Ksenija Sidorova – Piazzolla Reflections (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Ksenija Sidorova – Piazzolla Reflections (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:50 minutes | 1,40 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

Riga-born Ksenija Sidorova is today one of the most eminent global ambassadors of the classical accordion. She has proudly borne the colours of her instrument in appearances in the world’s leading halls and with the foremost orchestras. Here she pays homage to Piazzolla in her own way: ‘Piazzolla the revolutionary, the ground-breaker, a man thinking ahead of his time … Playing this repertoire gave me a sense of artistic freedom and ignited my belief in advocacy of my instrument. For this album, I wanted to celebrate Piazzolla the innovator by pairing some his masterworks with pieces written by other composers for classical accordion, the majority of which I have premiered in recent years. Being of Russian heritage, I couldn’t help noticing the similarity between the nostalgia of the tango and that of Russian composer Sergey Voitenko’s “Revelation”. French accordionist-composer Franck Angelis’s Fantasia is based on Piazzolla’s Waltz-tango, and the programme is completed by the Nocturne of Italian accordionist-composer Pietro Roffi and a piece by Sergey Akhunov’.

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Ksenija Sidorova, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Andris Poga – Arturs Maskats Accordion Concerto, Tango, Cantus diatonicus & My River Runs to Thee (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Ksenija Sidorova, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Andris Poga – Arturs Maskats Accordion Concerto, Tango, Cantus diatonicus & My River Runs to Thee (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:47 minutes | 946 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ondine

“Der lettische Komponist Arturs Maskats (geb. 1957) steht seit Jahrzehnten im Zentrum des lettischen Kulturlebens, insbesondere im Bereich Theater und Oper. Neben Opern, Bühnenmusik und Filmmusik umfasst sein Werkkatalog mehrere Orchesterwerke und -konzerte, Lieder und Chorwerke. Dieses neue Album des lettischen Nationalorchesters und seines Dirigenten Andris Poga enthält eines von Maskats’ neuesten Werken im Bereich der Orchestermusik: sein Akkordeonkonzert (2021), das hier von seiner lettischen Kollegin, der Star-Akkordeonistin Ksenija Sidorova, einem der klügsten Namen der heutigen klassischen Musik, gespielt wird. Maskats’ Kompositionen sind tonal, oft romantisch und cineastisch und von einer tiefen Atmosphäre geprägt. Seinen internationalen Ruf verdankt er vor allem seinem Tango (2002), einem preisgekrönten Werk für Sinfonieorchester, das auch zu den meistgespielten Orchesterwerken eines lettischen Komponisten zählt. Im Jahr 2022 wurde das Werk auch von den Wiener Philharmonikern und Andris Nelsons in der Reihe der Sommernachtskonzerte in Schonbrunn aufgeführt. Im Grunde genommen macht Maskats mit dem Tango etwas Ähnliches wie Ravel mit dem Walzer in seiner La Valse.”

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Ksenija Sidorova – Carmen (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Ksenija Sidorova – Carmen (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:28 minutes | 956 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: Q0buz | Digital Booklet | © Deutsche Grammophon
Recorded: Blackbird Music Studio, Berlin ( Band ) 8 / 2015; Zorlu Performing Arts Center, Istanbul (Orchestra) 8 / 2015; Floating Earth Studios, London 11 / 2015

Countless artists, authors and other sharp creative minds – from Manet and Peter Brook to Nabokov and Nietzsche – have drawn deep inspiration from Carmen. Ksenija Sidorova is the latest to reimagine the tragic heroine of Bizet’s opera. The Latvian accordionist, a massive musical talent with the blazing energy of a comet, marks her Deutsche Grammophon debut with an album driven by her identification with Bizet’s famously free-spirited femme fatale. Ksenija’s Carmen gives new life to some of the most popular of all classical melodies, presented here in seductively fresh arrangements. She describes the character of Carmen as, above all, “a projection of the heart’s most intimate desires”. In response, her album, influenced by Latin, Asian, European and North American musical styles, offers an intoxicating mix of tone colours and pulsating rhythms.

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