Accordion recordings of the pieces (MP3)

Here are some MP3 recordings to give you an idea of the accordion pieces. See comments by visitors here.

• Air (4:56, MW)  Download 2895 KB
  An impression of nature.
• Alle Jahre wieder (4:50, MW)  Download 2842 KB
  For those of us who are tired of playing the same old Christmas carols again.
• Chained Escapee (1:44, RD)  Download 1026 KB
  The idea of the piece is a prisoner who tries to escape and finally succeeds. Similarities to existing individuals are unintended.
• Chaos (0:47, MW)  Download 462 KB
  Not really what the title says but rather turbulent.
• Dawn (1:26, MW)  Download 842 KB
  Description of a sunrise.
• English Dance (1:08, MW)  Download 668 KB
  In honour of the great British actor Ian Richardson for the movie House of Cards.
• Humoresque (1:58, RD)  Download 1154 KB
  There are many humorous tunes in Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. This theme varies one of them. There is a brief quotation from the original in measures 32 to 37.
• Imago Febris (1:03, RD)  Download 622 KB
  Fever image. Not health freak's thing.
• Jester (1:14, MW)  Download 725 KB
  Dedicated to any court-fool bringing his ruler under his control. All other fools may of course feel honoured as well.
• Last But One March (1:33, MW)  Download 915 KB
  In case you find the last one please let me know.
• Last But One Waltz (1:36, RD)  Download 948 KB
  In case you find the last one please let me know.
• Pantagruel (2:04, RD)  Download 1222 KB
  How would you imagine a drunken giant staggering around? The piece goes back to the novel Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais.
• Path of Leos (2:49, RD)  Download 1652 KB
  Written under the impression of Leos Janacek's piano composition On an Overgrown Path.
• Roadrunner (1:21, MW)  Download 802 KB
  The chaparral cock, nothing else. Sound your horn.
• Sailed (2:58, RD)  Download 1746 KB
  This piece tries to imitate the rolling of the boat and the wind.
• Sorrow (1:15, MW)  Download 737 KB
  No comment.
• Sprint (1:38, RD + IR)  Download 960 KB
  Do it quicker if you like.
• Tango Seco (1:27, RD)  Download 860 KB
  In Spanish seco means dry. A dry tango? Maybe.
• Uphill (2:05, RD)  Download 1230 KB
  Mountaineer's delight, first contemplative and later strenuous.
• Waves (2:44, MW)  Download 1611 KB
  An impression of nature.

Ruth Döhler (RD), Irene Renner (IR) and Martin Weyde (MW) performed the pieces and Martin Weyde wrote them.

SPECIAL 1
Franz Schubert, Andantino from Quintet for Piano and Strings in A (Trout Quintet) (7:47)  Download 4568 KB
This recording of 1977 is published here as accordionists rarely perform the piece. We did not seriously expect to sound like string instruments, musical adaptions have always been an ambivalent matter. Performed by Wolfgang Beyer (Piano), Martin Weyde (Accordion 1), Rita Sparfeldt (Accordion 2), Brigitte Stegmann (Accordion 3) and Ruth Döhler (Bass). Wolfgang Beyer played a grand, it is just an ancient recording.

SPECIAL 2
March Parody (0:56)  Download 552 KB
There is a little march in Georg Espitalier's Vier Musikantenstücke for accordion orchestra. This is a synthesizer parody from the 80's. There was actually no reason to parody the piece but the result is fairly acceptable.