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Ryan Corbett is getting widespread international recognition for his outstanding talent as a classical accordionist. In 2021 he was awarded the prestigious Gold Medal at the Royal Over-Seas League annual music competition. His programme reflects a wide range of music ‘borrowed’ from other instrumental repertoire such as Liszt’s prelude and fugue for organ and Scarlatti’s sonata for keyboard. It also features a selection of the growing repertoire for this relatively new instrument in the classical genre. The Russian composers Anatoly Kusyakov and Viacheslav Semyonov and French composer Angelis are all composers whose main focus is the accordion. The romantic piano piece Caprice Espagnol by Moszkowski gets an accordionists’ make-over by Ryan to demonstrate his virtuosic prowess.

Liszt: Prelude and Fugue on the Theme B-A-C-H, S 260/2
D. Scarlatti: Sonata in F Major, K. 107
D. Scarlatti: Sonata in D Major k. 96
Kusyakov: Sonata No. 4
Moszkowski: Caprice Espagnol, Op. 37
Angelis: Romance
Semyonov: Don Rhapsody (iii)
Mendelssohn – Rondo Capriccioso (5.36)

Ryan Corbett, accordion

Stephen Broad, presenter
Lindsay Pell, producer