Marcelo Álvarez, tenor
Néstor Marconi, bandoneon
Fernando Suárez-Paz, violin
Pablo Ziegler, piano
Mauricio Cardozo, guitar
Héctor Console, bass
Jorge Calandrelli, music director, conductor.
Recorded April 1999 at Auditorio Belgrano and El Pie Studios, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Companion album to the film Marcelo Álvarez: In Search of Gardel.
Song titles also in English, with full translations included, on insert:
01 First I'll Drink, Then You Join Me
02 Loneliness
03 The Day You Come To Love Me
04 By Just A Nose
05 To Go Back
06 We're Even
07 Downhill
08 Swallows
09 Melody From The Poor Part Of Town
10 Little Path
11 One Night She Came Back
12 Street Party
13 My Beloved Buenos Aires.
An unusual and appreciated feature of this disc are the full lyrics on the insert. Carlos Gardel uses a rich vocabulary in his songs, but I've never seen another album with lyrics included. This is a quality production with a fine operatic tenor making the most of the music.