Yvar Mikhashoff
Incitation to Desire
NA073

Tangos, tangos, tangos, abstract intellectual tangos, heart on the sleeve romances, passionate pillow talk tangos, solitude cafe cold coffee tangos, performed on piano by the late Yvar Mikhashoff

The movements of the dance are less presentable to a polite audience than those of the habanera, and as now performed in the cafes chantants of Madrid and other cities of Spain, the Tango has become nothing but an Incitation to Desire.

--"Tango", Grove's Dictionary of Music, 1944

Yvar was an internationally known virtuoso pianist, bon vivant and ballroom dancer who died of AIDS a few years ago. One of his obsessive passions in life was to commission tangos from living composers of all ilk. This collection is drawn from sessions we recorded near the end of his life, when his sight was failing but his playing was still brilliant. These short pieces are mostly played from memory and include some terrifically funny titles: "Fromage Dangereux", which is self explanatory, and the final "Thorn Torn Lips" which observes the condition of the gypsy dancer who was kissed before the rose in her mouth was removed.

Mikhashoff's tango collection tells us much abut this seductive dance, but just as much about the personalities confronting it.

--The New York Times

Track List

1. Exile's Cafe (Michael Sahl) 3:59
2. Perpetual Canon (Vers. A) (John Cage) 0:44
3. Tango d'Antan (Dane Rudhyar) 2:48
4. Tango Voices (William Duckworth) 3:06
5. Fromage Dangereux (William Schimel) 3:40
6. Curriculum Vitae Tango (Lukas Foss) 2:54
7. Ms Jackson Dances for the World (Scott Pender) 3:18
8. Tango after Syrinx (Richard Rodney Bennett) 3:36
9. Incitation to Desire (Chester Biscardi) 3:19
10. Tango Music (Ivana Ludova) 3:17
11. Tango Dreaming (Colin Bright) 4:08
12. Tango (Laszlo Sa'ry) 2:45
13. Tango? (Conlon Nancarrow) 3:37
14. Tango No Tango (Jackson Hill) 4:25
15. Tango auf drei Beinum (Raschke) 2:32
16. Tempo di Tango (Aaron Copland) 3:31
17. Tango (David Jaggard) 3:37
18. Perpetual Tango (II) (John Cage) 3:37
19. Thorn-torn Lips (Robert Berkman) 3:38

Total: 63:34

$15.00

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