Astor Piazzolla & Horacio Ferrer's lyrics & chords

In 1967 Horacio Ferrer recorded the poems of his "Romancero canyengue" for the Argentine independent label Trova, accompanied by Agustín Carlevaro's guitar. This record made that Piazzolla invited him to write together, what they would intensely do until 1973. So, as a first great blossom, the operita "María de Buenos Aires" sprang up, it was premiered in 1968 at the sala Planeta, in Buenos Aires, Piazzolla with his ten-piece orchestra, the voices of Héctor de Rosas and Amelita Baltar, and Ferrer himself as reciter in the role of El Duende. ...read more