Composer: Astor Piazzolla, Sergey Voitenko, Pietro Roffi, Franck Angelis, Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergey Akhunov
Performer: Ksenija Sidorova, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Claudio Constantini, Roberto Koch, Reentko Dirks, Goldmund Quartet
Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester
Conductor: Clark Rundell, Thomas Henglebrock
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Release: 2021
Size: 1.39 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Astor Piazzolla:
01. Chau Paris (Arranged for Accordion, Piano & Double Bass)
Sergey Voitenko:
02. Revelation
Astor Piazzolla:
03. Histoire du Tango: Café 1930
Pietro Roffi:
04. Nocturne: A Kind of Lullaby of Times We Have Not Yet Lived
Astor Piazzolla:
Concerto for Bandoneon and Chamber Orchestra “Aconcagua”
05. I. Allegro marcato
06. II. Moderato
07. III. Presto
08. Suite Lumiere: Soledad
09. María de Buenos Aires: Yo soy María
Franck Angelis:
10. Fantasie on a theme of Piazzolla – Chiquilín de Bachín
Astor Piazzolla:
11. Romance del Diablo
Johann Sebastian Bach:
12. Adagio in D Minor, BWV 974 (after Alessandro Marcello’s Concerto for Oboe and Strings)
Sergey Akhunov:
Two Keys to One Poem by J. Brodsky
13. The Moon
14. The River
Astor Piazzolla:
15. Libertango
Riga-born Ksenija Sidorova is today one of the most eminent global ambassadors of the classical accordion. She has proudly borne the colours of her instrument in appearances in the world’s leading halls and with the foremost orchestras. Here she pays homage to Piazzolla in her own way: ‘Piazzolla the revolutionary, the ground-breaker, a man thinking ahead of his time … Playing this repertoire gave me a sense of artistic freedom and ignited my belief in advocacy of my instrument. For this album, I wanted to celebrate Piazzolla the innovator by pairing some his masterworks with pieces written by other composers for classical accordion, the majority of which I have premiered in recent years. Being of Russian heritage, I couldn’t help noticing the similarity between the nostalgia of the tango and that of Russian composer Sergey Voitenko’s “Revelation”. French accordionist-composer Franck Angelis’s Fantasia is based on Piazzolla’s Waltz-tango, and the programme is completed by the Nocturne of Italian accordionist-composer Pietro Roffi and a piece by Sergey Akhunov’.