Chapeau Classique: Die vier Akkordeonisten: Akkordeon-Gipfel
Quetschkommode or Schifferklavier was yesterday! Today, the accordion is in demand in the concert hall – and the German Music Council has named it the "Instrument of the Year 2026."
We also celebrate this self-sounding interruption aerophone at our Accordion Summit with four outstanding artists who have been awarded the GWK Promotion Prize among others in recent years and are successfully working as soloists, chamber musicians, and teachers beyond Germany.
Pavel Efremov from the Republic of Moldova, Maciej Fraçkiewicz from Poland, the Carinthian Slovenian Marko Kassl, and Nikola Komatina from Serbia have put together a colorful international program with their favorite pieces, ranging from "B" like Bach to well-known and "Z" like Zimka and quite new. Its sound spectrum ranges from the sometimes powerful, sometimes delicate, harmonically rich or melodically slender "organ" sound of the quartet, known to many, to very foreign yet breathtaking accordion sounds, such as sheer, polyphonic tones or the mere breathing and whispering, rustling, and moaning of the bellows.
The Four will play quartets and solo pieces, arrangements of cheerful well-known classics, and original works by contemporary composers from their home countries. These new works – since the accordion is still so young in "classical" music, exciting repertoire is emerging almost worldwide in recent years – are intuitively accessible, captivating curiosity, heart, and mind: meditation meets ecstasy, existential lament meets intoxication, autumn moods with the stirring of leaves and storm. Impetuous runs, calm sequences, abstract soundscapes, and rough clusters take turns.
The accordion is experienced in its mobility and adaptability, in its multilingualism and versatility, in its immense sound richness and beauty.
Musicians
The four accordionists
Pavel Efremov | Maciej Fraçkiewicz | Marko Kassl | Nikola Komatina
Program: Accordion Summit
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750): Organ Concerto in A minor, BWV 593, for 4 accordions
Joseph Haydn (1732–1809): Divertimento in G major, Hob. XVI:8
Lojze Lebič (*1934): Rej
Jasna Veljanovic (*1980): Elegija
Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868): Cavatina from Figaro
Maciej Zimka (*1989): The Fall #4 (2023) for four accordions
Franz Liszt (1811–1886): Étude No. 5 “La Chasse” from the Grandes Études de Paganini
Ghenadie Ciobanu (*1957): Expanding Space II
Krzysztof Penderecki (1933–2020): Sinfonietta
Astor Piazzolla (1921–1992): Ballet Tango for four accordions
Waiting list at 0251-5913041 or gwk@lwl.org. The same program will be performed at the concert in Haltern am See on January 28.
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