Navidad de Los Andes is an album by Argentine bandoneon player and composer Dino Saluzzi

Dino Saluzzi

Timoteo "Dino" Saluzzi is an Argentine musician.The son of popular carpero composer and instrumentalist Cayetano Saluzzi, Dino played the bandoneón since his childhood...

 with cellist Anja Lechner and saxophonist Felix Saluzzi recorded in 2010 and released on the ECM label.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "While the music here is often brooding, it is never less than poetic, and often approaches the sublime".

Track listing

All compositions by Dino Saluzzi except as indicated

1. "Flor de Tuna" - 7:39
2. "Sucesos" - 6:47
3. "Fragments" - 3:36
4. "Son Qo'ñati" - 3:40
5. "Requerdos de Bohemia" (Enrique Delfino, Manuel Romero
   Manuel Romero
   Manuel Romero was an Argentine film director, screenwriter , dramatist and score composer, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era...
   
   ) - 7:45
6. "Gabriel Kondor" - 6:01
7. "El Vals de Nostros" (Carlos Aparicio, Saluzzi) - 3:22
8. "Candor/Soledad" (Carlos Gardel
   Carlos Gardel
   Carlos Gardel was a singer, songwriter and actor, and is perhaps the most prominent figure in the history of tango. He was born in Toulouse, France, although he never acknowledged his birthplace publicly, and there are still claims of his birth in Uruguay. He lived in Argentina from the age of two...
   
   , Saluzzi) - 4:07
9. "Variaciones Sobre una Melodía Popular de José L. Padula" - 6:58
10. "Ronda de Niños en la Montaña" - 5:15
11. "Otoño" - 5:18
    • Recorded at Auditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera in Lugano, Switzerland in July 2010

Personnel

• Dino Saluzzi
  Dino Saluzzi
  Timoteo "Dino" Saluzzi is an Argentine musician.The son of popular carpero composer and instrumentalist Cayetano Saluzzi, Dino played the bandoneón since his childhood...
  
   — bandoneón
  Bandoneón
  The bandoneón is a type of concertina particularly popular in Argentina and Uruguay. It plays an essential role in the orquesta típica, the tango orchestra...
  
  
• Anja Lechner — cello
  Cello
  The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
  
  
• Felix Saluzzi — tenor saxophone
  Tenor saxophone
  The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the alto, are the two most common types of saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B, and written as a transposing instrument in the treble...