IMPASSE

Guillaume Meral (Accordion)

As a leading classical Accordion’s composer, Franck Angelis is known worldwide for his challenging, virtuosic and melodic compositions showing all the possibilities and colors of the instrument.

Recording an album dedicated to the French composer was something I always wanted to do. As many classical accordionists, I grew up and improve with his compositions. Turning around the piece Impasse, full of intensity, melancholy and anger, I wanted to express and convey all those emotions through my playing giving at possible all the intensity needed in such a piece. The choice and the order of the pieces was thought to make the listener discovering or reassess Angelis world through many different colors.

Franck Angelis:
 1. Intérieur
 2. Boîte à rythme
 3. Romance
 4. Impasse~Allegro ritmico
 5. Impasse~Andante doloroso
 6. Impasse~Adagio sostenuto
 7. Impasse~Vivace
 8. Soliloque

Sergei Voitenko:
 9. Révélation

"Accordeonist Gulliaume Meral bij TRPTK een album uit met muziek van landgenoot Franck Angelis, naast componist ook zelf actief als uitvoerend accordeonist, Iets dat ook geldt voor de Rus Sergei Voitenko, van wie Meral eveneens een stuk op dit album speelt.

Meral weet raad met de accordeon, hij zit er al sinds zijn zesde jaar mee op schoot en won een jaar later reeds de Parijse UNAF competitie. Hij deed zijn bachelor aan het conservatorium van Amsterdam en is nu met zijn master bezig aan de Academy of Music in Londen. Geen gemakkelijke composities, die stukken van Angelis, die zelf de wereldtop vertegenwoordigd. Maar goed, het was wat Meral persé wilde: ” Recording an album dedicated to the French composer was something I always wanted to do. As many classical accordionists, I grew up and improve with his compositions. Turning around the piece ‘Impasse’, full of intensity, melancholy and anger, I wanted to express and convey all those emotions through my playing giving at possible all the intensity needed in such a piece. The choice and the order of the pieces was thought to make the listener discovering or reassess Angelis world through many different colors.”
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