Piazzolla Reflections

by Ksenija Sidorova

Overview

Accordionist Ksenija Sidorova has attracted wide attention with an aggressive attempt to expand the scope of the accordion in classical music, commissioning new works and arrangements of established repertory. Here, Sidorova tries something different: she takes up repertory by a composer associated with the accordion's close relative, the bandoneon, and mixes it with newly composed works of the same general mood as the tangos by Astor Piazzolla that make up the bulk of the program. The mix is persuasive, even as it ranges from Bach to contemporary pop composer Sergey Voitenko and other modern figures that will likely be unfamiliar to western audiences; Sidorova manages to combine her orientation toward contemporary music with Piazzolla. It should be noted that Sidorova plays an accordion, which has somewhat less expressive range than Piazzolla's bandoneon, and Piazzolla's Concerto for bandoneon and chamber orchestra, even with the high-powered collaboration of the NDR Elbphilharmonie under conductor Thomas Hengelbrock, comes off a bit mechanically. She has a fine feeling for Piazzolla in the shorter pieces, though, and the album has an X factor that comes from its being unlike anything else out there and from the performer's sense of personal connection to all of the music. The sound, although recorded in three different venues, is consistently good. ~ James Manheim

Product Details

Release Date:	02/12/2021
Label:	Alpha
UPC:	3760014196645
Rank:	123657

Tracks

1. Chau Paris
2. Revelation
3. Histoire du Tango~Caf¿¿ 1930
4. Nocturne: A Kind of Lullaby of Lullaby of the Times We Have Not Yet Lived
5. Concerto for Bandoneon, String Orchestra and Percussion 'Aconcagua'~I. Allegro marcato
6. Concerto for Bandoneon, String Orchestra and Percussion 'Aconcagua'~II. Moderato
7. Concerto for Bandoneon, String Orchestra and Percussion 'Aconcagua'~III. Presto
8. Suite Lumiere: Soledad
9. Mar¿¿a de Buenos Aires: Yo soy Mar¿¿a
10. Fantasie on a theme of Piazzolla - Chiquil¿¿n de Bach¿¿n
11. Romance del Diablo
12. Concerto for oboe and strings~Adagio in D minor, BWV 974
13. Two Keys to One J. Brodsky's Poem~The Moon
14. Two Keys to One J. Brodsky's Poem~The River
15. Libertango

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Ksenija Sidorova   Primary Artist,Accordion
Thomas Hengelbrock   Conductor
Didier Martin   Director
Reentko Dirks   Guitar
Goldmund Quartet   String Quartet
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester   Orchestra
Roberto Koch   Double Bass
Claudio Constantini   Piano
Alexander Sitkovetsky   Violin
BBC National Orchestra of Wales   Orchestra
Clark Rundell   Conductor

Technical Credits

Tugce Tez   Executive Producer
Jonathan Allen   Mixing,Editing,Mastering,Recording Producer
Dario Acosta   Cover Photo,Photography
Dominik Blech   Engineer
Huw Thomas   Assistant Engineer
Dave Rowell   Editing
Sergei Voitenko   Composer
Pietro Roffi   Composer
Charlie-Rose Blockley   Executive Producer
Susanne Lowien   Liner Note Translation
Alexander van Ingen   Producer,Executive Producer
Ksenija Sidorova   Creative Director
Franck Angelis   Composer
Sergey Akhunov   Composer
Amelie Boccon-Gibod   Editorial Coordinator
Louise Burel   Producer
Aline Lugand-Gris Souris   Artwork
John Lenehan   Arranger
Johann Sebastian Bach   Composer
Astor Piazzolla   Composer
Dennis Collins   Liner Note Translation
Claudio Constantini   Arranger
Valerie Lagarde   Design
Michel Chasteau   Text Translation
Alessandro Marcello   Original Material
Lesley Hatfield   Leader
Dirk Luedemann   Digital Editing,Recording Producer
Karlina Vitolina   Cover Photo,Photography
Sonja Epping   Executive Producer
Warwick Thompson   Liner Notes
Andrew Mellor   Engineer