"Accordiana" - dazzling accordion performance of his own composition by Charles Magnante
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- Опубликовано: 10 дек 2023
- I've been told that Charles actually invented this as a warm-up exercise (instead of those boring scales) before his performances. Eventually his friends suggest that he give it a name & publish it. Well,...he did just that & it became his best-selling composition. Although it's not in the class of 'serious music,' I still find It's such a great pleasure to hear the beautiful crisp technique of the great Charles Magnante. His staccato is amazing! Staccato on the piano is quite different from an 'accordion staccato.' You cannot get this kind of a staccato on a piano.
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Wow Paul, another gem. Thank you! In a recent RUclips interview since his passing, a much younger Dick Contino is heard saying that Charles Magnante is his hero. Back in the early 1970's I bought two vinyl albums of Charles Magnante called Romantic Accordion, Volumes 1 & 2. I had them converted to compact disc and listen to them quite a bit over the last 20 years.
Now I'm going to veer off for a moment to Marc Martel and how he learned to become a great singer without ever reaching for a vocal coach. His claim is that I just imitated all the great singers there were.
Many of the really popular accordion players in demand today all claim they were greatly influenced by the styles and techniques of Charles Magnante.
Me too. And over the last 20 years I've been imitating his fingering techniques over and over, and over and over. I'll do that steadily for hours and hours for about 3 days in a row. Then I take a break for a day or two and then incorporate in other music the fingering style and techniques that I learned just imitating Magnante. What an improvement. Once you get that muscle and nerve memory into your fingers, it doesn't let go. As a matter of fact, it starts to feel like second nature as though I had it in me all the time. It's all about the hard work and input of practicing over and over that can begin to sound dreary and tiring. But I learned a basic secret and that is to go back and capture my original emotion and feeling of interest when I first started the exercise. It suddenly begins to feel like I'm just starting the exercises for the first moments, even though I may have been doing them for hours. Even though my biological age is 82 since 7th December, it's that inner childlike age that has to be created within as a counter balance that makes all the difference. I've never seen a photograph of Charles looking old. Appearing quite mature, yes. But never old. He certainly performs with the freshness of eternal youth and I think that's important. Thank you again Paul.
Thanks Richard, you could never go wrong in imitating the great Magnante! I remember the famous pianist Arthur Rubenstein decried the fact that, although Rachmaninov has recorded all three of his piano concerti, very few modern concert pianists have taken advantage of those recordings. I think too many people don't like to hear other artists because they're afraid of being called 'imitators.' Yet I think that no imitation is exact because personal nuances will always come through.
Paul, you absolutely have this so correct. when you speak of "personal nuances." It's a kind of natural biological/psychological detachment that uplifts the emotional state of the performer, thus the performance; a brilliance that speaks for itself. I have those Rubenstein recordings. Listening to the second concerto almost always has me in an ecstatic swoon. So it is sparing when I listen to it. but a divine experience non the less. Thank you Paul. Another time.
Yes I do carnelo put it on arrangement 😊😊
This is an original by Charles Magnante. It is called 'Accordiana".
Thanks Richard I'll correct the title right away!
Accordiana is the piece he’s playing
Thanks Emilio I'll correct the title immediately!
Charles original