Salgán has won numerous awards, including the
Shining Konex in 2005 as the best musician of the
decade. He retired from the stage in 2003. But, he
would often repeat that he had retired from public
life, but not music. He gave a concert in 2010, during the celebrations for the bicentennial of the May
Revolution of 1810 that gave Argentina its independence.
In a duo with guitar virtuoso Ubaldo de Lío, this began a dazzling new phase in Salgán’s career. Liberated
from the need to please the traditional dancers, he
crafted sophisticated instrumentals designed with listeners in mind and achieved a brilliant balance between
tradition and innovation, as music scholars Kacey Link
and Kristin Wendland put it in their book, Tracing
Tangueros. Salgán toyed with counter melodies and
rhythms, and expressively colored his arrangements
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwX4lbJEE34 with lines for viola, cello and bass clarinet, instruments
seldom found in traditional tango. But his best-known
Salgán helped broaden the musical vocab