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Petrouchka arranged for two accordions is not unlike the original, since the composer's push-button winds and biting, nasal strings resemble nothing if not a giant orchestral squeeze box. Little is lost in this "de-orchestration"--for example, percussion passages are dealt with by whacking the accordion's sides. Stravinsky's Tango also lies well on the instrument, but the players miss the music's ironic bite. James Crabb and Geir Draugsvoll recast Pictures at an Exhibition with dazzling ingenuity. Their prim and spotless virtuosity, however, transforms Mussorgsky's raging, elemental lion into an agreeable, domestic kitty cat. Nevertheless, accordion fanciers will be enticed. Move over, Lawrence Welk! --Jed Distler
| ARTIST: | Modest Mussorgsky, Igor Stravinsky, James Crabb & Geir Draugsvoll |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Angel Records |
| TYPE: | 20th/21st Century Ballet, Ballet, Classical, Classical Artists, Classical Music, Keyboard, Suite/Partita for Keyboard, Tango for Keyboard |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Petrushka (1947 Version): Scene 1, Petrushka (1947 Version): Scene 2, Petrushka (1947 Version): Scene 3, Petrushka (1947 Version): Scene 4 - James Crabb/Geir Draugsvol, Tango (Tempo di tango), Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade, Pictures at an Exhibition: Gnomus/Der Gnom, Pictures at an Exhibition: Promendage, Pictures at an Exhibition: The Old Castle, Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade, Pictures at an Exhibition: Tuileries, Pictures at an Exhibition: Bydlo, Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade, Pictures at an Exhibition: Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks, Pictures at an Exhibition: Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle, Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade, Pictures at an Exhibition: Limoges-The Market Place, Pictures at an Exhibition: Catacombae (Sepulchrum romanum-Cum mortuis in lingua mortua), Pictures at an Exhibition: The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba Yaga), Pictures at an Exhibition: The Great Gate of Kiev |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 724356970526 |
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Customer Reviews of Duos dor Classical Accordions
A singular achievement, a unique pleasure These two young Europeans have done an inspired and remarkably attentive job of translating the orchestral music of Stravinsky's Russian folk ballet "Petrushka" for their two great button accordions. The score itself seems at times to have been inspired by the quaint, wheezy dance music often played on the accordion in Old Russia, making it a particularly apt choice for this unusual duo. I have saved for last the most compelling reason to buy this disc: the level of technical skill and the range of expression on display will leave speechless any music lover in your circle who dismisses the accordion as a mistake of creation. Music of such interpretive richness and rigorousness cannot be dismissed. (I may add, if you are the sort of person who likes to dance to the music, these two will not let you down.)
The disc is rounded out by an aggressive, somewhat hurried reading of Stravinsky's usually melancholy "Tango," and a meritorous adaptation of Mussorgsky's "Pictures At An Exhibition," which comes off like a reasonable compromise between the original keyboard work and the orchestrated version which made its fame. The playing throughout is nearly faultless.