Tag: Alfred Schnittke

  • PROGRAM NOTES: KSENIJA SIDOROVA

    PROGRAM NOTES: KSENIJA SIDOROVA

    The Concert Accordion   Early Beginnings The accordion has for centuries been associated with music of a light or popular nature. Its portability, full harmonic texture and penetrating, reedy timbre have made it the ideal mini-orchestra for country dances and the perfect one-man house band for city cafés and music halls. The very sound of…