Goran Kovacevic, born in 1971 in
Switzerland, has been studying the accordion with professor Hugo
Noth at the state academy for music in Trossingen from 1991-1996
where he completed his postgraduate studies too. Goran has won
several awards at International accordion competitions, and performs
solo as well as with symphony and chamber orchestras.
Goran has chosen a very interesting
and unusual structure of the program for this recording: it starts
with a contemporary piece, followed by baroque and classical pieces
(Frescobaldi, Haydn, Mozart), then to round it off another modern
piece.
The first Piece "Melodia" was written
by modern Japanese composer Toshio Hosokawa, who writes: "It
was my aim to make accessible a new dimension of sounds, when
I composed "Melodia" for the accordion in 1979. Strictly avoiding
the normal accordion tone, I had in mind to create a world in
which the pure sounds of the upper registers confront the cruel
ones of the lower ones and are connected with each other in endangered
harmony". This effect the composer wanted to create was achieved
through Goran's great tonal control, inner hearing and imagination.
My first impression about the baroque
and classical pieces is that the performer possesses unquestionable
tonal culture and profound understanding for the style and its
inner dynamics while performing technically sound. In general,
this recording is, no doubt, proof of Goran's performing culture
in all the aspects of the word.
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