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Ilusión azul · Magaldi-Noda · 1933

Magaldi-Noda · sung · vals · Aug 7, 1933
Music by Arquímedes Arci, lyrics by Arquímedes Arci. 2 recordings in our catalogue, 1945–1964.

Who recorded it

Every version2

Earliest we hold: Alfredo De Angelis, 1945

  1. Alfredo De AngelisCarlos Dante · Roberto Mancini …19451964

Recorded in 1933, during the Guardia Nueva (1920–1934).

1933

19201934

Key facts
Year
1933
Orchestra
Magaldi-Noda
Singers
Magaldi-noda
Recorded
1933-08-07
Contents1The song2Who wrote it3Lyrics4Every version5Read more

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

1 orchestra recorded it

273 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Arquímedes Arci
Words
Arquímedes Arci
Written
not yet cited · help fill it
First played
not yet cited · help fill it

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

Español

Altiva y soberbia, cual diosa pagana, pasaste a mi lado mostrando el rencor y desde aquel día yo sé que he perdido, la gloria inefable de un sueño de amor. No extraño tus besos que fueron fingidos, ni extraño tus labios de raro dulzor... ni me sorprende tu enorme falsía, porque son hermanas: mujer y traición. Yo tan sólo siento de todo tu enojo, el traidor embrujo que tienen tus ojos. Ojos que fueron estrellas que guiaron mi alma, que me roban calma si me niegan crueles cuando ansioso busco su mirar de amor. Ojos que fueron las redes donde prisionero, te adoré sincero y me han hecho esclavo, al poner en mi alma la azul ilusión. Pero tu alma, desdeñosa y fría, no sabía de amores para mi dolor. Fueron tus ojos los que me mintieron tan engañadores, como aquel fulgor. Y ahora arrastro la cadena del recuerdo triste del pasado hermoso, al vivir dichoso en los dorados brazos de aquella ilusión. Amores fingidos son, cual mariposa, como ella engañosa que igual que una flor nos mienten cariño, nos hieren el alma, se llevan la esencia y nos dejan dolor. Pero yo no siento el dolor de la herida que abrió dentro mi alma tu negra traición, tan sólo me duele el fulgor de tus ojos, que ayer me miraron con tierna pasión.

English · machine translation

Haughty and arrogant, like a pagan goddess, you passed by my side showing rancor and since that day I know that I have lost, the ineffable glory of a dream of love. I do not miss your kisses that were feigned, nor do I miss your lips of rare sweetness... nor am I surprised by your enormous falsehood, because they are sisters: woman and betrayal. I only feel of all your anger, the treacherous spell that your eyes have. Eyes that were stars that guided my soul, that rob me of calm if they cruelly deny me when I anxiously seek your loving gaze. Eyes that were the nets where I was a prisoner, I adored you sincere and they have made me a slave, by putting in my soul the blue illusion. But your soul, disdainful and cold, knew no love for my pain. It was your eyes that lied to me as deceitful as that gleam. And now I drag the chain of the sad memory of the beautiful past, to live blissfully in the golden arms of that illusion. Pretend loves are, like a butterfly, like a deceitful butterfly that like a flower they lie to us, they hurt our souls, they take away the essence and leave us pain. But I don't feel the pain of the wound that your black betrayal opened inside my soul, I only feel the pain of the gleam of your eyes, that yesterday looked at me with tender passion.

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 2 recordings of this song by 1 orchestras, 1945 to 1964.
1940’50’60
Recordings of Ilusión azul · Magaldi-Noda · 1933 by year, taller the more they are danced · 2 of 2 recordings carry a year · read Nov 7, 2026

2 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 1 more we know of

a version people dance tono Dances matched yet: something to listen to

The leader is Alfredo De Angelis, with 100% of the 273 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.

42 more dances name this song but not which version, so no share counts them. “No match yet” means no filmed dance is tied to that version so far, not that nobody dances it. Dances whose music we have not identified are left out.

Choose A and B on two recordings to hear them one after the other.

  1. -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueAgustín Magaldi, Pedro Noda · Aug 71933

Read more

  • EntrySoñando · Magaldi-Noda · 1935Recording
  • EntryMis delirios · Magaldi-Noda · 1932Recording
  • EntryChispazos de tradición · Magaldi-Noda · 1933Recording
  • EntryIlusión · Roberto Firpo · 1930Recording
  • EntryAlma mía · Agustin Magaldi · 1936Recording
  • EntryViva el amor · Agustin Magaldi · 1936Recording
  • EntryIlusión · Típica Select · 1920Recording
  • EntryEscúchame Manón · Agustin Magaldi · 1933Recording

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  1. Ilusión azul · Alfredo De Angelis · Carlos Dante · 1945

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