The Accordion
from Relevant Tones Hosted by Access Contemporary Music
Once relegated solely to the status of folk instrument, the accordion is being used more and more by composers around the world in a stunning variety of different musical contexts. We’ll feature music for this storied instrument and talk to a few of the composers about how it inspired them. Hosted by Seth Boustead Produced by Sarah Zwinklis Music A Way Through by Jane O’Leary Dermot Dunne, accordion; Madeleine Staunton, alto flute; Paul Roe, bass clarinet Slow Motion by Toshio Hosokawa Teodoro Anzellotti, accordion Gate Keepers by Tomi Raisanen Wu Wei, sheng; Pascal Contet, accordion Glimmer by Richard Warp Stas Venglevski, accordion Metal Work by Magnus Lindberg Sofia Ahjoniemi, accordion; Julien Mégroz, percussion Recall by Per Norgard Bjarke Mogensen, accordion; Danish National Chamber Orchestra; Rolf Gupta, conductor
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