Release Date: 31 October 2025
Label: Outhere / Alpha
Packaging Type: Gate Fold
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 3701624512296
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
Composer/Series: Balada para un loco (LP)
Description
Accordionist Theo Ould describes this new album as "my most shameful -- it's as if I hadn't let myself play Astor's music, not got my accordion out of the world of musical cliches, and concentrated on works that were more classical in style". Theo's vocation, however, nonetheless became evident when he heard Piazzolla's Libertango at the age of 6! This Frenchman from Marseille, 20 years later, now tackles this music with fervour, exaltation, tailor-made arrangements, and the complicity of the Bilitis quartet, alongside double bass player Blanche Strombon; the mezzo-soprano Marina Viotti also appears in a generous and beautiful Balada para un loco, Piazzolla's setting of a poem by Horacio Ferrer. Theo Ould is deeply involved with this music, sharing his passion with us and inviting us to join in Ferrer's Balada: "Crawl into this tender delirium that burns within me, put on this wig wovrn from larks -- and fly! Fly with me now! Come along, fly, come!"
Benjamin Appl, James Baillieu
Frankfurt Radio Symphony; Alain Altinoglu
La Nereide
Justin Taylor
Emmanuel Ceysson; Veronique Gens; Quatuor Voce
Barbara Hannigan; David Chalmin; Katia Labeque; Marielle Labeque
Ensemble Altera; Christopher Lowrey
Giovanni Antonini; Kammerorchester Basel
Theo Ould
