For over a century, Argentine tango has been used to express the ardour of the most intimate feelings. It has continued to evolve, responding to the changing sensitivity of generations of tango lovers. On New Year’s Eve, accompanied by the NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra led by Christian Danowicz, the world stars of contemporary tango will perform. Let the first night of the New Year become Noche de Tango – a night of passion and senses!
The very beginnings of the history of this dance and the music that accompanied it show tango as an object of constant change. The first to experience this at the end of the 19th century were the patrons of dance clubs in the shady districts of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, and also brothels – this belief was popularised by Jorge Luis Borges. It was created as a fusion of Spanish flamenco, Argentine milonga and Cuban habanera. It took over twenty years before this new, sensual dance became socially accepted, which paved the way for its popularity in Europe during World War I – the so-called tango mania. It may seem surprising, that in the 1920s, the previously cheerful tango became serious, which distinguished it from the carefree mainstream of pop culture reacting to the horrors of war. The bandoneon is inextricably linked to the story of tango. During the New Year's Eve concert, we will listen to the most talented bandoneonists of the contemporary scene: heirs of the tango nuevo legend Juan José Mosalini. His son Juanjo Mosalini certainly owes his skills to him, and Simone Tolomeo and Carmela Delgado are proudly counted among the master’s students. Lysandre Donoso, who inherited his first bandoneon from his grandfather, who came from Poland, also played with Mosalini’s Grand Tango Orchestra. The vocalist Sandra Rumolino, who made her debut in the famous Parisian cabaret Les Trottoirs de Buenos Aires, took part in the Argentine master’s concerts.
The excellent musicians will perform the most famous and at the most beautiful traditional tangos. There will be classics by Anîbal Troilo, Carlos Gardel or the hit La cumparsita by Uruguay’s Gerard Matos Rodríguez. In the second part of the concert we will listen to a suite by Astor Piazzolla – the fantastic Las cuatro estaciones porteñas. In Poland, this piece is known under the title The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, while the Spanish term porteño suggests an unobvious context: it means a person living in a port city. Such a city is Buenos Aires or… Wrocław.