Otoño Porteño - Juan María Braceras / Pablo Márquez / KlangMundo Kammerorchester

Astor Piazzolla – Otoño Porteño

Juan María Braceras, Violin
Pablo Márquez, Conductor
KlangMundo Orchestra

Otoño Porteño is part of Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas, Astor Piazzolla’s iconic cycle portraying Buenos Aires not as a postcard, but as a lived urban experience - memory, melancholy, transition, and introspection.

Unlike Vivaldi’s Seasons, which depict nature, Piazzolla’s music explores the inner climate of the city. In Otoño Porteño, time seems to slow down: gestures become more reflective, harmonies darker, and the music oscillates between nostalgia and quiet tension, a hallmark of tango nuevo.

This performance highlights:
• the expressive weight of silence and phrasing in Piazzolla’s writing,
• the flexible, breathing sense of time characteristic of his musical language,
• and the dialogue between introspection and latent rhythmic energy.

Composed in the 1960s, Otoño Porteño belongs to a pivotal moment in Piazzolla’s artistic evolution, when tango fully embraced the concert stage, transforming urban emotion into a deeply personal and modern musical discourse.

🎻 Solo Violin: Juan María Braceras
🎼 Composer: Astor Piazzolla
🎶 Orchestra: KlangMundo Orchestra
🎼 Conductor: Pablo Márquez

📍 Recorded in Basel
📅 30.4.2025