but they have all the ingredients of contemporary tango:
the dynamic contrasts, syncopated accents, soulful passion and cold distance. Joner
avoids the tango clichés and has written ‘true’ contemporary tango music. The
other seven compositions on this album, played by orchestra and the quartet, could
be played also in ‘open-minded’ dance halls. The dynamic milonga “Retrolonga” from
Electrotango´s album Felino works
great as an orchestra piece of music.
My favorite
songs are the sugar-sweet string serenade “Mil vias”, melodically rather simple
but highly devotional (written for his wife), the soulful “Mi Viejo dolor”
(written for his mother) with beautiful bandoneon and violin lines, and the
reluctant “Victorioso” (written for his daughter) which attracts with its
beautiful contemplative mood. - Great! These songs are worth it.
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