Ksenija Sidorova and the Latvian Radio Big Band

From the fateful and fiery music from Carmen to the harmonic and beautiful music of Johann Sebastian Bach and on to the dizzyingly sharp orchestral music of Astor Piazzolla – all of that will be offered to the audience by the virtuoso accordionist Ksenija Sidorova, who is imbued with a masculine clench and an intuitively gracious form of performance.  Sidorova is known all around the world as the leading ambassadress of accordion music.  She has just concluded an exclusive agreement with Europe’s most distinguished sound recording company, Deutsche Grammophon.  Ksenija was born in Rīga but, for the last several years, has lived and worked in London, where she received her master’s degree with honours from the London Royal Academy of Music.

Ksenija Sidorova continues to surprise and enchant her audiences, and she is always looking for new and diverse partners.  Her relationship with the Latvian Radio Big Band has survived the test of time, and tempting jazz rhythms will be heard tonight with the simmering scores of Leonard Bernstein, the melodies of Harry Warren and the robust tango rhythms of Astor Piazzolla.  The audience will also enjoy Bach’s Concerto in D Minor for harpsichord, as performed with the fairly similar register sounds of the accordion.

Programme

Johann Sebastian Bach and Leonard Bernstein, arranged in jazz versions

Participants

Ksenija Sidorova, accordion
The Latvian Radio Big Band