About few gran orquestas, which belong to the core repertoire of danceable Tango Argentino‘s, opinions today diverge as widely as about De Angelis. There are dancers who do not consider De Angelis to be part of the core repertoire. Only the best valses by De Angelis are hardly questioned, often they are vocal duets. However, this is too short-sighted. De Angelis has so much more to offer to dancers and music lovers alike. And this much more has now become audible.
Many things that were completely unbalanced in previous restorations and were wrongly blamed on the musicians and singers of the time, fall back into place with this restoration.
These recordings were transferred from shellacs and completely restored by TangoTunes in 2021. Hearing De Angelis in this quality for the first time puts many negative opinions about this gran orquesta into perspective. Because listening to it answers many open question. Many things that were completely unbalanced in previous restorations and were wrongly blamed on the musicians and singers of the time, fall back into place with this restoration. When De Angelis’ peculiarity of many high violin sounds is contrasted with a double bass with a foundation and it is clearly audible where bass and grand piano play in unison, the result is a tonal balance that remains a matter of taste but makes perfect sense.…
