The Tango Project was developed as an orquesta típica of sorts, like those that graced cabarets and theaters of Buenos Aires in the 1920s and ‘30s. The group’s first effort, from 1982, became the best-selling classical album of its day, dubbed “the freshest release of the year” by the Christian Science Monitor.
The Tango Project was developed as an orquesta típica of sorts, like those that graced cabarets and theaters of Buenos Aires in the 1920s and ‘30s. The group’s first effort, from 1982, became the best-selling classical album of its day, dubbed “the freshest release of the year” by the Christian Science Monitor.
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Producer: Eric Salzman
Assistant Producer: Susan Herl-Conroy
Recorded November, 1981 at Columbia Studio “B”
Engineering: Roger Mayer, Elektra Sound Recorders
Assistant Engineer: Nancy Byers, CBS Studios, New York
Mastered by Stan Ricker, Mobile Fidelity, Los Angeles, California
Production Coordinator: Elise Keen
All pieces arranged by Michael Sahl; accordion part realization by William Schimmel
Design by Denise Minobe
Paintings by Charles Reid
Director: Keith Holzman
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MUSICIANS
William Schimmel, accordion
Michael Sahl, piano
Stan Kurtis, violin
Richard Henrickson, violin; Russell Savakus, bass (1-3, 5, 8-12)
Susan Herl-Conroy, wood block (11)
