The Accordionist’s Catalog Support the USA’s only Accordion Museum offered by Harrington ARTS Center Get good musical items here! and A World of Accordions Museum Scholarly Books and References: Charles Magnante: America’s Great Accordionist. Fourth Edition. 156 pp. Includes a CD of 21 Magnante performances. Contents: Magnante’s Autobiography, Pictures; Compositions/Arrangements Indecies; Discography; Reminiscences; more $45.00 Charles Magnante: All-Time Favorites (CD from above book sold separately) Accordiana, Accordion Boogie, Dizzy Fingers, Flying Saucers, Green Light, Minuet in Jazz, Dance of Comedians, Concertstueck, Flight of the Bumble Bee, Holiday for Chords, Holiday for Bass, Hora Staccato, Malaguena, Perpetual Motion, Magnante Boogie, Gitanerias, Rhapsody in Blue, Andalucia, Carnival, Czardas, Carnival of Venice. $16.00 A Look Inside the Accordion. 30 pp. Booklet accompanies lecture/workshop, but contains lots of helpful information and charts that anyone can understand. Contents: Accordion-Family Instruments Chart; Parts of the Accordion; Air-flow Chart; Tone- producing Elements in Every Accordion; Use and Care; Storage and Shipping; Basic Cleaning Procedures; more. $12.00 Tuning by Owen Jorgensen An absolutely essential book for all who are or want to be tuners. Includes information about tuning antiquated and modern preferences. Focused on piano- instruments but useful to all keyboard instruments. Now out-of-print, selling for $600. Get yours new for $300. The Brothers Deiro and their Accordions by Henry Doktorski Finely detailed pictures and great historic information. $19.95 Accordion Service Manual. Oahu Publ.reprint $12.00 Useful to any accordion repair person. Intended for modern Italian accordions. The Twelve Bass Piano Accordion: A Manual for Construction and Repair. Harrington. Book only: $25.00; with accompanying video CD: $35.00 Accordion Repairs Made Easy. John Reuther. $26.00 An essential reference for all accordion repairers. Important Reading Matter Accordion Crimes by E. Annie Proulx $25.00 A marvelous description of the “life” and heritage of a green accordion. The Art of Bayan Playing by Friedrich Lips $26.00 Translated from the Russian. An essential reference to interpretation and playing any accordion-Family-Instrument. Walshe Essential guide to Accordion and Harmonica Events Festivals and Competitions Worldwide $40.00 America Sings: From Sea to Shining Sea: A Treasury of America’s Folklore and Folk Songs. $26.00 A tremendous collection of information and music for every reader. Harmonica Makers of Germany and Austria by Martin Haeffner An essential reference for logos, company symbols, and historic information. Useful for collectors of early accordion-family-instruments. $40.00 Cooking with Queen Ida $40.00 Rare and hard to find. Recordings: CDs A World of Accordions Museum: Extraordinary Profusion of Sound. DVD with booklet showing 19 instruments of the Travelling Museum in performance. Includes Busson “Romantic,” Stagi “English Concertina,” Brevetto Grosio “Flutterbox,” Frontalini “Cello,” Hohner “Basso,” Chemnitz “Royal,” Tula “Garmoschka,” Hohner “Pokerwork,” Polverini “Steirische Diatonic,” Hohner “Overture V Club Diatonic,” Mervar “Slovenian Diatonic,” Titano “Tiger,” Bugari “Chromatic,” Colombo “Musette,” Titano “Emperor,” Hohner “Gola,” more $20.00 Long Grass and Ladybugs: An Illustrated Musicbox $40.00 Original music composed and performed by “Chance.” Story and fables written by “Chance.” Cheryl Leah and Ed Willett with many cooperating performers including Helmi Harrington and Sue Spencer on accordions. Pietro Frosini: Original Recordings 1920-1935 Dizzy Accordion, La Mariposita, Jolly Caballero, Olive Blossoms, Love Smiles, Bel Viso, Hot Fingers, Silver Moon, Symphonic March, Swedish- Italian Mazurka, Cordinella, Serenata Primavera, Gauchos On Parade, Rag in D Minor, Bel Fliore. $16.00 Friedrich Lips: Also sprach Zarathustra $20.00 Sonate No.3 (Solotarjow), Three Pieces (Larin), Sonate No. 1 (Wolkow), Toccata (Derbenko), Also sprach Zarathustra (Berinsky). $20.00 Friedrich Lips: Symphonies of the Century $20.00 Solotarjow: (for bayan and symphony orchestra): Concert Symphony No. 1 (enlarged in 1972 from 1965 work): Allegro moderato-Adagio spirito/Pastorale- Alla cadenza-Allegro scherzoso. Concert Symphony No. 2 : Prologue - Variations-Metamorphoses-Epilogue. $20.00 Friedrich Lips: Wladislaw Solotarjow (1942-1975): Six Children’s Suites I: Minstrels at court-Mashenko’s sighs-Jester playing on a squeezebox-That queer thing from Duesseldorf-Toy soldiers’ march. II: Awakenng-A stroll- Melancholy ditty-Game-Prankish tom-cat-Doll’s waltz-Matryoschkas’ dance. III: Four movements. IV: The repercussions of the theater- Meditation-Bagatelle-Antique clock-Magic Box. VI: Winter morning-In the country-Bagpipes-Dusk-Taranushki. $20.00 Friedrich Lips: No Comment $20.00 Light Waves (Berinsky), Two Little Pieces for Organ (Schnittke), Five Compositions (Solotarjow, Concert Diptych (Shurbin, No Comment (Gagnidze), Prelude and Toccata (Derbenko), Preamble and Toccata (Precz), Children’s Suite No. 3, (Precz), Scherzo-Toccata (Londonov). Friedrich Lips: Dunkelrote Rose “Encore 2” $20.00 Na gore-to kalian (Schalajew), Barynja (Lokschin/Lips), Perpetuum Mobile-Pizzicato Polka-Tritsch Tratsch Polka (Strauss), Menuett (Boccherini), Three Preludes (Gershwin), Blues Rondo alla turca (Brubeck), Country Music (Tschernikow), Mantel Polka (Schnittke), Sakkijarven Polka (arr.Lips), Trembling Leaves (Norrback), Bumble Boogie (Fina/Molinari), Blues for Two (Rosenblatt), My Luck Tango (Rosenfeld/Desjatnikow), El sol sueno Tango (Peterburgsky/Desjatnikow), La Cumparsita (Rodriguez/Piazzolla), Dunkelrote Rose Tango (Sergejewa). Performed with ensemble. Friedrich Lips: Et Exspecto $20.00 Chaconne (Bach/Busoni), Prelude and Fugue in A Minor (Bach), Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (Bach), Ich ruf’ zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ (Bach), Monastery of Ferapont (Solotarjow), Sonata for Bayan in 5 movements (Gubaidulina). Friedrich Lips: Partita $20.00 Fantasie No. 1 (Mozart), Sonatas in C Minor, F Major, C Major (Scarlatti), Children’s Suite No. 2 “Souvenirs” (Repnikov), Partita (Solotarjow), Sonata No. 2 (Solotarjow). Friedrich Lips: Dieu Parmi Nous $20.00 Choral in A Minor (Franck), The Reeds, The Reapers (Couperin), Bird’s Chirping, The Hen (Rameau), The Cuckoo (Daquin), Meditation No. 9 “Dieu Parmi Nous” (Messiaen), Sonata No. 2 (Wolkow), Spanish Rhapsody (Solotarjow). Friedrich Lips: Apocalypse $20.00 Stichira for bayan and vc (Volkov), In Croce for bayan and vc (Gubaidulina/Lips), Souvenir (Cage/Lips), Symphony No. 3 “…and the sky is darkened” (Berinsky). Friedrich Lips: Schneefall bei Nacht $20.00 Three Pieces in “mauvais” Style (Berinsky), Like a Water Buffalo (Takahashi), From Dusk to Light (Denissow), Phantasy 84 (Ganzer), Chamber Suite (Solotarjow). Friedrich Lips: Russisch und Trepak $20.00 In the Village, Scherzo in C-sharp Minor, Serenade (Mussorgsky), Humoreske (Rachmaninov), Nocturne (Borodin), Musical Snuff-box (Liadow), Polka (Rebikow), Kreisel (Iljinski), Russisch und Trepak (Rubinstein), Three Russian Songs (Bogoslowski), Variations of “Oh you lovely little snowball bouquet” (Panizki), Two Russian Folksongs (Londonov), Fantasy on a Ukrainian Folksong (Podgorni), Watalinka, Russian Dance, A Path in Woods (Bisow), Russian Suite (Schenderjow), Russian Song from “The Mavre” (Stravinsky/Lips). Friedrich Lips: Miserere $20.00 Gothic Shuite (Boellmann), Miserere (Berinsky), Prelude in Memory of V. Solotarjov (Podgorny), Fantasy in Memory of Alfred Schnittke (Podgaits), Silenzio (Gubaidulina), Three Chorales (Bach). Performed with ensemble. Friedrich Lips: River of Love $20.00 Il dolce doloro (Berinsky), The River of Love (Rjabov), Dream Garden (Bronner), Russian Landscape in the Back (Ledenjov), Seaworld (Berinsky). With violin and violoncello. Friedrich Lips: Encore $20.00 The Cuckoo (Daquin), Traeumerei (Schumann), Moment Musicale (Schubert), The Loneny Wandered ( Grieg), Pizzicato Polka (Strauss), La Danza (Rossini/Derbenko), Aria di Figaro (Rossini/Derbenko), La cachila (Arolos), Contrabajeando (Piazzolla), Nonino (Piazzolla), Sentido unico (Piazzolla), La Comparsa (Lecuona), Malaguena (Lecona), Russian Dance (Schenderjow), Toccata (Katchaturian), Little Suite (Derbenko). Friedrich Lips: De Profundis $20.00 Cordoba, Asturias (Albeniz), Malaguena (Lecuona), Spansich Dance No. 5 (Granados), Dance of the white Indian (Villa-Lobos), Sentido unico (Piazzolla), Basso ostinato, Humoreske, In the style of Albeniz, Maiden dance, Quadrille (Schedrin), De Profundis (Gubaidulina). Viatcheslav Semyonov $20.00 Sonata No. 1, Lithuanian Rhapsody, Estonian Rhapsody, Ukrainian Rhapsody, Belorussian Rhapsody, Belolitsa-Krouglolitsa improvisations, Don–river Rhapsody No. 2, Red Guelder Rose. Semyonov Plays His Transcriptions $18.00 Chaconne (Bach), Four Renaissance Pieces , Sonata in E-flat Major (Scarlatti), Sonata in C Major (Scarlatti), Pastorale (Scarlatti/Tauzig), La Campanella (Paganini/Liszt), Pastorale in E Major (Franck), Dieu Parmi Nous (Messiaen). White Rabbit: The Tango Project Modernstuecke (Schimmel), Contessa (Telson), Tango di Tango (Rodriguez), My Young Russian, Mother Turns Seventy (Nurock), Synthetic Dances (Sahl), Belgian Tango (Anderson), One Night ( Soldier), The Bee Stomp (Johnson), White Rabbit (Slick). Rare and Hard to Find. $30.00 Akkordeon Symphonieorchester [The great Hohner Orchestra] Perpetuum Mobile (Strauss/Vogt), Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 (Liszt/Wuerthner), La Campanella (Wuerthner), Annen Polka