Concertos for Bandoneon & Accordeon

This album was recorded in partnership with Belgian classical radio station Klara. Gwen Cresens teams up with The Brussels Philharmonic and Diego Matheuz for a

coupling of Piazzolla's Aconcagua (concierto para bandoneon) and Richard Galliano's Opale concerto (concerto pour accordéon soliste). Also on the album are

compositions by Enrique Granados, Isaac Albeniz and Gwen Cresens and an arrangement of Piazzolla's famous Oblivion by Gwen Cresens. Gwen Cresens is a Belgian accordionist, bandoneon player, arranger and composer. He collaborated with both classical artists such as Luciano Pavarotti, Brussels Philharmonic,

Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Les Ballets C de la B and Zefiro Torna, singers such as Arno, Adamo and Ute Lemper, and also jazz musicians like Brussels Jazz Orchestra and the Metropole Orkest. Conductor Diego Matheuz is a graduate of the renowned Venezuelan Sistema, and is already widely acknowledged as one of the most promising talents from the Americas. The Brussels Philharmonic combine 21st century music with the great classics in their programmes, thereby opening up a dialogue between the repertoire of the past and that of the future.