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Excelente

fantastic piece. Is there a way I could get the sheets for that?

Muy bueno

I agree that John was the foremost serradella accordionist (tied with Galla-Rini). In 1970 I had the privilege of performing on the same program with John in Vancouver Camarda, he was great! Also, he played Bacchanale that evening.

Danke für die Veröffentlichung. Tolle Interpretation.

Umm. Wow! Now this is what I call FOCUS. Fortunately I had a very good music teacher who grounded me in musical theory and technical practice but he also weeded out my physical and psychological weaknesses. He confided that my confidence is naturally virtuoso because I love what I'm doing and I no longer have these characteristic impediments that a novice has. After 5 years I played with this same confidence. I promise anyone, focus by weeding out your weaknesses and what will be left is your strengths, if you truly love what you are doing. Thank you Paul for this little gem.

Wow it sounds great! I have an AA20 and was wondering how much you were charged for the work done?

Fantastic Playing

Thank you for your performance; delightful! All do for the tip on " Andre" and his work !

that accordion speaks softly Italian....

Ole !!!!!!. If you want to improve THIS piece, just listen to BANDS from Valencia. !!!!

Grazie,per questa fisarmonica nel repertorio classico e concertostico.🙏👏👍

Well Paul, congratulations are in order. First on successfully getting the salvation of your prized Sonola back again and I see that your thumb is not bothering you. Is your Sonola Stradella only or can you also switch it to free base? I can really hear the quality of the reeds in the treble and the base sounds really solid, not all over the place. I find myself wishing you would choose a longer piece of music but you played that so nicely. Compared to your playing ability, I listened to another guy who was struggling with the music to Brahm's Hungarian Dance No. 6. I kind of went ouch when I heard him struggle but I know he would have wanted me to comment, so the kindest thing I could put down as a comment was: "When I play that piece, I sometime think that it is better to have loved and lost than to not have loved at all." And that statement is occasionally absolutely true for me. There are days when the energy won't work for me and I wish I had gone and played pool or done something else.

Sublime even with just your right hand! Wishing you a smooth recovery 👏✨

Wow! Amazing piece of music. Made me feel as though I'm walking through a pasture with some bits of forest here and there and suddenly I pick up the sound of some birds energetically communicating. And your confidence on the keyboard is amazing. it really is. Of course, not lost on me was the absence of base because you need to rest your thumb. But the music already sounds pretty busy just with the treble. Pretty but busy. Well, I'll just have to hear it with the base another time in order to edit my final opinion. But beautiful piece of music and I loved the confidence in your playing. I would love you to post more of your own playing more often. It's like I starve otherwise.

Wow! This sounds amazing!

Splendida Esecuzione🙏👍👈😊

There's a lot of talent there.

What is the difference of this Sonola ss20 with the one that has diffierent type of Sonola font? Which one is better?

Where can I find the sheet music? This is so great

do you have sheet music for accordion for this? i want to learn it or did he just transfer the notes from piano to the bass side ?

Precioso!😊🪗👍🙂

The accordion is a good instrument for this song, with its distinct bass notes. Good playing.

Excelente acordeonista

Favor colocar mais musicas deste artista 👏👍

Well, with Roger Miller telling us way back when that we couldn't go roller skating in a buffalo herd and... all the other nonsensical things we couldn't do, I was certain my problems with accordion bass were behind me. That is until... until I ran into technical problems trying to perform complex compositions that my course teachings had never prepared me for. Oh the p-a-i-n! But intuitively, as I later realized in hindsight, I knew what to do and got myself a book just devoted to accordion bass exercises and drills that eventually enabled me to overcome those problems I had encountered in trying to tackle those compositions in the first place. And the problems I had encountered was this very thing that Galla-Rini demonstrates can be done. You just have to go through the pain... a lot of work and practice. Or... you'll sentence your ability to be a decent accordionist to death, if you try to avoid what's in front of you to confront and overcome. Well that was long ago and finishing in Roger Miller's lyrical refrain: "You can be happy if you've a mind to." Thanks Paul, and how are you doing by the way!

Bravissimo maestro

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.