Tangos by Carlos Gardel, Aníbal Troilo and Astor Piazzolla
Argentine music by Carlos Guastvino, Alberto Ginastera, Ariel Ramirez and Alberto Williams
Folkloric music by Jose Bragato and Jorge Cafrune

The Chamber Music Company celebrates the vibrant, dark-hued music of Argentina with a mixed programme of folksong, popular classics and, of course, tango.

Argentina has one of the richest musical heritages of any country in the world – an intoxicating mixture of indigenous, black and European. Until then 1880s the gaucho reigned supreme, and his music filled the great spaces of the pampas. But when Buenos Aires became industrialised a huge workforce of Italian migrants entered the country, and the old traditional country songs and dances were transformed. The result: Tango!!

Hear the great music of the wide open spaces – the chacareras, zambas and bailcitos; hear music of the gauchos, and hear tango as you’ve never heard it before – as a part of its true Argentine heritage.

CMC and Latin America
The Chamber Music Company has a close association with the music of Latin America. CMC was bequeathed a treasury of 20th Century Latin American songs and chamber music, creating from that a poetic and musical history of Latin America for BBC Radio 3 – The Twilight of the Iguana. Following work in Bolivia and Peru, and collaborations with tango band La Mariposa Tango and Mauricio Venegas’ Qimantu, CMC produced its first Latin American Roadshow in London – a multi-disciplinary celebration of tango, bossa nova, guitars, performance poetry, puppetry and dance. With the Mariposa Tango, CMC collaborated on a landmark production of Piazzolla’s tango operita, Maria de Buenos Aires, for Dartington International Festival.

Tango Soul – Tango Pasión: intoxicating music from Argentina, chacareras, zambas and tangos – all telling the story of how Italian migrants took the music of the pampas and created …  tango

Friedmann Concert 1
SCHUBERT              String Trio in Bb
STRAUSS                  Piano Quartet
FRIEDMANN           Piano Quintet

Friedmann Concert 2
DVORAK                   Piano Quintet in A
FRIEDMANN          Piano Quintet

For more information about CMC’s Rare Music Series please click here.

CMC produces top of the range entertainment in the Classical field, dramatically conceived. From imaginatively presented Classics to the wilds of the Silk Road via German cabaret or the latest New Music, the Company is at the cutting edge of UK music.

We currently run the following projects:

CMC Classics: the great classics of the Classical repertory, imaginatively presented

The CMC Rare Music Series: Rediscoveries from the classical tradition

Second Glance: the second performance festival of new music

Latin American Roadshow: London’s local Latin American festival

Far East Roadshow: multifaceted cultural collision of east & west

I’m A Stranger Here Myself: German Cabaret of Kurt Weill

There’s potential to find some great voices and give them opportunities to sing in India – something impossible up to now for singers of western style music. Opera is not so different from Bollywood – it’ll be a great opportunity to start off a new phenomenon in India.

Skin-stretching heat, mosquitos both black and white, enough food to sink a tanker and drink to irrigate the Kalahari, autorickshaws bent on reaching heaven early, pollution you can cut with a knife and noise enough to drive beast to water …. India is unforgettable and essential.

Eight students in Goa, ten in Bombay kept us more than busy. The standard was bracingly low at first, but all made the most outstanding progress with incredible speed. The lack of available teachers means that students accept good teaching and drink it down wholesale. And they remember it.  The over-tutored blasé west should take note!

CMC Classics – Schubert, Brahms & Piazzolla in performance. Following several successful and delighted concerts CMC’s trio presents two great classical trios – Schubert’s B flat and Brahms’ B – and mixes them with intense Tango Nuevo trio arrangements from the grand man of tango – Astor Piazzolla

CMC Rare Music Series: Concert 3 – Ignaz Friedman piano Quintet One of the world’s great pianists was also a fluent composer – mainly of songs and miniatures. CMC are delighted to present his Vienna-inspired piano quintet.

Far East Roadshow: Inspired by China on tour: new Chinese-British collaborations featuring Yin Yang collective and Chinese dancers

Tango Soul-Tango Pasión: CMC’s new arrangements of tango classics and their Argentine inspirations – the pampas, gauchos, música folclórica, Carlos Gardel and Aníbal Troilo…. Argentine guitar

Deconstructing The Trout – a fresh look at classic repertoire. We have commissioned two new quintets with the Trout line-up, one already completed by Steve McNeff. We are creating a bold new performance method for this great work, with new variations and composers’  interpolations between the movements - in our new version the Trout will last an entire evening!

China’s greatest villain

China’s most beautiful woman

Together they created China’s greatest love story

The true story of China’s Immortal Beauty, the Tang Dynasty concubine Yang Guifei, is one of China’s great love stories. The creative team of Kenneth Clarke (writer), Richard Daniels (composer) and Mark Troop (co-composer and arranger) has lifted the tale out of China’s 8th Century history, turning it into a vehicle for the 21st Century - Sacrifice. Thus one of China’s great love stories is transformed into one of the world’s great love stories. Sacrifice is scheduled to open in the West End in 2012. www.Sacrificeworldwide.com

Piazzolla: Primavera Portena; Oblivion, Otono Porteno; Sur

Brahms Trio in B major