Alfredo De Angelis

If you explore the many milongas in Buenos Aires, you will instantly recognize the music on Troillo and D'Arienzio, but you will also hear many tandas from orquesta típicas that are not so well known outside Argentina.

Resources

Alfredo De Angelis. (2016, June 8). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved January 17, 2017 from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alfredo_De_Angelis&oldid=724293848

"Alfredo De Angelis". Todotango. Retrieved January 17, 2017. http://www.todotango.com/english/creadores/adeangelis.html

"Alfredo De Angelis". Michael Lavocah. Retrieved January 17, 2017. http://www.milonga.co.uk/tango/deangelis.shtml

Orquesta típica. (2017, January 19). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 21:23, February 27, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Orquesta_t%C3%ADpica&oldid=760824724

These orchestras from the Golden Age remain popular, because their music is fantastic for dancing. One of these orchestras was that of Alfredo De Angelis. His music is pure tango at its best. De Angelis formed his orchestra in 1941 and began recording on the Odeón label in 1943. He remained with them right through to the end of his recording career in 1977.

Orquesta típicas have violins and other stringed instruments, a bandoneón section, a piano, and sometimes a singer or two. There are no drums or other percussion instruments. An orquesta típica is larger than a sexteto tipico, which includes 2 bandoneóns, 2 violins, double bass, and piano. See the Wikipedia article cited below.