Albert Loritz

Cuesta Abajo

Saxophone Quartet (AATB)
Carlos Gardel (1890 - 1935) was one of the leading exponents of
tango before Piazzolla.
The Argentine tango singer and composer's adventurous life is
documented in the relevant specialist literature but also on the
internet, where quite an informative article has been published on
Wikipedia.
The song Cuesta Abajo was featured in the US American movie of the
same name (1934), which has been considered to be one of Gardel'smost famous screen performances. A celebrated tango singer -
just like Gardel himself - is torn between two ladies, two worldsand two cosmopolitan cities, Buenos Aires and Paris.
In this arrangement for saxophone quartet, the individual voices take turns in executing the main melody. The brackets [ ] appearing in
the score and in the individual parts mark the beginning and the end
of those passages where the respective instrument takes the lead.