At once didactic, playful and musically solid, cellist Dominique Beauséjour-Ostiguy and guitarist Christ Habib’s show Hommage à Piazzolla succeeds in making a history lesson on the life and career of the great composer/bandoneonist light and entertaining. Over the course of an hour, the two young artists use music to take us from the composer’s very beginnings (influenced by traditional tango, then jazz and finally very serious classical music) to his maturity, that of Tango Nuevo. Even if the two musicians’ presentations lack a little professionalism, the information offered and their relative conciseness have the advantage of adding a dose of meat around the bone for the many laymen, without making it academic. That said, the most remarkable thing there is the quality of the duo’s playing, particularly that of Beauséjour-Ostiguy. His technical ease, coupled with an intensely felt musicality, make him one of today’s finest young classical talents. Hats off, too, to Christ Habib, who expresses himself with a beautiful tactile delicacy.
Classical / latino / Tango / Tango Nuevo
