Works for a Classical Accordion

On this CD:

1. Winter Darkness
Composed by Ejnar Kanding
Performed by Soren Kaas Calesson, Geir Draugsvoll, Lise-Lotte Nielsen

2. Confetti No.2 Quasi Walzer
Composed by Leif Kayser
Performed by Soren Kaas Calesson, Geir Draugsvoll, Lise-Lotte Nielsen

3. Confetti No.5 Andante
Composed by Leif Kayser
Performed by Soren Kaas Calesson, Geir Draugsvoll, Lise-Lotte Nielsen

4. Confetti No. 06 Allegretto
Composed by Leif Kayser
Performed by Soren Kaas Calesson, Geir Draugsvoll, Lise-Lotte Nielsen

5. Confetti No.11 Andantino
Composed by Leif Kayser
Performed by Soren Kaas Calesson, Geir Draugsvoll, Lise-Lotte Nielsen

6. Dirge Other Echoes Inhabit the Garden
Composed by Ivar Frounberg
Performed by Soren Kaas Calesson, Geir Draugsvoll, Lise-Lotte Nielsen

7. Troglodyt
Composed by Mogens Winkel Holm
Performed by Soren Kaas Calesson, Geir Draugsvoll, Lise-Lotte Nielsen

8. Cadenza
Composed by Klaus Ib Jorgensen
Performed by Soren Kaas Calesson, Geir Draugsvoll, Lise-Lotte Nielsen

9. I've Never Seen a Butterfly Here. . . The Garden
Composed by Andy Pape
Performed by Soren Kaas Calesson, Geir Draugsvoll, Lise-Lotte Nielsen

10. I've Never Seen a Butterfly Here. . . Yes, That's Just the Way Things Are
Composed by Andy Pape
Performed by Soren Kaas Calesson, Geir Draugsvoll, Lise-Lotte Nielsen

11. I've Never Seen a Butterfly Here. . . The Butterfly
Composed by Andy Pape
Performed by Soren Kaas Calesson, Geir Draugsvoll, Lise-Lotte Nielsen

12. I've Never Seen a Butterfly Here. . . The Mouse
Composed by Andy Pape
Performed by Soren Kaas Calesson, Geir Draugsvoll, Lise-Lotte Nielsen

Tracks:

Winter Darkness
CONFETTI: No. 2 quasi walzer
CONFETTI: No. 5 andante
CONFETTI: No. 6 allegretto
CONFETTI: No. 11 andantino
A Dirge: Other Echoes Inhabit The Garden
troglodyt
cadenza
...I've Never Seen A Butterfly Here...: The Garden
...I've Never Seen A Butterfly Here...: Yes, That's Just The Way Things Are
...I've Never Seen A Butterfly Here...: The Butterfly
...I've Never Seen A Butterfly Here...: The Mouse

Vaudeville Accordion Classics: The Complete Works of Guido Deiro

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Accordion as you have never heard it!
Excellent Album

Vaudeville Accordion Classics: The Complete Works of Guido Deiro

Manufacturer: Bridge
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000UX502
Release Date: 2003-11-25

Tracks:

Temperamental Rag
Pink Slippers Valse
Preparedness March
Il Pentimento Waltz
Royal Flying Corps March
Kismet Fox Trot
Orazione e Marcia Militare
Western Stars March
Moonlight Waltz
Hand Grenade Throwers March
Deiro Rag
Muskateers March
Deirina Mazurka
I Don't Care Polka
Lido Tango
Queen of the Air march
Valse Caprice No. 1
Neapolitan Polka
My Florence Waltz
Egypto Fantasia
Zampa Rag
Lola Fox Trot
Breitenbush March
Tango Tosino
Guido's Royal March
Light & Shadow Waltz
Variety Polka
Valse Pirouette
Marines March
Dolores Waltz
Los Bomberos March
Accordionette Waltz
Young Accordionist March
Little Accordion Player Waltz
Torpedo March
Beautiful Girl Waltz
The Peasant Quadrille
Radio Waltz
Dimples Polka
The Accordion Girl Waltz
Sharpshooters March
Veno (Duet) Fox Trot
Jewel Waltz (Duet)
King Boy (Duet) Fox Trot
Minneapolis March (Duet)
California Mazurka (Duet)
Sharpshooters March (Reprise)

Album Description

Guido Deiro, the Italian-American accordion virtuoso-- frequently called "The Great Deiro"-- was of paramount importance in the popularization of the accordion in the early 20th century. The first accordionist to perform on the Vaudeville stage (1910), he was also the first accordionist to make sound recordings (Edison Wax Cylinders, 1911). For many years Deiro was a headline attraction at the great vaudeville houses throughout America and abroad, and made more than 100 recordings for the Columbia record company. On Bridge's 2-CD set, Henry Doktorski's sparkling performances of Deiro's music quickly confirm the reason for Deiro's immense popularity. In 1913, Deiro met the young vaudeville performer, and later-to-be Hollywood starlette, Mae West, while both were performing on a vaudeville show in Detroit. The couple quickly fell in love and secretly married. Henry Doktorski's liner notes detail Deiro and West's torrid love affair, and early photograph's of Deiro, provided by Deiro's son, Count Guido Deiro Jr., add to the significance of this release. Deiro's delightful compositions are a window onto an era long past, much like the re-discovery of Scott Joplin's music, twenty-five years ago.

Customer Reviews:

Accordion as you have never heard it!.......2007-04-03

Guido Deiro was the first virtuoso of this much maligned and very difficult to play instrument. An accomplished composer and recording star, Deiro was a hughely popular in Vaudeville. The liner notes reveal his marriage to Mae West and I enjoyed the vintage photos. Henry Doktorski plays Deiro's compositions with great technique and every piece is a revelation of what the accordion is really capable of when played by a master musician.

Excellent Album.......2005-01-04

This two CD set is certainly worth the money. Henry Doktorski's performance is indeed breathtaking. It is as if someone were transported back to the days when Guido Deiro himself was performing these songs. Guido Deiro was a recording pioneer who he became the first star piano-accordionist, the first piano-accordionist to perform on the vaudeville stage, and to make sound recordings(I've got at least two of Mr. Deiro's old Columbia 78 RPM records at home). In fact, Guido became the first person to coin the phrase "Piano-accordion." You'll find plenty of good stuff about Guido in Mr. Doktorski's liner notes on the two-CD set as well as on the GuidoDeiro.com website. Mr. Doktorski's sparkling performance certainly does Mr. Deiro's songs justice.

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Heard it on NPR - It pushes the envelope!

Free-Reed ODYSSEY/Classical Accordion

Manufacturer: Daniel Barski
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000063201
Release Date: 2001-09-01

Tracks:

Tracks 1-6: Erik Satie, "Six Gnossiennes"
Tracks 7-9: Bela Bartok, "Three Hungarian Folksongs"
Track 10: Peter Tchaikovsky, "Dance of The Swans"
Track 11: C.W. von Gluck, "Melody from Orpheus"
Track 12: John Dowland, "Flow My Tears"
Track 13: Peter Warlock, "Basse-Danse"
Track 14: G.B. Draghi, "A ground"
Track 15: J.S. Bach, "Aria"
Track 16: Vivaldi, "Giga"
Tracks 17-19: Vivaldi, "Concerto in D-Major/RV-121"
Track 20: Vivaldi, "Cello Sonata in A-minor/f.14 No.7"
Tracks 21-23 Vivaldi, "Concerto in A-minor/RV-356"

Album Description

"Free-Reed ODYSSEY" consists of classical works played on the accordion. Most selections have never been recorded solely with this instrument. The selections include solos and ensemble renditions, all performed by Daniel Barski with a single acoustic accordion, employing multi-track technique. With the exception of one piece, all selections were transcribed for classical accordion by Daniel Barski.

Customer Reviews:

Heard it on NPR - It pushes the envelope!.......2007-06-19

I heard an interview with the musician and snippets of this CD on NPR 'All Things Considered'. It's innovative and fun and shows supurb musicianship. A master of the accordian pushes the envelope!

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Eisler at the piano is fascinating yet not his primary focus

Hanns Eisler: Works For Piano

Manufacturer: Berlin Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000035VD
Release Date: 1997-04-22

Customer Reviews:

Eisler at the piano is fascinating yet not his primary focus.......1999-04-09

Eisler's piano music must be takened within the context that he wrote best only with a program or with a text. But prior to his political engagements in Germany, where the Nazis put a price on his head, the "First Sonata" out does the piano music of its time. The Berg "Sonata" has erroneously forshadowed Eisler's and naturally Schoenberg who was more vigorous and abstract. It seemed no one had a monopoly however on the darkness all this piano repertoire reflected the earlier part of this century. Eisler's "First Sonata" is fast-paced, very exciting for the ears with a continuous momentum,trills and leaping registers almost toccata-like. It's also very compact, an important Eisler trait and again to my mind beats to hell the Berg. When we jump to the "Third Sonata" from 1943 we have an Eisler now living in exile in the Pacific Palisades near Los Angeles. And it is curious that all the sunshine there did nothing to effect the darkness and the ugliness that is part of the"Third".Olbertz plays with great discipline not lingering anywhere yet jettisoning his hands in the right registers. When Eisler returned to now the DDR, East Germany he was ignored by the apprarachik authorities in spite of the fact that he wrote their National Anthem. The "Variations" here was Eisler's attempt at a reconciliation of the state of the musical world. He always maintained that the future of music had to contain an element of accessibility,of direct communication, yet not simple-minded nor effects for the mere sake of effects, nor intellectualizing for no real musical end, all sins of current postmodernity. The result for Eisler is really too academic for now he is away from the dangers of the front lines of struggle,living in relative quiet and abandonment,all this must have effected his creativity. All of Eisler's piano music is traditionally bound with never more than two voices at work with a high sense of vigour and drama.

Contemporary Works for String Quartet and Accordion

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Contemporary Works for String Quartet and Accordion

Manufacturer: Intim Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000777IPG
Release Date: 2005-01-25

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Crow Country

Manufacturer: Pogus
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000507XB
Release Date: 2000-10-24

Tracks:

Unfinished Business
Under Rookwood - Richard Lynn
That Time (SImulplay II) - Ross Bolleter/Ryszard Ratajczak
Labyrinth Tango
Pno Dreaming

Album Description

Rookwood for double bass; Labyrinth Tango for accordion; and Piano Dreaming for ruined pianola. That Time (Simulplay II) is for a duo of prepared piano and double bass. Of course, with Ross, this thumbnail description tells not much of the story. So we'll let Ross say a few words. Step on down. "During the drought that never ended at Nallan Sheep Station I confess to recording on the Ruined Piano at night. I'd hide in the freezing shed crouched under the piano waiting for Dave to turn off the TV, switch off the generator and go to bed. Straight after, I would drag up an oil drum, feel the broken teeth of the Pianola under my fingers, then play con bravura passione for the applause of millions of cicadas through the shivery shuddery graveyard shift." Hmmmm.

Klaus Ib Jorgensen - Works for Accordion (Dacapo)

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Klaus Ib Jorgensen - Works for Accordion (Dacapo)

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000MP84LK

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Parodos ("--and the lotos rose, quietly, quietly--") : 1996 (13:50) -- Cadenza : 1995 (11:03) -- Distortion, commentary : 1992 (7:12) -- Kommos : 1995 (9:14) -- Temperature : 1993 (19:36).