Coupé Mondial 2022
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Found both their sites, did not find one performance online at all. 
mtj
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2022 Coupe Mondiale Video Winners Concert, Zofingen, Switzerland, Confederation Internationale des Accordeonistes CIA
2022 Coupe Mondiale Video Winners Concert, Zofingen, Switzerland, The Confederation Internationale des Accodeonistes (CIA) are the organisers of the annual Coupe Mondiale World Accordion Championships
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hais1273
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I'm full of admiration for the musicians at the Coupe Mondial and the accordions sounded pretty damn good. But, you know, I didn't really like the music. I couldn't imagine sitting through several hours of this sort of thing.
Did anyone else find it interesting that all but two (last, and 3 first) names end in vowels? And one is ć which for all we know could be a vowel, and the other is simply a plural "s"? What does this mean exactly? I'm with Hais, this music is weird. Will it make the accordion lovers cringe as much as Lawrence Welk? Hard to say.
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hais1273
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It's more to do with my taste and outlook than the contestants abilities, I'm full of admiration for their abilities. When I get the chance I love to see Beethoven symphonies in a concert hall, same with Mussorgsky, Dvorak and Vaughn-Williams. Marvelous stuff. But, string quartets for example are not for me. When my wife was working in an academic library one of her colleagues found a then unknown chamber piece by a composer by the name of Moscheles ( not sure of the spelling) It was premiered at the University by one of the top chamber quartets, beautifully played, but to my ear and taste utterly and completely forgetable and frankly dead boring. Best Beloved had to keep nudging me to keep me awake...I like a good strong melody with a beginning, middle and solid ending or resolution.
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I had the same reaction to the performances. Wonderful technique by the performers but I found the music lacking and not to my taste.
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I wasn't going to say anything, but since it has come up... I enjoy my classical, but that music was so far left field, I could not watch more than a few seconds of each accordionist. The YouTube post above was somewhat better... but if I had to watch that kid looking like he was trying to service a phallis with that head movement, it would have driven me to the point of standing up and leaving the room (he needs to stop singing too... lol). Don't these people ever look at themselves on a video???
Dingo40
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I've often thought musical styles to be an acquired taste.
Tastes vary and change over time.
The same thing has happened in the visual arts: compare the moderns with the classics.
However, I generally prefer to stick with the ones that agree with the tastes I have already acquired
Just getting old, I guess
That's one of the benefits of growing old: you can usually afford to suit yourself!
Tastes vary and change over time.
The same thing has happened in the visual arts: compare the moderns with the classics.
However, I generally prefer to stick with the ones that agree with the tastes I have already acquired
Just getting old, I guess
That's one of the benefits of growing old: you can usually afford to suit yourself!
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Perhaps it was Georgi Mushel (sometimes written as Gueorgui Mouchel) from Tashkent, Uzbekistan?
Great composer, wrote classical and film music featuring strings, piano, organ and accordion amongst other things. Most stuff was never published and then hard to find after the collapse of the USSR. He was quite muti-talented and an accomplished painter as well.
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Siegmund
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Re the contestants... I think there are two things at play -- one is that there is usually a requirement in competitions to play one piece from each of several genres (one baroque, one classical or romantic, one modern, if you're doing transcriptions of orchestral music), and the other is that they need to be 'conspicuously virtuosic' to win these. A flawless performance of a too-easy piece of music doesn't win.
Looking at Viti's performance... both Brahms and Strauss (Hungarian Dance #5 and Radetzky March) were victims of "the original wasn't hard enough" and, at moments, both were strained almost beyond recognition. I would have preferred to hear them as their authors intended them, but I've posted about that annoying tendency of mine here before.
Re Moscheles: Ignaz Moscheles wrote a lot of music, but is remembered more for his friendships with Beethoven and Mendelssohn than for his own compositions (or his own career as a pianist.) I've never played or heard any of his music; didn't even know he wrote quartets, but I wouldn't be surprised. (I'm not surprised we don't hear them, either: there was a long dry spell after Beethoven and Schubert where nobody quite knew what to do with quartets.)
Looking at Viti's performance... both Brahms and Strauss (Hungarian Dance #5 and Radetzky March) were victims of "the original wasn't hard enough" and, at moments, both were strained almost beyond recognition. I would have preferred to hear them as their authors intended them, but I've posted about that annoying tendency of mine here before.
Re Moscheles: Ignaz Moscheles wrote a lot of music, but is remembered more for his friendships with Beethoven and Mendelssohn than for his own compositions (or his own career as a pianist.) I've never played or heard any of his music; didn't even know he wrote quartets, but I wouldn't be surprised. (I'm not surprised we don't hear them, either: there was a long dry spell after Beethoven and Schubert where nobody quite knew what to do with quartets.)
Dingo40
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Me too???
Caro Ric, nota per favore che in questa lista, quasi tutti i cognomi finiscono con una vocale. (In this list almost all of the last names end in a vowel). Viva Italia!
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Hilarious endorsement of this view if you watch from 4.40 to the end!Tastes vary and change over time.
However, I generally prefer to stick with the ones that agree with the tastes I have already acquired
Thomas N
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Ok, I spit out my coffee on this one! Excellent!
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