Music for Accordion

Two masters of the Italian Renaissance, played on…the accordion!

The accordion is slowly emancipating, shedding its "light entertainment" image and claiming its right as a serious and valuable musical instrument. Its possibilities are enormous, its sounds and sonorities as varied as a church organ.

This new recording presents keyboard works by Frescobaldi and Gesualdo, works which were intended for either harpsichord or organ, and therefore may be played on any keyboard instrument. The realisation on accordion is fascinating in its fusion of both the harpsichord (its tactile precision) and the organ (its sustained polyphony).

Italian Francesco Gesualdi is one of the world's foremost accordionists. He commissioned works for his instrument with many contemporarycomposers, and is well connected with composers such as Mauricio Kagel, Sofia Gubaidulina and Wolfgang Rihm.

Excellent and extensive liner notes are included in the booklet.