Orquesta Escuela

If you want to listen to the Orquesta Escuela, better to go here. The concert footage is great, but the sound isn't wonderful. In the past month Varchausky's association, Tangovia, has uploaded many clips of concert footage onto YouTube, and a few of historic film, including this magical film of the Orquesta Francini-Pontier in Japan. For emotional and musical clarity it can hardly be equalled. The orquesta split up in the mid-1950s. Enrique Francini was a marvellous violinist: can't help thinking he would have been equally at home in the Mendelssohn violin concerto.