"Tango Monologues" Digital Release (iTunes)

New York, NY (Top40 Charts) "Tango Monologues" - a CD performed by Juan María Solare (piano solo), recorded in October 2009 at the Bösendorfer grand piano of the University of Bremen, Germany, and originally released on 28th Januar 2010 in the label (Label Code 24894).

The album consists of 20 titles, 12 of them composed by the pianist himself. The other 8 are "classics" of the Tango Argentino music such as Astor Piazzolla or Juan Carlos Cobián. Here you will find the complete description of the titles of the CD: https://www.juanmariasolare.com/CD_tango_monologues.html

It's almost 80 minutes of music covering a large part of the range between traditional tango rioplatense and Tango Nuevo - from the most danceable milongas to Solare's "deconstructed tango".

Since 25th May 2013, the CD is available on iTunes, amazon mp3 and over 200 shops. You can also listen to it on spotify, deezer or other streaming services or radios. If you prefer the physical version, head for the pianist's webpage and contact him directly (https://www.juanmariasolare.com/CD_tango_monologues.html).

The critic agrees in that the works included in Tango Monologues are rather to listen to than to dance: "A CD to free oneself of listening habits and let oneself take by the unheard. (...) They are pieces that want to go beyond, that experiment without going astray." (Dagmar Schnürer, magazine TangoDanza, Bielefeld, Germany)

Some reviewers go further and classify this music in the genre "classical" and not "latin" or "world music", the categories in which tango is usually to be found. "Bristling with excellence (...), Tango Monologues is utterly riveting, even mesmerising. It is an exquisite album and a delightful, engrossing listen.." (Rich Rainlore, Rainlore's World, UK)

This aspect -the oscillation between classical music and tango- is key in the music of the album Tango Monologues: "In the case of Solare, his expressive proposal materialises a reinterpretation and original synthesis of the aesthetic values of both extremes of XXth century." (Dr. Julio Ogás, Cuadernos de Música Iberoamericana nr. 24, Madrid)

"Juan Maria Solare gives tango a new face." (Christian Emigholz, Weser Kurier (Bremen, Germany)

"It's traditional, it's modern, vital, always impeccable and most important: in its monologuing transmits its feeling - and moves. (Claudio Ratier, magazine Cantabile -Buenos Aires- nr. 61)

"Seldom can be seen such a generous CD as Tango Monologues. (...) It is perhaps what in rock would be called a concept album." (Eduardo Aldiser, webportal "Argentina es Tango")

"Tengo un tango is one of those songs about which one thinks: how is it possible that it didn't always exist?" (Margarita Pollini, newspaper Ambito Financiero, Buenos Aires)

"Music is his mother tongue." (Donata Holz, Wümme Zeitung, Lilienthal, Germany)

"A full-blooded musician." (Hans-Joachim Brandt, Wümme Zeitung, Lilienthal, Germany)


Pianist & composer Juan María Solare (Buenos Aires, 1966), an Argentine living in Germany, is one of those musicians that open scarcely travelled paths. The originality of his music stems from the confluence between post-Piazzollian tango and classical contemporary music. His singular style represents a synthesis of North and South, classical and popular, wit and melancholy, performance and composition. "Art music and light music are not irreconcilable extremes, but poles in a force field", says Solare about his "musical bilingualism".

Juan Maria has given piano recitals in Buenos Aires and dozens of Argentinean cities, plus Berlin, Istanbul, Finland, Denmark, Amsterdam, Madrid, Graz, Geneva, Seville, London... The audience at his concerts is fascinated by his warmth and quality.

Solare conducts the Orquesta No Típica at the university of Bremen (Germany). At the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen he teaches Composition and Arrangements. As a pianist with over 400 concerts on his account, he has participated at the World Tango Summit on three occasions. He is the editor of four tango albums for the publishing house Ricordi Munich. Twelve CDs by different performers include at least one piece by Juan María Solare.