"Valse Arabesque op 82" (T. Lack) - as recorded in 1999 by the famous accordionist Leo Aquino

I managed to find another wonderful recording by Leo that I hadn't posted. It's an abridged transcription of the French professor & composer Theodore Lack's piano composition. An "Arabesque" is the name for those beautiful interweaving spiral-like border ornaments they used to put on the pages of old books & posters. And so the music mimics the graceful weaving & turning pattern of these "arabesques." Here Leo plays an arrangement by D. Desiderio.

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Thanks for posting. This brings back so many memories of listening to Leo and sharing the pure joy of him being one with his accordion.

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Glad you enjoyed it

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To my ear this is more demonstration of technique than enjoyment of melody.

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Leo always was the quintessential showman in his earlier years, but he did did become more expressive later in life.

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