Tango Passion

Tango Soul – Tango Pasión
How Italian workmen created the tango

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.