With this project, Gianni Ventola Danese continues his work of innovating the musical tradition of the Diatonic Accordion, and after Argentine Tango, Morricone, and Soviet Songs, here he writes and performs an anthology of musical adaptations that bring for the first time the repertoire of classical music into the cultural and musical horizon of the Diatonic Accordion.
In fact, if you try to Google “Diatonic Accordion” or “Organetto” together with “Musica Classica” you will not find any results, because this is the album that officially inaugurates the literature of classical music for Diatonic Accordion, giving birth to a breakthrough project that highlights a new musical and interpretative frontier for this instrument of the folk tradition demonstrating, among other things, that it would be possible and necessary to bring it into the curricula of classic conservatories, something that unfortunately is still a pipe dream at the moment.
For this reason, too, this album is accompanied by the soon-to-be-released arrangements by Gianni Ventola Danese, which will enable those who wish to do so to undertake a classical-style study or teaching with the Diatonic Accordion.
The Album explores the cultural sphere of classical music along two perspectives: that of history and that of performing ensembles. In fact, the pieces performed compose a small chronicle of classical music, its stylistic features and evolution, from the 17th century to the 20th century. Moreover, as many as five ensembles are featured in this project, in addition to the solo: duo, trio, quartet, sextet and octet.
For the realization of this project, the author elaborated and perfected some unprecedented accordion techniques specific to the performance of classical music on the Diatonic Accordion, contributing once again to expanding the tools available to the musical practice of this instrument.
An album that from all points of view, as mentioned, represents a world premiere, the first time of Bach on the Diatonic Accordion and his famous Goldberg Variations, as well as Pachelbel, Rameau, Mozart, Pergolesi, Haendel, Puccini, Bruckner, Satie, and Shostakovich, composers whose compositions had never before been tackled and performed philologically on the Diatonic Accordion.
A long work of study and musical analysis, the fruit of which is an hour and a quarter of music, 23 tracks, for a listening experience that will delight all lovers of this instrument and the immortal repertoire that is reinterpreted here.
Available in Digital Album and limited edition Compact Disc.
