Great Hall, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria; Basilique, Heliopolis, Cairo
With
Michel Piquemal and Nayer Nagui (conductors); Martín Palmeri (piano), Gilberto Pereyra (bandoneon); Bibliotheca Alexandrina Choir, Orchestra and Youth Orchestra
In collaboration with
the Embassy of Argentina in Egypt; the Bibliotheca Alexandrina
About this concert
The Argentine composer Martín Palmeri wrote his Misa Tango (Misa a Buenos Aires) in 1996: the Latin mass set to the rhythms of the tango, with bandoneon, piano and strings. The choir performed it with the composer himself at the piano and Gilberto Pereyra on bandoneon, under Michel Piquemal and Nayer Nagui, in the Great Hall of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and in the Basilique in Heliopolis.
Programme
Work
Martín Palmeri, Misa Tango
About the music
Martín Palmeri, Misa a Buenos Aires (Misatango)
The Argentine composer began it in 1995; it was first performed in Buenos Aires on 17 August 1996.
The Latin mass in the language of tango: mezzo-soprano, choir, bandoneon, piano and strings.
Palmeri often plays the piano part himself; the work has since been heard from Rome to Carnegie Hall.
