A truly wonderful recording of Richard Galliano’s playing on this live Solo recording. From March of 2009, in Paris.
I think I am addicted to the opening track, Chat Pitre. My favorite track is the brilliant and masterfully played rendition of Galliano’s composition New York Tango. Through his recordings and performaces, the song has taken many different iterations. From its jazz group tango version, to inclusion as the 3rd Movement of his Opal Concerto with string ensemble, and now a stunning solo recording. In which the themes are stretched and toyed with. I get the feeling of a solo jazz pianist in concert.
I feel like of Michel Autre Bistrot des Accordéon when he says:
In listening to this recording, I immediately had the feeling of a very personal work.
This is a very personal work. It reaches right out of the speakers and grabs you with an immediacy and a truthfulness which tempers Galliano’s otherworldly technical powers. So much music here.
There is also a great write up from Italian blog Rassegna Stampa Ird Spa:
A festive maze of sounds, that touches the form : jazz, tango French song…waills of blues emerge from the folds of his accordion. Travelling with his compositions, the ones that brought him to perform on stage throughout the world, without forgetting those of Astor Piazzolla, who he has always loved and celebrated in his own way.
Moving, never taking for granted the solutions, always at the service of the melody and the rhythm – principle elements of dance – very attentive to the depth and the form; because, like few artists, Galliano joins technical skill and syntactical knowledge of the music from the 1900s with an uncommon emotionality.
If you love solo accordion music you must get this recording.
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