S'il Vous Plait / piano works transcribed for accordion

Hailed as ‘Queen of the classical accordion’, Mie Miki made her first public appearance at the age of five, and has since then given countless concerts. This CD brings together pieces that she doesn’t necessarily perform in public, however - rather they are the ones that she plays when needing to take a break from practicing her next concert program: old friends and new, childhood acquaintances, and some surprise guests from a wholly different musical universe. Pieces for harpsichord (Daquin’s Cuckoo or Handel’s Blacksmith) or piano (Stravinsky’s Tango and Schubert’s two Moments musicaux) rub shoulders with original accordion compositions such as Wolfgang Jacobi’s Sérénade. Moods range from the irrepressible Miss Karting, straight out of the great French musette tradition, and the breakneck comedy of Road Runner, to the intense pathos of Astor Piazzolla’s Chiquilín de Bachín and the calm serenity of A Spotless Rose, in Brahms’ setting (originally an organ prelude). As Mie Miki explains in her introduction, the disc ‘represents a mosaic landscape, a product of coincidences, dreams, journeys, memories and nostalgia’, from which the listener is free to choose pieces according to mood and whim - finding something suitable for any occasion. And this performer’s ability to capture all of this with her wonderfully expressive instrument has been tried and tested - for instance on her recording of Grieg piano pieces, BIS-CD-1629, of which the reviewer in Fanfare wrote: ‘It would be hard not to like this CD... it brings a smile to my lips whenever I play it.’

Notes & Reviews:

Recording information: Länna Church, Sweden (10/2009).

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Works Details

Daquin, Louis-Claude : 3ème Suite, 1er livre de pièces de clavecin :: Le Coucou

Performer: Mie Miki (Accordion)
Running Time: 1 min. 44 sec.
Period Time: Classical
Written: circa 1735

Rameau, Jean-Philippe : Pièces de clavecin :: Rigaudons Nos. 1 & 2

Performer: Mie Miki (Accordion)
Running Time: 1 min. 20 sec.
Period Time: Baroque
Written: 1724

Scarlatti, Domenico : Sonata in C minor, K. 11 :: Allegro

Performer: Mie Miki (Accordion)
Running Time: 2 min. 47 sec.
Period Time: Baroque
Written: 1738-1739

Handel, George Frideric : Suite no 5 for harpsichord, HWV 430 "The Harmonious Blacksmith" :: Aria & Variaions

Performer: Mie Miki (Accordion)
Running Time: 4 min. 52 sec.
Period Time: Baroque
Written: circa 1710-1720

Jacobi, Wolfgang : Divertissement, for accordion

Performer: Mie Miki (Accordion)
Running Time: 3 min. 44 sec.
Period Time: Modern

Schubert, Franz : Moments musicaux (6) for Piano, D 780/Op. 94

Performer: Mie Miki (Accordion)
Running Time: 1 min. 48 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Written: 1823

Schubert, Franz : Moments musicaux (6) for Piano, D 780/Op. 94

Performer: Mie Miki (Accordion)
Running Time: 2 min. 35 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Written: 1823

Brahms, Johannes : 11 Choral-Vorspiele für die Orgel, Op. 122 :: no 8. Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen

Performer: Mie Miki (Accordion)
Running Time: 3 min. 41 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Written: 1896

Ibert, Jacques : Histoires for piano solo :: Le vieux mendiant

Performer: Mie Miki (Accordion)
Running Time: 2 min. 28 sec.
Period Time: Modern
Written: 1922

Ibert, Jacques : Histoires for piano solo :: Le petit âne blanc

Performer: Mie Miki (Accordion)
Running Time: 1 min. 59 sec.
Period Time: Modern
Written: 1922

Stravinsky, Igor : Tango

Performer: Mie Miki (Accordion)
Running Time: 3 min. 4 sec.
Period Time: Modern
Written: 1940

Glass, Philip : Modern Love Waltz, for piano (or chamber ensemble)

Performer: Mie Miki (Accordion)
Running Time: 1 min. 54 sec.
Period Time: Contemporary
Form: Waltz
Written: 1979

André Roques : Miss Karting, for piano

Performer: Mie Miki (Accordion)
Notes: This work was written in collaboration with André Astier (1923 - 1994).
Running Time: 2 min. 14 sec.
Period Time: Modern

Rossi, Joe : Novelty Polka, for piano

Performer: Mie Miki (Accordion)
Notes: This work was written in collaboration with André Astier (1923 - 1994).
Running Time: 2 min. 41 sec.
Period Time: Modern

Legrand, Michel : Les Parapluies de Cherbourg :: Theme

Performer: Mie Miki (Accordion)
Running Time: 4 min. 17 sec.
Period Time: Contemporary
Form: Film Score
Written: 1963

Piazzolla, Astor : S.V.P. (S'il vous plaît), tango

Performer: Mie Miki (Accordion)
Running Time: 2 min. 49 sec.
Period Time: Modern
Written: circa 1955

Piazzolla, Astor : Chiquilín de Bachin

Performer: Mie Miki (Accordion)
Running Time: 3 min. 56 sec.
Period Time: Modern
Form: Vocal
Written: 1969

Piazzolla, Astor : Chau Paris

Performer: Mie Miki (Accordion)
Running Time: 2 min. 51 sec.
Period Time: Modern
Written: 1955

Piazzolla, Astor : La bicicleta blanca, tango song

Performer: Mie Miki (Accordion)
Running Time: 4 min. 57 sec.
Period Time: Modern
Written: 1971

Confrey, Zez [Composer] : Dizzy Fingers for piano

Performer: Mie Miki (Accordion)
Running Time: 1 min. 50 sec.
Period Time: Modern
Written: 1923

Zorn, John [Composer] : Road Runner for accordion solo

Performer: Mie Miki (Accordion)
Running Time: 5 min. 10 sec.
Period Time: Contemporary
Written: 1986

Oginski, Michal Kleofas : Polonaise for piano in A minor "Farewell to the Fatherland"

Performer: Mie Miki (Accordion)
Running Time: 3 min. 35 sec.
Period Time: Classical

Shostakovich, Dmitri : Ballet Suite no 3 :: Farewell Waltz (from Roundabout of Dances)

Performer: Mie Miki (Accordion)
Notes: Composition written: 1952.
Running Time: 2 min. 57 sec.
Period Time: Modern
Form: Ballet
Written: 1952

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