Origami Teodoro Anzellotti

• Georges Aperghis (b. 1945): Merry Go Round:
• 1Aperghis: Merry Go Round10:06
• Johannes Boris Borowski (b. 1979): Lied:
• 2Borowski: Lied08:07
• Vykintas Baltakas (b. 1972): Cladi:
• 3Baltakas: Cladi08:57
• Anna Korsun (b. 1986): Hauchdünn:
• 4Korsun: Hauchdünn11:34
• Miroslav Srnka (b. 1975): Origami:
• 5Srnka: Origami11:33
• Total Runtime50:17

Info for Origami

Origami is me first attempt to explore this instrument thoroughly. The accordion captivates with its sonority, but I did not want to let myself be tempted by it only sensually. For me, the accordion contains two worlds, as the button arrangements on the two sides of the instrument show: The diatonic chords arranged in a circle of fifths on one side come from a world "before contemporary music". The chromatically arranged notes on the other side, on the other hand, offer every conceivable possibility of sounding together, which accommodates abstract, almost algorithmic thinking. I have tried to combine these two worlds: The juxtaposed, pre-contemporary chords lose their tonal characters through a flowing and overlapping linkage and become an undulating harmonic kaleidoscope. The other, symmetrical world is represented by a chord logic and connection method based primarily on common "edges" of adjacent chords. I connect both this chord logic and the true physiology of the instrument in my idea of "folding". From here it is only a Schmitt to the art of folding, to origami, which has always fascinated me through its deliberate limitation of material and simplicity. ...

Teodoro Anzellotti, accordion

Teodoro Anzellotti
Born in Apulia in southern Italy, Teodoro Anzellotti grew up near Baden-Baden. He pursued his accordion studies at the Hochschulen in Karlsruhe and Trossingen and quickly achieved victories at various international competitions.

Since the 1980s he has been a regular guest at the major festivals and with leading orchestras. Teodoro Anzellotti has successfully contributed to integrating the accordion into the sphere of classical music.

This has occurred principally through his service to New Music: through his development of performing techniques he has enlarged the tone-color capabilities and sonic profile of his instrument.

More than 300 new works have been written for Teodoro Anzellotti, by composers such as George Aperghis, Brice Pauset, Heinz Holliger, Toshio Hosokawa, Mauricio Kagel, Michael Jarrell, Isabel Mundry, Gerard Pesson, Matthias Pintscher, Wolfgang Rihm, Salvatore Sciarrino, Marco Stroppa, Jörg Widmann und Hans Zender.

Luciano Berio created for him his Sequenza XIII, which Mr. Anzellotti premiered in Rotterdam in 1995 and subsequently performed at major festivals worldwide. Since 1987 he has taught at the Hochschule der Künste Bern, and since 2002 at the Musikhochschule Freiburg im Breisgau as well.

His discography embraces a spectrum reaching from Bach and Scarlatti to Janácek and Satie to John Cage and Matthias Pintscher.

Booklet for Origami