After many years of teaching Accordion Jeanette and Lars Dyremose realised that there was a real need to supplement the existing Accordion literature with works focusing pedagogically on the development of specific skills necessary to master the technical demands of the instrument. This book not only contains some excellent pieces of Accordion repertoire but also gives information on the methodology behind 'The Life-Giving Bellows Playing' a study they believe to be a prerequisite for artistic Accordion playing.

After many years of teaching Accordion Jeanette and Lars Dyremose realised that there was a real need to supplement the existing Accordion literature with works focusing pedagogically on the development of specific skills necessary to master the technical demands of the instrument. This book not only contains some excellent pieces of Accordion repertoire but also gives information on the methodology behind 'The Life-Giving Bellows Playing' a study they believe to be a prerequisite for artistic Accordion playing.

After many years of teaching Accordion Jeanette and Lars Dyremose realised that there was a real need to supplement the existing Accordion literature with works focusing pedagogically on the development of specific skills necessary to master the technical demands of the instrument. This book not only contains some excellent pieces of Accordion repertoire but also gives information on the methodology behind 'The Life-Giving Bellows Playing' a study they believe to be a prerequisite for artistic Accordion playing.

For Solo Accordion. Commissioned by the Finnish Accordion Institute. Dedicated to Matti Rantanen.

Looking On Darkness for Accordion solo was composed by Bent Sørensen in 2000. Programme note: It is in the attempt to recreate a lost world without any illusion of its feasibility that we find the Danish composer Bent Sørensen's beautiful and melancholic music. Sørensen one of the most frequently performed contemporary Scandinavian composers has taken the title Looking on Darkness from Shakespeare's Sonnet No. 27. The thematic and intellectually clearly constructed form in which the inherent emotion is centrally placed and which characterises the sonnet also forms the basis of Sørensen'scomposition which is dedicated to Frode Haltli. As in Shakespeare's sonnet the past memory arises in Sørensen's music as it were out of nothing out of the darkness the silence; the concrete rattle of the accordion buttons and the sensitive dripping notes in the opening section vibrate on the borderline between the concrete and the hereafter. Loss and mourning for that which is lost and will never come again flow into the fleeting and poetic tones and meld together; the music oscillates lingers holds tightly to the absence slackens its grip tries again moves carefully onwards like the fragmentary memories in Samuel Beckett's late prose before the sorrowful voice of the piece just as beautiful and unobtrusive withdraws again and leaves us to the silence to what used to be.

Without A Title Op.72 is a 1972 work for Accordion by Danish composer Poul Rovsing Olsen dedicated to Mogens Ellegaard.

CANZONE was written in 1977-78 by a very young and not very well-known Hans Abrahamsen who later went on to make a brillant international career for himself as one of Denmark's leading and most original composers.