Elvino Vardaro

Joined Carlos Di Sarli1956[1]Single source

Played in Carlos Di Sarli1956, 1958[2][3]Supported · 2

Played in Adolfo Carabelli[21]Single source

Played in Fulvio Salamanca[22]Single source

External id todotango:creador/131[4]Single source

External id wikidata:Q5368094source

External id tango_info:ElvinVarda[5]Single source

External id musicbrainz:7da56861-f863-4dea-bc3c-bb8fef88afd5source

External id discogs:1168563[6]Single source

Born on June 18, 1905[4]Single source

Died on August 5, 1971[4]Single source

Born in Buenos Aires Argentina[4]Single source

Violinista, director y compositor[4]Single source

Vardaro was contracted to Victor in the late 1920s, so he plays violin on almost every Victor tango side of the period, apart from 1929-30 while he was forming the Vardaro-Pugliese sextet.[10]Single source

A violinist (heard as 'Vodaro'/'Vardaro') appears as an uncredited session player on many Victor and Maglio recordings of this era, recognizable by his tone, though he never led a commercially successful band of his own.[11]Single source

As an uncredited session violinist on many late-1920s Juan Maglio Victor recordings, Vardaro's distinctive tone and vibrato directly fed into the D'Arienzo sound of the mid-1930s.[12]Single source

Vardaro, the violinist famous from Orquesta Típica Victor's recordings, was a world-class musician who lacked the personal charisma and business sense needed to run his own tango orchestra, so he worked instead as a house musician for hire across many 1930s bands (Maglio, Guido, and others).[13]Single source

Vardaro, the soloist heard playing in the 1929 episode, is by 1958 just one of around eight violinists in Di Sarli's orchestra, with no solos given, partly because Di Sarli disliked solos and partly to avoid friction among his many world-class violinists.[14]Single source

On the Los Virtuosos recordings, Vardaro is clearly the far stronger violinist; Julio De Caro, chosen for his contribution to tango rather than his playing, hands Vardaro the solo lines and plays pizzicato backing himself.[15]Single source

Vardaro, who briefly played violin for Fresedo in 1942, is arguably tango's greatest violinist ever.[16]Single source

Vardaro had already formed his own sextet in 1933; like Laurenz's new band, it did not record at the time, and both are 'seeds' for the dance-orchestra revolution that only bears fruit in 1937.[17]Single source

Vardaro's violin tone is unmistakable, above all his vibrato: 'a second, half a second, we know it's enough'; Lavocah can't imagine Típica Victor, Carabelli and other bands without Vardaro on violin and Cirilo Ortiz on bandoneón.[18]Single source

In 1933 Vardaro, who had a failed sextet with the young Pugliese in 1929-30, formed a new sextet with Troilo on first bandoneón, José Pascual on piano, Hugo Baralis on second violin and Pedro Caracciolo on bass.[18]Single source

Victor judged Vardaro's Tigre viejo test pressing too uncommercial and refused to press it or give him a contract; his nephew Osvaldo told Lavocah that Vardaro was so angry he smashed his violin bow on the piano.[18]Single source

Vardaro, known for his characteristic tone in the Típica Victor and Típica Porteña, could also play classical runs and double stops and bluegrass-like passages, which shows that he is a master tango violinist who could play anything.[19]Single source

Columbia's artistic director Martín Darré invited Vardaro to form an all-star orchestra for one disc (Pico de oro and the Bardi tango), arranged by Argentino Galván and issued in Columbia's C-series for celebrities.[20]Single source

Vardaro's 1933 test recording, which Victor never issued, is the only song repeated in Tango By Year (in Tango 1933); the 1953 disc is a second and last chance to hear him lead.[20]Single source

Vardaro moves from a line to double stopping (as in Tchaikovsky's concerto) to very fast articulated notes and still sounds like tango violin, unlike Francini who sounds classical when he does it.[20]Single source

Mia — composed by Elvino Vardaro[5]Single source

Imaginación — composed by Elvino Vardaro[7]Single source

Dominio — composed by Elvino Vardaro[8]Single source

Te llama mi violín — composed by Elvino Vardaro[9]Single source