La Cumparsita Grade 4

This is a great piece.  I am posting this one for Bronwyn who is presenting it for Leaving Cert practical. It is not very hard to play and appeared on the ABRSM Grade 3  syllabus in recent years. Compare these two versions. It needs to be played with lots of attack. Keep the bows heavy but short. In the second part,  you can play around with the bowing  varying between playing legato or heavy detached bowing. It is a dance and the tempo needs to be steady and marked .  The silence between the notes is as important as the notes here.
Look out for tangos by  Argentinian composers, Gardel and Piazzola