Richard Galliano - Mozart '2016

Tracks list

Tracklist:

[03:28] 01. Mozart: Sonate Pour Piano No. 11, K. 331 (Marche Turque)
 Arrangement Pour Accordéon Et Cordes Richard Galliano
[03:56] 02. II. Adagio
[05:27] 03. I. Allegro
[05:04] 04. II. Romance (Andante)
[01:58] 05. III. Menuet Et Trio (Allegretto)
[02:58] 06. IV. Rondo (Allegro)
[04:45] 07. Laudate Dominum
[11:23] 08. I. Allegro
[07:33] 09. II. Adagio
[08:36] 10. III. Rondo
[03:48] 11. Adagio Pour Harmonica De Verre En Do Majeur, K. 617a
 Arrangement Pour Accordéon Et Cordes Richard Galliano

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ABOUT THE ALBUM
Album-Release: 2016
HRA-Release: 19.05.2016
Label: Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Аccordion
Album including: Album Cover, Booklet (PDF)

Info for Mozart
I remember this like it was yesterday: an evening with Dave Brubeck at the
Olympia in 2001. Obviously he played Blue Rondo à la Turk.

Richard Galliano introduced me to violinist Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabédian, a
friend of Olivier Mantei who at that time was taking care of the music
programming at the Bouffes du Nord Theatre. The idea was born to gather six
musicians – five strings plus piano – and take Gallianos
Franco-Italian inspiration to put new life into Astor Piazzollas most beautiful
pieces; fifteen years ago, those pieces were a long way from finding a home in
most classical programmes....

Galliano and Piazzolla had met, and saying they appreciated each other is a real
euphemism: love at first sight would be a better phrase! Piazzolla was no doubt
the major encounter in Gallianos career, but also part of his life, because he
gave him some precious advice; and he still talks about it in interviews. So
Jean-Marc and Sébastien Surel took their violins, plus Jean-Marc Apap
(viola), Henri Demarquette (cello), Stéphane Logerot (double bass) and
Hervé Sellin (piano), and they went off to take a breather down in the
Aveyron region, together with the accordion. And so began an adventure whose
size.... nobody at the time could see how important or how long it would be:
almost 500 concerts around the world, and a DVD five or six years later that
made this tango nuevo immortal, transfigured in the loving hands of Richard
Galliano and his accordion, with silky, elegant arrangements so light that
nobody had heard in a tango before.

The rest followed naturally: in parallel with his career in jazz, Galliano was
finding a new taste for playing with a classical ensemble, a tendency that began
with the Orchestra della Toscana and the Passatori album). Unlike a chamber or
symphony group, however, a sextet allows for all kinds of daring initiatives: it
is wildly clever. Adjustable, flexible and manageable, the format reduced to
five strings allows you to do the groundwork quicker when you want to explore.
The Bach project became the first album for Deutsche Grammophon, and it was an
unexpected success. It was the accordion-performance of works by a monument in
classics, and not only did it not cause a scandal, it seemed perfectly obvious.

And when Vivaldis Four Seasons were raised, they quite naturally became the
logical counterpart of the Piazzolla pieces that Richard and his sextet had
played so often onstage.

Mozart, on the other hand, is quite another challenge, filled with other
difficulties, and it requires extreme sensitivity. Here, other musicians have
taken up the challenge, but the sextet keeps the same instrumentation: two
violins, viola, cello and bass. This time, the first violin is Bertrand Cervera,
a soloist at the Orchestre National de France, with support from Stéphane
Hénoch (violin), Jean-Paul Minali-Bella (viola), Raphaël Perraud (cello)
and bassist Sylvain Le Provost.

Richard Galliano, Akkordeon, Bandoneon
Bertrand Cervera, Violine
Stephane Henoch, Violine
Jean-Paul Minali-Bella, Viola
Raphael Perraud, Cello
Sylvain Le Provost, Kontrabass



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