Ángel D'Agostino
21 discos en 12 episodios (14 suenan aquí), más 1 capítulos que los mencionan, en el orden en que ocurrió la música.
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1940
Muchacho
Ángel Vargas
Picked to highlight the double bass and D'Agostino's spacious piano texture behind Vargas's famously 'small' but exquisitely phrased voice.
1941
Tres esquinas
Ángel Vargas
One of the D'Agostino-Vargas classics most dancers already know, from the first batch D'Agostino recorded that year starting in July.
Adiós, Arrabal
Ángel Vargas
Stenvoll changed his mind and played this dialogue song instead of the planned El Choclo, to show D'Agostino's softer, more relaxed sound after the high-energy tracks before it.
Solo en el episodio
Agua florida
Ángel Vargas
A tango whose strange bookend introduction was the opening for a talk on Agua Florida, the eau de cologne whose smell takes the singer back to the early days of tango.
Traigan caña
Ángel Vargas
A heavy lyric about drinking away pain, with beautiful bandoneón work and a clean Tango Tunes transfer.
Solo en el episodio
El choclo
Ángel Vargas
Stenvoll's promised El choclo: the first recording with lyrics sung; also a subtle D'Agostino piano at the end.
El Choclo
Ángel Vargas
Chosen for D'Agostino's unusually clean, spacious 'crystalline' piano playing on a classic number.
1942
A la carta
Ángel Vargas
Opens the show with a lesser-known D'Agostino/Vargas number about boys playing cards.
Solo en el episodio
Así me gusta a mí
Ángel Vargas
A playful milonga paired with A la carta; Lavocah notes D'Agostino's rare piano solo in it.
1944
Mano blanca
Ángel Vargas
A song that sounds romantic but is actually about a milkman's cart-horse with white hooves.
Solo en el episodio
Yo soy de Parque Patricios
Ángel Vargas
A D'Agostino-Vargas number to round out the pairing's 1944 showing, already represented once in the main show.
Palais de Glace
Ángel Vargas
A second D'Agostino-Vargas title, back to back with the first.
1945
A pan y agua
Ángel Vargas
A bizarre 1920 tango about military service that starts normally and breaks into a fast milonga; Dag calls it perhaps the least danceable D'Agostino ever, kept for its crystalline piano.
Hotel Victoria
Ángel Vargas
Afterparty: Lavocah plays it for D'Agostino's one-note piano introduction, which he calls one of the most perfect solos in tango.
Solo en el episodio
No vendrá
Ángel Vargas
Afterparty: a second D'Agostino and Vargas side from a year full of good ones.
1946
La Cumparsita
Ángel Vargas
The last year Vargas recorded with D'Agostino; chosen partly to showcase D'Agostino's crystalline piano introduction.
El Morocho y el Oriental
Ángel Vargas
Named for nicknames of Carlos Gardel ('El Morocho') and José Razzano ('El Oriental', from Uruguay).
Solo en el episodio
1947
Alma de bohemio
Tino García
D'Agostino's spacious, stretched-out phrasing on a song usually associated with Alberto Podestá and Francini-Pontier.
Milonga para Gardel
Ángel Vargas
An unusually tender milonga wishing Gardel, dead since 1935, had lived to grow old instead of dying at his most famous.
Solo en el episodio
1949
CapítuloWhy D'Agostino's singer sounds like D'Agostino
D'Agostino wouldn't leave his cafe.
1954
Carnaval de mi barrio
Rubén Cané
A slower, glossier D'Agostino with reverb now added to the tape, and a singer who sounds like Ángel Vargas; set against the 1939 version with Rita Morales.
1955
Café Domínguez
D'Agostino's own composition, played with its famous glosa about a real, now-vanished café on the old, narrow Calle Corrientes.
Tango By Year es de Dag Stenvoll y Michael Lavocah, publicado aquí con su permiso. El audio suena desde SoundCloud.