Malando in Concertzender Live
and Exitos Musicales
 

Malando died in 1980 but many of his compositions are still played regularly
by tango orchestras all over the world. In the Netherlands, his grandson
Danny is keeping his name alive with his own orchestra. But some of his compositions, such as ‘Castellana Suite’, ‘Los Ríos’, ‘Recuerdos de Buenos
Aires’ and ‘Cordilleras de Los Andes’ are threatened with obscurity. Even Malando himself performed them only a few times for the radio. Malando

The Concertzender broadcast a 12-part series about Malando in 2009. At that time, we did not expect to be surprised by a performance of a then unknown work, the Suites, a composition that makes such demands that
it had never been issued on record.

That was until the well-known 40-man strong Fanfare orches-
tra Pius X from Poeldijk took an interest in performing these pieces, in a version by the conductor Geert Schrijvers, in Theater De Veste in Delft. During the concert, Malando's life story was also told
in words and images by Bas Liebeek.

The Concertzender, which is always interested in such special events, suggested that the concert should be performed again so that it could be recorded by Wijnand de Groot. And that is what happened, so that we are now able to both broadcast the composition and perserve it for posterity. The performance can be heard in in the programme ‘Exitos Musicales’ on Friday 2 May 22:00-23:00 and in the pro-
gramme Concertzender Live! on Friday 30 May 17:00-18:00 uur. Both programmes will also be repeated at a later date and will be available via radio on demand. We are particularly grateful to one the original Malando-experts Alois Broeke who was able to convince Geert Schrijvers to produce his arrangement of the piece for the Pius X orchestra.

Broadcasts:

  • Exitos Musicales, Friday 2 May 22.00-23.00
  • Concertzender live, Friday 30 May 17.00-18.00

 

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