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21-Oct-2011
by Rob Howard
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 A concert in featuring the accordion/piano duo Ksenija Sidorova and Stefan Ciric in The Friends of Blackheath Halls series at the Recital Room on October 10th was reviewed by Peter Grahame Woolf, founder editor of the web music magazine ‘Seen & Heard’:-A marvelous experience for Blackheath's lunch-time audience, numbering a healthy 40 or so who risked "an accordion recital", which is still far from mainstream. I have heard and reviewed Ksenija some four times and enthused about her debut CD. Hers is the most visual of instruments and watching her play is riveting, and Blackheath's small Recital Room proved an ideal venue. This lunchtime recital with her partner Stefan Ciric was possibly the best experience of all, and the one with greatest potential significance. Strange to tell, the accordion/piano duo is a rarity, possibly unique, but its potential is unlimited. I had been a devotee of the accordion and collector of accordion recordings since the days of the Danish pioneer Mogens Ellegard, but had never heard accordion with piano...What looked to be a demanding programme for listeners proved not so. Two novelties, by the Russian Tatiana Sergeyeva and the Finn Heikki Valpola, who has composed numerous works for accordion. Cesar Franck's ‘Prelude, Fugue et Variation Op 16’. Finally Piazzolla's ‘Four Seasons’, long "After Vivaldi" and a happy conclusion, with Piazzolla's ‘Oblivion’ for the encore insisted upon by the enthusiastic audience. |