Valpola Heikki: Contacts for two accordions

Valpola Heikki: Contacts for two accordions.

New Finnish Chamber Music for the Accordion is a series of publications Finnish accordionistshave long been waiting for. Internationally, new Finnish accordion music is characterized by highartistic level and, on the other hand, colourful instrumentality. The works fascinate both themusician and the audience.These features also characterize the works in this series of publications.Technically, most of the works do not require extreme mastering of virtuosity.

Heikki Valpola's chamber music is charaterized by musically well concentrated impression. Mr.Valpola is not interested in pure virtuosity just in order to practise finger technique, even thoughsome of his works may be based on more popular traditional music for the accordion. On the otherhand, this gives his music a certain fresh and stimulating sense of folk music, which makes theworks easy for the listeners to understand and gives the musician a chance for interpretationscombining old and new tradition.

Grade C

Edited by Matti Rantanen

ISMN M55003-166-1

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