Probably the largest tango orchestra in Europe with 10 bandoneons plus 10 violins, piano, double bass and tuba give an idea of how energetic, furious, complex and dynamic the tango sounded in Buenos Aires in its heyday in the 1940s. CARAMBOLAGE brings this time back to life.
"The tango is the most beautiful dance there is. You have to approach it with vigour, with a lot of tenderness and many hours of work." This quote from Antonio Todaro illustrates the basic attitude of this great orchestra, which has dedicated itself to Argentine tango. It is a dance, but even more so a music full of emotion, elegance, sophistication and wonderfully playful improvisation. It tells of longings and missed opportunities, of love and suffering and some of life's wonderful moments. Telling these stories with musical means is one of the many talents of these marvellous musicians.
The tango would be unthinkable without the bandoneon. Even in the early 20th century, the instrument was a formative component of an "Orquesta Típica". Its influence remains unbroken in Piazzolla's "Tango Nuevo" and even in the electrotango. Widely sung about and revered in South America for decades, the bandoneon is considered "the best of all German inventions"; it was developed and built in Saxony in 1840.
Jürgen Karthe, founder of "Cuarteto Bando" and "Duo Amoratado", who has played as a soloist with the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Munich Symphony Orchestra, among others, but has also performed in Buenos Aires, London, Yokohama, Istanbul, Paris and Moscow, fulfilled his heart's desire with the Saxon-Thuringian-Franconian orchestra "CARAMBOLAGE", which was founded in 2011.
