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Cuánta angustia

Music by Julián Plaza. 3 recordings in our catalogue, 1957–1957.

Who recorded it

Every version3

Earliest we hold: Miguel Caló, 1957

  1. Carlos Di SarliRoberto Florio1957
  2. Miguel CalóRoberto Arrieta1957
  3. Alfredo GobbiTito Lando1957

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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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

Español

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

The catalogue holds 3 recordings of this song by 3 orchestras, 1957 to 1957.
1950
Recordings of Cuánta angustia by year, taller the more they are danced · 3 of 3 recordings carry a year · read Nov 2, 2026

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

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  1. Carlos Di SarliMost dancedCuánta angustiaCarlos Di SarliRoberto FloriotangoRCA Victor
    9 dances
    1957
  2. Miguel CalóEarliest we holdCuánta angustiaMiguel CalóRoberto ArrietatangoOdeon
    No match yet
    1957
  3. Alfredo GobbiCuánta angustiaAlfredo GobbiTito Landotango
    1 dance
    1957
  4. Alfredo J. GobbiNot in our catalogueTito Landó · Sep 251957
  5. Alberto Oscar GentileNot in our catalogueAlfredo Montalbán
All recordings of Cuánta angustia

One recording

A dated take, with its sound and the couples dancing it.

Carlos Di Sarli

Cuánta angustiaCarlos Di SarliRoberto FloriotangoRCA Victor

Couples filmed dancing this recording · 9 Performances

Danced to it

Music from 1957 · danced on film 2013–2023

20132023
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

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

  1. Pablo Freund and Veronica Toumanova

    LA DOLCE VITA · In upload order: nobody has said the order danced

    1. 1En el rosalJuan D'Arienzo, 1957
    2. 2FarolOsvaldo Pugliese, 1943
    3. 3Cuánta angustiaCarlos Di Sarli, 1957
    4. 4Tu boca mintióJuan D'Arienzo, 1951
    Watch it on TangoTube

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