39/2025 - Juan D'Arienzo & Héctor Mauré - Argentine tango tanda
"His interpretation was dramatic and at the same time, melodic. A peculiar voice, with a baritone-tenor range, pleasant timbre and clear diction, strong voice, melodious and with good intonation, clearly influenced by Gardel"
Welcome to this week's tanda!
Fortunately there's so much to go through in the D'Arienzo discography that this blog should never run out of tandas. 😃
This week I wanted to share an old tanda of mine with D'Arienzo and singer Héctor Mauré. The songs are smooth, rhythmical, melancholic and amazing to dance to.
The D'Arienzo / Mauré discography
Their 50 something recordings together between 1940 and 1944 include gems for several tandas of tangos and some vals tandas too. There are plenty of recordings for both uptempo tandas (roughly the 1940-1942 recordings) and midtempo tandas (the 1942-1944).
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Juan D'Arienzo & Héctor Mauré - Argentine tango tanda
- Juan D'Arienzo & Héctor Mauré - Uno 1943
- Juan D'Arienzo & Héctor Mauré - Cicatrices 1942
- Juan D'Arienzo & Héctor Mauré - Si La Llegaran A Ver 1943
- Juan D'Arienzo & Héctor Mauré - Lilián 1944
Juan D'Arienzo & Héctor Mauré - Argentine tango tanda - DJ Antti Suniala
This is a peculiar tanda about torment over lost love, and you could think the love of his life is named in the last song. Oddly Uno is the softest melodic song with the most brutal lyrics of the four songs, while Lilián's lyrics remain rather light, but the arrangement goes extra hard and dramatic, and still they pull off moments of tenderness, if this makes sense?
"[Mauré´s] renditions of the tangos “Amarras”, “Cicatrices” and “Cosas olvidadas” are printed in the anthology of the best tango, because of his warm voice, his Gardelian spirit and his trademark of honest Buenos Aires denizen." - Néstor Pinsón todotango.com
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