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Biagi

207 recordings · 11 singers · 110 with video · 1938–1966
Years all 207 recordings
1938
1966
01 Discography

Every recording, on a timeline

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02 Output

Recordings per year

How much they recorded, year by year, split by genre, or by vocal versus instrumental.

03 Voices

Singers & instrumentals

Each row is a singer; every block a year they recorded. Darker blocks = more recordings that year. Click a block to see (and play) what's inside.

04 Compositions

From the leader's own pen

Tangos the orchestra recorded that its leader also composed.

05 Who featured

Singers & musicians

Everyone who recorded or played with the orchestra. Each card links to their page, so you can follow a singer or player to the other orchestras they featured in.

06 The team

Eras and lineups

Who was in the band, and when. Each era joins to the recordings tagged to it, so lineups the corpus can't name are added over time.

Era and lineup research by Tango Sparks. Endless gratitude to them for documenting who played in each orchestra, and for sharing it so generously. Go explore their wonderful work.

Led throughout by Rodolfo Biagi on piano. Each era below is a chapter of the orchestra's lineup. The ones still marked as not documented are waiting to be filled in.

  1. 1938–1943

    The early orquesta

    80 recordings
    4 bandoneón4 violín

    Biagi's staccato piano over a 4 to 5 violin, 4 to 5 bandoneón formation. Marcos Larroca on violin throughout, with the lead bandoneón passing from Alfredo Attadía to Miguel Bonano to Jorge Argentino Fernández.

  2. 1943–1950

    The middle years

    59 recordings
    4 bandoneón4 violín

    Marcos Larroca stayed on violin until near his death in 1949; the lead bandoneón of this stretch is uncertain.

  3. 1950–1956

    The Hugo Duval years

    21 recordings
    4 bandoneón4 violín

    The Columbia era, with the iconic Biagi singer Hugo Duval. Juan Migliore on bandoneón, Oscar de la Fuente on violin and arrangements, alongside Adolfo Muzzi.

  4. 1956–1961

    56-61 Columbia

    22 recordings

    Lineup not documented yet.

  5. 1962–1966

    The final sides

    19 recordings
    4 bandoneón4 violín

    The last recordings, with Juan Migliore on bandoneón and Adolfo Muzzi on first violin after Oscar de la Fuente left for his own orquesta.

  6. 1940–1965

    Unassigned

    6 recordings

    These recordings aren't sorted into an era yet.