Modern Tango World N° 10 (Athens, Greece) | Page 43

Sverre Indris Joner: Con Cierto Toque de Tango
The Norwegian composer Sverre Indris Joner is recognized by most tangophiliacs as musical
director-composer-arranger-pianist of the electrotango formation Electrocutango. However, he
has sides to discover, and mostly all have to do with his weakness for Latin America´s music. With
this new recording, we find a richness of his creative classical output with new tango compositions
played with his old group Tango for 3
— Sverre Indris Joner (piano). Per Arne
Glorvigen (bandoneón), Odd Hannisdal
(violin), and Steinar Haggerud (double
bass). The recording includes a violin
concerto in three movements— milonga,
zamba and tango — played by solo vio-
linist Henning Kraggerud with the Nor-
wegian Radio Orchestra, and a concert
in three movements played by Tango for
3 and string orchestra.
The violin concert and also the Concerto
grosso are typical artistic compositions
for a concert hall audience. But, they
have all the ingredients of contemporary
tango — dynamic contrasts, syncopated
accents, soulful passion and cold distance.
Joner avoids tango clichés and has writ-
ten true contemporary tangos. The other
seven compositions on this album, played
by orchestra and the quartet, could be
played at more open-minded dance ven-
ues. The dynamic milonga Retrolonga
from Electrotango´s album Felino works
great as an orchestral piece of music.
My favorite songs are the sugar-sweet string serenade Mil vias, a melodically rather simple but high-
ly devotional written for his wife, the soulful Mi Viejo dolor, written for his mother, with beautiful
bandoneon and violin lines, and the reluctant Victorioso, written for his daughter, with its beautiful
contemplative mood. - Great! These songs alone are worth the CD.
Overall Scoring: ****
Dancer´s pleasure < Listener´s pleasure
Duration: 75 min.
Artist´s website: http://www.indris.net
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