Stravinsky, Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky / Mythos Accordion Duo

IGOR STRAVINSKY (1882-1971)
Petrushka (1911)
First scene: The Shrovetide Fair
Second scene: In Petrushka's Room
Third scene: In The Moor's Room
Fourth scene: The Shrovetide Fair (Evening)
ALEXANDER BORODIN (1833-1887)
In The Steppes Of Central Asia (1880)
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893)
3 Movements from The Nutcracker (1892)
Miniature overture
Arabian Dance
Trepak
MODEST MUSSORGSKY (1839-1881)
A Night On The Bare Mountain (1860-67, rev.1886)
MYTHOS

Bjarke Mogensen (accordion)
Rasmus Schjærff Kjøller (accordion)

On this CD, four great composers come together to unfold various aspects of life and landscape, story-telling and myth, in 19thcentury Russia, their vast homeland. All the music heard here is famous already, known all over the world from theatres and concert halls and countless recordings - and it is famous for being expertly-scored orchestral music. Yet here those dazzling works are played on two classical accordions in the hands of a couple
of brilliant young academy-trained Danes. That does sound rather like a fairy-tale by Hans Christian Andersen, so let us take a closer look at the bayan and at the musical masterworks that we are going to hear, transcribed and performed by award-winning accordion duo MYTHOS, a.k.a. Bjarke Mogensen and Rasmus Schjærff Kjøller.