It was a view that mixed the bucolic, the nostalgic, the subfusc urban world, and an occasional hint of exoticism.

The atmosphere is deliciously muted and studious, with the rhymes "desk"/ "dusk" conjuring the unspoken word, "subfusc".

The accounts of the later and better known Bandoneon Concerto, and Piazzolla's Buenos Aires equivalent of Vivaldi's Four Seasons, are distinctly subfusc.