"Directing four other fine musicians was the bandoneon of Piazzolla himself - asserting, elaborating, cajoling, and crooning in a way only possible for this instrument with a 'surrealistic life.' A life mirroring the self-acknowledged surrealism of the life of the man playing it - a man who nonetheless succeeded in identifying and speaking to the reality within everyone who heard his music. Astor Piazzolla's The Central Park Concert is a delight verging on pure brilliance." Reviews "This 1987 live concert from New York's Central Park is dynamic, passionate, turbulent, and poignant The quintet plays with razor-sharp precision and complete empathy If you haven't heard Piazzolla's remarkably heartfelt music, there is no better introduction than this CD." - Carl Baugher, Stereophile