Pablo Ziegler & Lara St. John:
Astor Piazzolla's Central Park Concert

with the Pablo Ziegler Tango Quartet
featuring Hector Del Curto, bandoneón
Claudio Ragazzi, guitar and Pedro Giraudo, bass

“There's no question that Ziegler takes the tango to levels of sophistication and refinement probably undreamed of by Piazzolla."
— Chicago Tribune

“Lara St. John happens to be a volcanic violinist with a huge, fabulous tone that pours out of her like molten lava. She has technique to burn and plays at a constant high heat.”
— Los Angeles Times

Following the wild success of a 2012 concert that drew the largest crowd to Central Park's Naumburg Orchestral Concerts in the series' 107 years, acclaimed violinist Lara St. John and Pablo Ziegler, the Argentine pianist and composer who helped shape the modern tango, are now offering that concert as a special touring program that celebrates tango grand-maestro Astor Piazzolla's famous Central Park Concert.

The program includes some of the late Argentine composer's most beloved works, as well as exquisite compositions by Ziegler. The line-up features the same instrumentation as Piazzolla's iconic New Tango Quintet with which Ziegler played for a decade.

Writes New York Music Daily about the Naumburg concert: "They dug deeply into the material right from the start, with a brightly glimmering, hard-hitting version of 'Michaelangelo', then played up the jazz and ragtime aspects of 'Muerte Del Angel', then brought the lights down with the dirge 'Introduccion Del Angel', bandoneon and violin sailing over the murk below. [...] The audience responded thunderously."