The recording ‘Tango Perpetuel’ features the Take Four Guitar Quartet performing music by Piazzolla, Stravinsky and Ginastera, plus the rather less well-known Patrick Roux, Unto Mononen, Ernesto Nazareth, Stefan Wolpe, Christopher Grafschmidt and Martin Ackerman.
On this anthology the four guitarists illustrate tango’s many facets from the drama of Piazzolla’s Argentinian tango nuevo through the lightness of the Brazilian Nazareth and the subtle irony of European classicists Stravinsky and Stefan Wolpe to tango from Finland and original works written especially for the programme. The Take Four Guitar Quartet - Pia Grees, Johan Fostier, Matthias Kläger and Luc Vander Borght - come from Germany and Belgium but all four studied in Paris under the Spanish classical guitarist Alberto Ponce.
The quartet itself was formed in 1999 and has achieved great success with regular concerts around the world ever since.
