Astor Piazzolla: Aconcagua, Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas

As an instrument, the accordion is deeply rooted in Lithuanian folk music. Martynas Levickis – for years one of the most internationally sought-after musicians in his field – has contributed to a large extent to the fact that it is nowadays also perceived as a versatile instrument of classical music. Astor Piazzolla’s music, with its lightness and melancholy, has fascinated the young accordionist since he was a child, and so it goes without saying that he is dedicating himself to this exceptional composer in his anniversary year. Together with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra he recorded “Aconcagua” live. For conductor Modestas Pitrenas, Piazzolla’s concerto – only posthumously named after the highest mountain in America – “carries the climb to the roof of the earth in all its facets and symbolism: freedom, longing, loneliness, pain, transfiguration, peace.” Levickis has a long and close collaboration with the chamber orchestra “Mikroórkestra”. Together they present their interpretation of “Las Cuatro Estaciones Portenas”, Piazzolla’s timeless masterpieces of the fusion of styles that cast the four seasons in music in Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires.