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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.

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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