This playlist focuses on the orchestra of Ricardo Tanturi, with instrumentals, and songs featuring his two best known vocalists, Alberto Castillo and Enrique Campos. This music is generally rhythmic, but it is very interesting to see how much the vocalist can influence the feeling of the music. Tanturi’s vocalists give dancers a lot to work with.

The playlist starts with two instrumentals. These are straight ahead rhythmic tangos with lots of fun energy and lots of rhythmic variations to play with.

There are six tangos featuring Alberto Castillo. The orchestra is still primarily rhythmic, but the vocalist adds so much. The melodies are beautiful, and Castillo’s voice soars. I particularly like Cancion De Rango.

The last five songs in the playlist are sung by Enrique Campos whose mellow voice lends a very different feeling to these songs. The orchestra plays more complex rhythms, sometimes the rhythms can be confusing to dancers not intimately familiar with this phase of Tanturi’s orchestra. Campos was able to sing so smoothly over these rhythm variations giving dancers the option of dancing more to the melody. It is a nice contrast to dance smoothly with the vocalist and feel the complicated rhythms underneath.