Verano Porteno by Piazzolla arr. by Pius Cheung

Verano Porteno (Buenos Aires Summer) is part of a set of four tangos compositions by Astor Piazzolla called EstacionesPortenas or The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires.  My arrangement for solo marimba originally began as a transcription of Piazzolla’s own recording with his quintet.  However, the deeper I delved into Piazzolla’s recordings of his own music, the more I realized that being one person with limited experience with the tango genre, I will never be able to compare up to the original.  Therefore, I decided to take more of an arrangement approach, taking the original theme of the piece and improvising with it on the marimba until I found something comfortable.  

Pius Cheung