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Music gift guide: Box sets

Gidon Kremer: The Complete Astor Piazzolla Recordings Sometime in the mid-1990s the great Latvian violinist fell hard for the expressionist tangos of Astor Piazzolla. This is wistful, sly, dream-washed music, and the seven albums bundled here — one of them previously unreleased — are potent cocktails of sensuality and nostalgia for a place you’ve never known.

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