Tango à trois - Tangos by Peter Ludwig

Tango - a mixture of powerful feelings, great passion, deep melancholy…
Wonderfully emotional music that, in the hands of Tango à trois, is an exciting experience, even without the dancing.
The pieces are a charming combination of the plaintive, soulful Argentinian tango and its light-footed European counterpart, of bossa nova, cool jazz and classical chamber music.

In 1983, Peter Ludwig, a tango addict for over thirty years now, founded the legendary ensemble "Tango Mortale" together with cellist Anja Lechner. Countless engagements at home and abroad testify to their huge success. As a composer and arranger, Peter Ludwig interprets the tango very much in his own style. His tangos are not of the exclusively gloomy, depressive and darkly emotional type we know from Argentina. His instrumental arrangements are characterised by his inspired imaginative power, which with each piece of music takes us on excursions into realms of fantasy and tells us stories of life, love and misfortune. 

"Is the tango really so deeply mournful the way we like to think it is, or is it a kind of calculated pride which makes a lover out of feelings of melancholy, in order to break the heart of the listener?  Is it absolutely necessary to understand the origins of the tango to be able to play it? It's just there, invented for us to become its slave and nothing else; it's there so that we can't imagine going on living without it. If you really want to learn anything about the tango, then you've got to play it, dance it, or listen to it, or compose it."  
Peter Ludwig

In the trio "Tango à trois", which was formed in 2005, Peter Ludwig has joined forces with two congenial and supremely proficient interpreters of his compositions.