From Bach to Piazzolla: For Accordion and Strings

ACCORDION

The ERT Contemporary Music Orchestra in a programme with authentic music and arrangements for an instrument that seems to breathe like a human being. The accordion will sing, speak, whisper, and weep onstage in the hands of Christos Zerbinos. And, by his side, the sound of Iakovos Kolanian’s guitar providing an exquisite accompaniment to the music of German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Argentinian melodists.

 
– Johann Sebastian Bach–Charles Gounod: Ave Maria
– Antonín Dvořák: ‘Rusalka’, Act I: Song to the Moon 
 – Isaac Albéniz: Suite española No. 1, Op. 47: ‘Asturias’, ‘Sevilla’, ‘Aragón’ 
– Robert Schumann: Kinderszenen Op. 15, No. 7: ‘Träumerei’ 
– Ennio Morricone: Cinema Paradiso
– Luis Enríquez Bacalov: Il postino
– Ástor Piazzolla: Libertango, Double Concerto for Guitar, Accordion [Bandoneon] and String Orchestra 

Christos Zerbinos accordion
Iakovos Kolanian guitar

The ERT Contemporary Music Orchestra 
Conductor: Stathis Soulis