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Bravissimo!! Questa e:la fisarmonica classica che amo!🙏👏👍

I play many of his arrangements. Much respect for him. I have two copies of this very arrangement of Rhapsody in Blue that I play. Rather than pushing only for technical perfection like so many teachers, he was big on teaching correct phrasing, dynamics, and how to play a piece like the composer intended. He was still teaching and playing nearly to when he passed away at 100 years old. Later in life he performed for smaller groups and clubs and ran the yearly accordion camp in Washington state. I attended a couple of his performances when he was in his 90s and his playing was still outstanding. RIP Maestro

Well Paul, you and I have communicated over the last few years (name was @richardplante1229 then, have new handle now) and you seemed dissatisfied with the way you were performing overall. It was like something was missing. Then 5 months ago you played Scarlatti's sonata in d minor and voila... it was like a newer, more confident Paul had just arrived. It made me take notice. And the way you played this piece by Beethoven is spectacular. No hesitation, just a pure flow of confidence with sound. That's real music! I love to grow and I love to see others grow too. Thanks Paul. P.S. I'm enjoying listening to this so much, I've lost count of how many times I've replayed the video.

I heard that the piece was inspired by Musetta's Aria from LaBohene! I don't know if that is true but if you listen to the Aria and than this (slowed down of course) you can see where that idea may have come from.

Maravilhoso!!!❤❤❤❤

You clearly put hard work and practice into this and it shows! Bravo!

Nice performance!

Beautifully played with great classical taste. Bravo ❤

Time to catch up again Kate! T & D! Love you Leo!

Didn't know you could shake your hand like that. Thank you for posting.

I knew and heard John play when I lived in San Francisco. I loved his arrangements and clean playing.

Excellent work! BTW This is not by THE Franz Schubert that we all know and love. It is by François Schubert. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Schubert

One of my favorite performers of the day. His accordion was a chromatic keyboard but he made it look like a piano accordion keyboard since piano keyboards were the new "thing" and he wanted to make sure he was "fitting in". as it were. I saw one of these about 50 years ago in a California accordion store. I wonder if it might have been one of Pietro's.

Very cool piece of music. Precisely executed! I find these less obviously melodic pieces challenging to memorize.

Beautifully played. I'm going to share this video with an organ playing friend. I still occasionally play a Giulietti bassetti without tone chamber, like the one you used to play. Do you ever choose to play it anymore, since getting your bigger one?

Intro sounds like a minor key variation of the intro from his Jolla Caballero

My favorite!

I love it. Note the chromatically descending diminished seventh chords in the beginning intro. It’s not notated in the music.

Fabulous musician!

bravo, thanks, superb!

Regarding Accordion Land: I love your website. Thank you for presenting Mogens Ellegaard's recordings, and so many others.. One quibble regarding the reeds in the GOLA...there is no such thing as gold-plated reeds. Please keep up your good work. Thanks.

He was much more than 'quite a virtuoso for the day'! The fine playing in just this short piece requires a depth of technique, sensitivity to style, and taste, that many accordionists today have not acquired...and I dare say, do not care to acquire. Ellegaard was a great musician playing the accordion. I would make that claim only about a small group of so-called virtuosos today. Ellegaard also remained open to accordion development and adopted the Russian Bayan (in a C system configuration built in the Jupiter shop by Sergei Barinov). Finally, he selflessly pursued and promoted the continued development of original repertory. It will be a long time before his musicianship and contribution to music and the instrument will be surpassed.

Indeed that is one of his best recordings (sound quality wise and also performance wise). I have the music for this and have attempted to learn it but usually get interrupted by life. I might give it a go again. While some might have both an acoustic accordion and a modern digital accordion as I do.... it might be a fun exercise to use the capabilities of a digital accordion to perform it. The Grand Canyon Suite always intrigued me and I love the "tone poem" and special effects when an orchestra plays it.

I play this on my piano accordion with Stradella bass. The Fugue part of this isn't played here but to play correctly you need a free bass. I do have a converter free bass when I need to play both movements.

I knew John when I lived in San Francisco. Fine performer and fun to hear him play.

Thanks for posting this. He was quite the virtuoso for the day. Some performers of the modern era have gone beyond this but he was one of the first to show what could be done with a free bass accordion. The Russians took it to the next level with their Bayans. As a 76 year old accordionist (also free bass but piano treble keyboard), I am impressed how the accordion design and technology moved so quickly considering it is a relatively very young instrument.

Very enjoyable. Bellow changes are so clever that it sound like an organ. If expressiveness is the key, somewhat less tempo might be applicable, in a way that each new harmony comes as a surprise, like it would have been invented in the moment it is played... that will come automatically when the piece is left alone for a few weeks and then played again. Bravo!

Sounds great. Yeah Bach!

bravoo you play it so well!

Merveilleusement interprété❤️ Le tltre c'est tsiganochka🎶

Charles original

Yes I do carnelo put it on arrangement 😊😊

That his favorite accordion

Carmelo no slouch man clasical un real

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He played it rite proper😊

My teacher carmelo pino his teacher charles mag😊😊

Yes the best😊😊

Great version.

Bellissimo!

Buonasera Paul, grazie di questo brano alla fisarmonica interpretato bellissimo da un vero maestro,e vero che la sua Tonaveri che suonava e la stessa Sonola SS20 o sbaglio, grazie e Dio ti benedica

Epoustouflant!Bravoooo.

Very nice! I live in Michigan but less severe weather than where you live.... but I enjoyed your comments about why so many good Canadian musicians ;-) I play piano accordion with converter B system free bass Vignoni and also a Roland FR 8X Dallape setup same way. I also play electronic and pipe organs but first love is the accordion.

Красота,легко,изящно,чёткий темп!

Nice arrangement

Fantastic Accordion Playing

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Hermoso arreglo e interpretación en el acordeón !!!!

Beautifully performed. Are you amping the bass but not the treble? Not sure I like that for recorded performance.... I would amp both or not at all. In any case, Charles would approve!

My teacher long ago... and the best.Dynamics and Expressions teacher.