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http://www.accordions.com/news.aspx?d=05-Feb-2010&lang=fr&s=1785
05-Feb-2010
by Harley Jones
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 On January 30th, the Norwegian accordionist Håvard Svendsrud (36) performed in his third accordion concert in the Oslo Concert Hall, all the concerts being within the last 12 months. The record company “Norilds Musikk” was organizing this concert and they had also invited two other accordionists from Norway - Ida Løvli Hidle (23) and Live Berger Brekke (24) - picture above. Løvli Hidle and Berger Brekke are both accordion students known for winning the Norwegian Championship for accordionists, and also for receiving the 3rd price in the 2009 International Accordion Festival of Castelfidardo, Italy. One of the best piano players in Norway, Jon Inge Sigerland (46), also participated in this concert (picture left). In the first part of the concert the musicians each player performed solo works. Svendsrud opened with “Mosaico Epañol” by Felice Fugazza, followed by “Waltz Rosette” composed by the Norwegian accordionist Toralf Tollefsen and “Scherzo in Eb” composed by Pietro Frosini. Svendsrud left the podium for Live Berger Brekke and her interpretation of movements 4-6 of the Chamber Suite by Zolotariov. Ida Løvli Hidle then played “Disco Toccata” by the Finnish composer Petri Makkonen. The pianist Jon Inge Sigerland played “Hungarian Rhapsody number 12” by Franz Liszt. Live Berger Brekke is a student at Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, and Ida Løvli Hidle is a student at the Music Conservatory in Trondheim. Both are well known in Norway for their duets. The audience was thrilled with their wonderful playing in “Rondo-Capriccioso” composed by Mendelssohn, Astor Piazolla's famous tango “Adiós Nonino”, and “Scherzo” by John Gart. The last piece performed was “Pohadky” a concert suite for accordion and piano written by the Czech composer Vaclav Troyan. The seven parts in Pohadky - “Fairytales”- has titles as “Let us dance into the Fairytales”, “The sleepy Princess”, and “The sailor and the enchanted accordion”. This rarely performed piece was received with great interest and a recording of the concert is to be broadcast on Swedish Radio later this year. The accordionists had prepared one extra piece for the audience and played “Toledos Adios” by Beltrami. Håvard Svendsrud will be back with a new concert and new guest artists at the Oslo Concert Hall in the autumn of 2010. |