Suite del Plata No. 1

If there is one piece of music that has returned to my stand over and over again through the years, it's Suite del Plata No. 1 by Maximo Diego Pujol. Rooted in tango but infused with concepts that remind me of Roland Dyens and Leo Brouwer, it's filled with challenging rhythms and approachable lyricism. I think Maestro Pujol's own biography describes it best:

“Pujol has strived for an ever-closer fusion of traditional Argentine Tango and formal academic concepts. This musical quest on the guitar stems from a thorough, almost obsessive, study of the works of Heitor Villa-Lobos and Leo Brouwer, who revolutionized guitar music by incorporating the instrument and its particular musical vocabulary in their own works.”

My reference performance is by Victor Villadangos.