Duo tango

Fabrice Pierrat is a French guitarist who is one half of Duo Amazone along with flautist Michaelle Ngo Yamb Ngan and presumably he wrote this for their partnership. He seems to specialise in composing and arranging music based on South American rhythms so here we have a skillfully-composed tango definitely of that kind. Duo Tango brims with many and varied rhythms, nice melody lines and lots of interplay between the two instruments which, technically are on the same level. The work is thoroughly enjoyable and skillfully constructed. For several years now there has been a revival of that most enigmatic musical form, the tango, most notably tango nuevo and as this piece captures the characteristics of this style in such a brilliant manner there is no reason why Duo Tango should not become a standard amongst advanced flute and guitar duos. Steve Marsh (Classical Guitar Magazine)