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Guy
Klucevsek
Free Range Accordion
ST-209
Downbeat:
"A rebel with an accordion... Klucevsek combines poker-faced wit and imagination
with command of his instrument, forcing you to re-think the accordion's
limitations."
ClassicsToday.com:
"This disc of 12 pieces by eight composers could well become a landmark..."
Guy Klucevsek's
latest recording ranges from the highly emotional to the bizarrely
witty. The CD presents the premiere recording of
the profoundly intense Hymn from the Pulitzer winner
Aaron Jay Kernis. The compoer considers the work, based on his haunting
memories of visits to concentration camps, as one of "a series
of works which have taken a central position in my oeuvre."
In addition
to the Aaron Jay Kernis piece, other deeply personal works are
Somei Satoh's spiritually reflective Recitative (written
after his stepfather's death) and Jerome Kitzke's boisterous Breath
and Bone (a elegy for a good friend).
Guy Klucevsek's
Bacharach arrangements move from the delightfully ridiculous to
the sublimely ethereal in just a few short minutes.
The performer
writes that Lars Hollmer's piece has "one of the most
beautiful melodies I have ever heard," while Klucevsek's own
Three of a Kind offer what Starkland feels are possibly
the most austerely gorgeous works yet penned by the accordionist.
Add in Stephen
Montague's virtuosic work and Loiv V Vierk's energetic piece (also
both premiere recordings) and the result is a powerful, highly
varied recording.
Starkland's
previous GuyKlucevsek CD won a "Recording of Special
Merit" from Stereo Review.
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Stephen Montague
Aeolian Furies
Jerome Kitzke
Breath and Bone
Somei Satoh
Recitative
Lois V Vierk
Blue Jets Red Sprites
Guy Klucevsek
Three of a
Kind
Coral Desert
Organum
AOK Chorale
Burt Bacharach
The Blob
Burt Bacharach
One Less Bell to Answer
Aaron Jay
Kernis
Hymn
Lars Hollmer
Boeves Psalm
Introduction: Guy
Klucevsek
Total Time 72:05

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