Song
Cuánta angustia
Who recorded it
Every version3Earliest we hold: Miguel Caló, 1957
Versions of Cuánta angustia recorded 1957
Cuánta angustia is a tango.
Cuánta angustia was composed by Julian Plaza.
The song
The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.
3 orchestras recorded it
10 Dances filmed to it
Who wrote it
- Music
- Julián Plaza
- Words
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- Written
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- First played
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue
Lyrics
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Cuántas veces por vos, he llegado a mentir en el nombre de Dios. ¿No me viste callar, con un gesto feroz, por temor a gritar? No te quedes un minuto más, que mi vida ya no tiene paz. Pero al verte partir, con horror te abracé por temor a morir. ¡Cuánta angustia! ¡Cuánta pena! Todo duele, todo quema... Y quema más y más y duele más la nieve de tu carne de azucena. ¡Cuánta angustia! ¡Cuánto espanto! Es vivir, queriendo tanto. Cuando la vida, nos deja entre los brazos un mísero retazo, de compasión. En mis horas sin Dios, las rodillas doblé, y recé por los dos. Fui pequeño, lo sé, como un alma sin luz que no sueña ni ve. ¡He jugado corazón! Perdí, y la vida se negó total. Hoy que debo pagar ni me pongo a correr, ni me inclino a rezar.
English · machine translation
How many times for you, I have come to lie in the name of God. Didn't you see me shut up, with a fierce gesture, for fear of shouting? Don't stay a minute longer, for my life has no more peace. But as I watched you go with horror I embraced you for fear of dying. How much anguish! How much sorrow! Everything hurts, everything burns.... And it burns more and more and hurts more and more the snow of your lily flesh. How much anguish! How much fear! It is to live, loving so much. When life leaves us in its arms a miserable scrap of compassion, of compassion. In my hours without God I bent my knees, and prayed for both of us. I was small, I know, like a soul without light that neither dreams nor sees. I played my heart out! I lost, and life refused total. Today that I must pay nor do I run, nor bow down to pray.
Every version
Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone
3 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 2 more we know of
a version people dance tono Dances matched yet: something to listen to
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- Carlos Di SarliMost dancedCuánta angustiaCarlos Di SarliRoberto FloriotangoRCA Victor9 dances1957
- Miguel CalóEarliest we holdCuánta angustiaMiguel CalóRoberto ArrietatangoOdeonNo match yet1957
- Alfredo GobbiCuánta angustiaAlfredo GobbiTito Landotango1 dance1957
- Alfredo J. GobbiNot in our catalogueTito Landó · Sep 251957
- Alberto Oscar GentileNot in our catalogueAlfredo Montalbán
One recording
A dated take, with its sound and the couples dancing it.
Couples filmed dancing this recording · 9 Performances
Danced to it
Music from 1957 · danced on film 2013–2023
2013: 1, 2014: 1, 2018: 1, 2019: 3, 2023: 1
Filmed sets
One Couple dancing three or four songs at one Occasion, every song known. What was danced on film, not what a DJ played.
The one complete set on film
Pablo Freund and Veronica Toumanova
LA DOLCE VITA · In upload order: nobody has said the order danced
- 1En el rosalJuan D'Arienzo, 1957
- 2FarolOsvaldo Pugliese, 1943
- 3Cuánta angustiaCarlos Di Sarli, 1957
- 4Tu boca mintióJuan D'Arienzo, 1951
Read more
- EntryJulian PlazaPerson
- EntryRio de angustiaComposition
- EntryQue casualidadComposition
- EntryAnsiedadComposition
- EntryQue vachachéComposition
- EntryQué ironíaComposition
- EntryQue caretaComposition
every sentence cites a published fact
What we don't know yet3 of 4 known
The year it was written.
Data: recordings, facts and sources
In other catalogues2
TodoTango · tema/3133
tango.info · T0370404140
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Is a Tango
Composer1
Composed by Julian Plaza
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