The Great Regondi: Volume 2

David Starobin (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: David Starobin
• Audio CD (December 13, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bridge
• ASIN: B000003GJD
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #428,678 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Truly unique!, July 14, 2000

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Jeremy Borum - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Great Regondi: Volume 2 (Audio CD)

Few people took the concertina seriously when composing "serious" music in the 19th century, but Regondi was one of them. An ancestor of the accordion, the concertina is a hexagonal-type accordion with only buttons, no keys. Regondi wrote some really wonderful things for the concertina, and I found myself liking the sound and style of the accordion sound when I have never in my life enjoyed the accordion at all. "Leisure Moments" is particularly nice. It has a Brahms-like piano accompaniment to concertina playing. It's really wonderful and truly unique because the concertina is treated as a melodic instrument instead of an "oom-pah" instrument. Regondi was also an excellent guitar player and wrote much classical guitar music, which is represented on this CD as well. Overall a very interesting CD, although not without a few weaknesses. But what CD isn't? If you'd like something completely stylistically unique, this is the recording for you. Volume 1 is nice as well, but it's unfortunately out of print.