La Boca is a Luxemburgish quintet created in 1998 with the initial intention of interpreting and making better known the repertoire that the Argentine musician Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) composed, between 1979 and 1988, for his Quintetto Tango Nuevo.
Why La Boca? It is the name of a port district of Buenos Aires, the place where the ships carrying the innumerable immigrants from all over the world came ashore. A poor neighborhood with an intense nightlife. A neighborhood where the tango developed, where it was established, this popular genre that soon became world famous.
La Boca did not limit itself to the works of Astor Piazzolla: its musicians enriched their repertoire with great classical tango standards and interpreted scores by Pablo Ziegler, Ramiro Gallo or Rodolfo Mederos.
Some of the members of La Boca have also composed new scores in the spirit and style of this music.
Other composers have also dedicated similar works to them, such as Tango Santa Barbara by Walter Civitareale.
Three CDs have so far been released by La Boca. The third one, Tango Vivaldi, confronts, in an original way, an arrangement of the Four Seasons of Vivaldi and the Four Seasons of Astor Piazzolla, a beautiful way to revive the musical path that led from Europe to the Argentinean port of La Boca, to the tango.