M U S I C   L I S T E N I N G   S A M P L E S  

Samples of my piano playing in various styles and situations.

The titles below are links to MP3s or YouTube. Click on the song titles to play. If you click a link, it should simply play automatically, depending on your browser. Right click, or ctrl-click, or apple-click, to save it to your disk. They are necessarily lower quality mono encodings; if you would like to hear high-quality recordings, just contact me, and i can easily send you something.


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TRASNOCHE [www.trasnochetango.com] is a quintet devoted to performing new music. All its members have a solid trajectory and come together in this project with the common goal of performing new compositions and arrangements based or inspired mainly, but not only, by Argentine tango music.
TRASNOCHE on Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/5tnwxCBENDk8psvu8U3HUH
The videos of Adios Nonino and Balada para mi muerte were performed with Beatriz Aguiar and the Rotterdam Philharmonic String Quartet. The video of Maria was performed with Omar Mollo and the GoYa Quartet.
Estaciones   (Astor Piazzolla, arr. Santiago Cimadevilla)
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Trasnoche
Responso   (Anibal Troilo, arr. Santiago Cimadevilla)
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Trasnoche
Balada para mi muerte   (Astor Piazzolla, arr. Santiago Cimadevilla)
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Trasnoche
Adios Nonino   (Astor Piazzolla, arr. Santiago Cimadevilla)
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Trasnoche
Maria   (Anibal Troilo, arr. Santiago Cimadevilla)
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Trasnoche
DWDD   (A tribute to Lionel Messi)
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Trasnoche

Bandola zurdo was a tango quintet, active 2004--2007, which played Piazzolla, Quinteto Réal, and original tunes. This international quintet consisted of young argentine, uruguayan, german and american musicans, and its members have performed in those countries and all over Europe, South America and the US. Hotel Victoria we recorded at the Rotterdam Conservatory (CodArts). Adios Nonino was recorded at CasaMirjam studio in Amsterdam. The group: Dario Polonara, bandoneón; Juan Otero, guitar; Nicolas Giordano, violin; Mark Wyman, piano; and Boris Franz, bass.
Hotel Victoria   (Feliciano Latasa)
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Bandola zurdo
Adios Nonino   (Astor Piazzolla)
(excerpt - piano cadenza)
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Bandola zurdo


Racing Club was a tango quintet based in Amsterdam, an argentine/dutch group in which a new generation of musicians put its mark on the tango tradition (to quote the web site). This group did our own arrangements, and Quinteto Réal, Guardia vieja, Troilo, Garello and Pugliese. It featured also a singer, Maria José Ortíz, and Martijn van der Linden, violin; Santiago Cimadevilla, bandoneón; Marcos di Paolo, guitar; and Daniel Lehmann, bass.
Derecho viejo   (Eduardo Arolas)
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Racing club
Negracha   (Osvaldo Pugliese)

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Racing club


Orquesta Amago was one of the few orquesta típicas of Europe. This group had two bandoneons, three violins, cello, bass and piano. We played for dance; that was the purpose. These samples are from two sources: the first, A la gran muñeca, was recorded for our demo, and the last two, Romance de barrio and Oblivión, were recorded live in concert.
A la gran muñeca   (Jesús Ventura)
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Orquesta Amago
Romance de barrio   (Anibal Troilo)
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Orquesta Amago
Oblivión   (Astor Piazzolla)

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Orquesta Amago


Hernán Ruíz is a fantastic argentine guitar player living in Amsterdam. He plays tango and folkloric beautifully. Along with Hernan, this Trio had Juan Otero on guitarrón, and Dario Polonara on bandoneón. These recordings are from a live gig at the Vondelpark, Amsterdam, and i was guest pianist. It is more or less a la parrilla.
El choclo   (Ángel Gregorio Villoldo)
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Hernán Ruíz Trio
Palomita blanca   (Anselmo Alfredo Aieta)
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Hernán Ruíz Trio
Danzarín   (Julián Plaza)

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Hernán Ruíz Trio