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Ksenija Sidorova - Classical Accordion: J.S.Bach; D. Scarlatti; Mozart; Berio; Schnittke; Nordheim; Takahashi; Piazzolla (2011)

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Date: 28 Feb 2025 18:31:11

Ksenija Sidorova - Classical Accordion: J.S.Bach; D. Scarlatti; Mozart; Berio; Schnittke; Nordheim; Takahashi; Piazzolla (2011)

The winner of numerous international competitions, the brilliant young accordion player Ksenija Sidorova here presents her debut recording; a recital for solo classical accordion. A particularly accomplished artist, Ksenija has collaborated with many leading musicians (including the Belcea Quartet, and Valergy Gergiev with the CBSO), and won numerous awards and accolades. Still an underexploited resource in western classical music, the accordion has had a fast-increasing amount of music written for it since the mid-20th Century. Here, Ksenija Sidrova brings a varied recital featuring some of the best contemporary compositions for the classical accordion, alongside transcriptions of well-known works. No composer has been transcribed more often than Bach; but the accordion - heard here in Bachs Overture in the French Style - brings an advantage that few other instruments can offer; its notes do not die away as soon as they are sounded. This allows an array of colouristic possibilities, denied to other musicians. Amongst the contemporary works here, Arne Nordheims Flashing, written in 1985 for solo accordion, has become a classic of the accordion repertoire. Nordheims music has a real sense of physicality, of movement and change on a large scale. In contrast, Luciani Berios Sequenza XIII opens with a compressed melody which is gradually developed amid splashes of complex harmony and virtuoso filigree. Yuji Takahashus Like a Water Buffalo is preceded on this disc by the poem that inspired it. Well-known in Takahashis native Japan, it is a moving, heartfelt piece, strongly transmitting the sounds of freedom.

Latvian accordionist Ksenija Sidorova offers a disclaimer: "It will probably be a while before the phrase 'I play the classical accordion' doesn't sound unusual or funny!" But she has taken a big step toward legitimizing the instrument with this release from Britain's Champs Hill label. It avoids the twin poles that have characterized much of the classical accordion music that has appeared thus far: music influenced by the jazz avant-garde on one hand, and reworked folk styles on the other. Sidorova offers two types of music: contemporary compositions for accordion and arrangements of Baroque and Classical keyboard works. The listener will be struck by how well the whole program holds together and how well executed Sidorova's arrangements are; hearing transcriptions of Bach, Mozart, and Domenico Scarlatti after works by Luciano Berio and Norwegian composer Arne Nordheim, you feel as though you're hearing the music in a new way. This isn't due just to the fact of the accordion's novelty: Sidorova shapes the music from Bach's Overture in the French style, BWV 831, into registral layers that reflect the sort of construction to which the modern composers naturally turn. The accordion can sustain tones and inflect their textures while doing so, and Nordheim's opening work Flashing and Berio's Sequenza XIII, both influenced by electronic music, make primary use of this ability. After that, you can't help but hear Bach and Mozart in those terms. With the exception of Alfred Schnittke's Revis Fairy Tale, an arrangement of music from the ballet Esquisses (via several intermediate steps), Sidorova sticks with a combination of modern music originally for accordion and standard-repertoire music arranged for it. Sample the bonus track, a movement from Astor Piazzolla's swan song Five Tango Sensations for bandoneón and string quartet, to experience Sidorova's very expressive playing. A real treat for any fan of the accordion or for anyone who has considered the interesting question of how an instrument becomes established in classical repertoire; as Sidorova points out, a century ago nobody considered the guitar a classical instrument either, despite its glorious past.

Review by James Manheim, Allmusic.com

Ksenija Sidorova at Allmusic
Ksenija Sidorova Website

Performers:

Ksenija Sidorova - accordion

Sacconi Quartet:
Ben Hancox - violin
Hannah Dawson - violin
Robin Ashwell - viola
Cara Berridge - cello

Tracklist:

Arne NORDHEIM (1931–2010)
01. Flashing (1985) (07:20)

Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750)
02. Overture in the French Style: Adagio maestoso - Allegro - Adagio (07:04)

Luciano BERIO (1925-2003)
03. Sequenza XIII 'Chanson' (1995) (09:14)

Domenico SCARLATTI (1685-1757)
04. Sonata in D minor: Moderato e cantabile - Minuetto (05:09)
05. Sonata in D major: Allegro (03:11)

Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART (1756-1791)
06. 12 Variations 'Ah, vous dirais-je, maman' (08:44)

Alfred SCHNITTKE (1934-1998)
Revis Fairy Tale:
07. 1. Chichikov's Childhood (02:09)
08. 2. Officials (02:21)
09. 3. Waltz (03:15)
10. 4. Polka (02:32)

Yuji TAKAHASHI (b.1938)
11. Like a Water Buffalo (poem: Wendy Poussard) (01:01)
12. Like a Water Buffalo (09:30)

Ástor PIAZZOLLA (1921–1992)
13. Five Tango Sensations: Asleep (06:50)

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