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01-Jul-2011
Accordionists Play Tchaikovsky With Legendary Conductor - Russiaby Alexander Selivanov |
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| Photo above: Yulia Amerikova, Sergey Osokin, Maria Vlassova, Maestro Rozhdestvensky and L’ubov Rubtsova The concert series “Gennady Rozhdestvensky conducts music by Tchaikovsky” is an anniversary series of the concerts, dedicated to the 80 years anniversary celebration of one of the last legendary Soviet Russian conductors. For the concert on 19th June at the “Tchaikovsky” Philharmonic Concert Hall in Moscow, the concert program included Tchaikovsky’s Suite No. 2, one of the first examples of using accordion in the history of symphony music, and especially unique, that it was composed by the most famous Russian composer Piotr Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky used four simple harmonicas to play parts based on 2 chords – E dur and H dur (Mi major and Si major) which have two different sounds on every button while open and close bellows. Probably, the only instrument of present times which is available to play the same way is simple model of concertina. It was a great luck that Gennady Rozhdestvensky invited to help him and play the harmonica parts were four very well known Russian piano accordionists, Yulia Amerikova, Maria Vlassova, L’ubov Rubtsova and Sergey Osokin. All the concert and especially Suite No. 2 was a fantastic success. After the concert, the accordionists had pleasure to speak with Rozhdestvensky, who thanked them for their participation. Maestro Rozhdestvensky confirmed the neccessity of using accordion sound colors in the symphony orchestra for this work, according to original Tchaikovsky idea when he said: “Using the accordions, we’ve got a really different color of orchestral sound and it was absolutely necessary to invite you to play”. |
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