Piazzolla, Adios Nonino

Nonino, Piazzolla, Nonina

 

Astor Piazzolla, Adios Nonino

Astor Piazzolla, bandoneon

Sinfónica "Cologne Radio Orchestra" de Alemania

 

Astor Piazzolla, Adios Nonino

Astor Piazzolla, bandoneon / Fernando Suarez Paz, violín / Pablo Ziegler, piano /

Oscar López Ruiz, guitarra / Héctor Console, contrabajo

 

The subtitles in Japanese say "Westdeutscher Rundfunk Studios in 1980". This version was broadcast 1997 by NHK and also released 2001 on VHS/DVD "Five Tangos", recorded really April 4th, 1981

 

Astor Piazzolla, Adios Nonino

André Rieu, violin / Carlos Buono, bandoneon 

The Johann Strauss Orchestra, live in Maastricht, Netherlands 2013

 

The royal wedding of king Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands

and queen Máxima Zorreguieta of the Netherlands

 

2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia

 

In 1959, Piazzolla was on a tour of Central America when, during a presentation in Puerto Rico with Juan Carlos Copes and Maria Nieves Rego, he received news of the death of his father, Vicente Piazzolla, nicknamed Nonino, due to a bicycle accident in his hometown of Mar del Plata. This news, coupled with the tour's failure, economic problems and homesickness, led Piazzolla to depression. After returning to his family's temporary residence in New York on October 1959 he composed this wonderful work in tribute to his father, based on "Nonino", another tango Astor had composed five years earlier in Paris, also dedicated to Vicente Piazzolla.   “When I got back to New York a few days later, I asked to be alone in a room in the apartment, and in less than an hour I wrote Adiós Nonio. And then I cried as I had few times before in my life…In that piece I left all the memories I had of my dad.” Astor Piazzolla   "Dad asked us to leave him alone for a few hours. We went into the kitchen. First there was absolute silence, we heard that playing bandoneon. It was a very sad, terribly sad melody. Adiós Nonino was composing." Daniel Piazzolla (Son of Astor Piazzolla) 1986   The piece was played at the royal wedding of king Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and queen Máxima Zorreguieta of the Netherlands (in homage to her Argentinian roots). It was also used by Jeffrey Buttle as his short program music for 2007-08 figure skating season, which includes his 2008 world Champion win. 2010 Olympic champion Kim Yuna also used this piece as her Free Skate music for the 2013-14 figure skating season, which includes her 2014 Winter Olympics silver medal performance.