Release Date: 06 February 2026
Label: Delphian Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 801918343612
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Composer/Series: ContraDANCE
Description
The unusual and compelling instrumental pairing of saxophone and accordion has received impressive advocacy in recent years from the duo of Canadian saxophonist David Zucchi and Spanish accordionist Inigo Mikeleiz-Berrade, whose repertoire ranges from reimagined classics to newly commissioned works and improvisation. Their debut album ContraDANCE gathers five works which draw in different ways on the rhythms, contextsand sheer ebullience of popular dance forms. Scottish composer Aileen Sweeney evokes the northern lights in music which draws on the folk traditions of Norway and Shetland.The duo's own transcriptions of suites by Granados, Ravel and Bartok bear witnessto the presence of folk styles and idioms stretching from the Mediterranean and Central Europe to North Africa in their respective composers' musical imaginations, while Alex Paxton's unforgettable Water Butt: lovers, snorkel transcends place and time in an unrelenting build-up of joy and bodily ecstasy.
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