Sul Tasto
	Luca Piovesan
	Luca Piovesan
	21 May 2013

This new recording by Luca Piovesan is quite important since Luca is providing new music by very outstanding composers who may never have written for the instrument without Luca’s personal involvement. He quite obviously earned their respect, admiration and enough interest in the accordion to write for it. The seven composers included are active in several areas. Serious accordionists of all ages will find these pieces of great value. The pieces demonstrate how well the accordion adapts to the different styles of various writers. In fact, one may even download a copy of one of the pieces, “Pāramitā” by Gabriel Mălăncioiu by going to his website www.gabrielmalancioiu.org thereby giving a visual as well as the aural appreciation.

Luca Piovesan plays exceedingly well, there is no doubt that it was this type of performance which garnered the plaudits of these well-known composers. A casual listener may have a difficult time liking every single composition but there is no doubt he will like some of them enough to want to find them, practice and also perform them, too. For those performers wishing to find new compositions for the accordion, this CD presents many challenging possibilities.

“Sul Tasto” is the result of a two and a half years long project, a result of his cooperation with the seven composers: Yotam Haber, Lorenzo Troiani, Nildo Sanvido, Alberto la Rocca, Davide Ianni, Gabriel Mălăncioiu, and Filippo Perocco. The pieces are recorded on this CD for the first time. They are very worthwhile. I found some real favorites and so will you!

The composers represented on “ Sul Tasto” make interesting reading for those of you wishing to research their names and their musical activities. This also helps listeners understand and appreciate the compositions represented on this new recording much better. This research and the fine accompanying notes included on the CD jacket will also illuminate the compositions on the recording. These seven composers have earned a widely-spread musical fame in receiving important awards and related activities as conductors, professors, and performers. Luca, of course, was included in some of this work. He is to be commended for his pursuit of this music and the resultant recording. It is produced by Blowout Records as CD5 2013.

Luca Piovesan may be reached at the following:
www.lucapiovesan.it
info@lucapiovesan.it
or on skype at: lucapiovesan

This recording is again one of those which should be made available in music libraries around the world for composers and accordionists to hear and study. Active composers are always searching for new possibilities, new instruments for which to write, and, also, excellent musicians to perform their compositions. This is reason enough to introduce them to well written accordion music of today, really somewhat “hot off the press” which is, additionally, performed by an excellent accordionist. Buy one for you and one for the local conservatory.



Reviewed by Joan C.Sommers– May, 2013.