The Accordion

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