Owen Murray, BBC Concert Orchestra, James MacMillan - Three British Accordion Concertos (2026) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Concerto for Chromatic Accordion, Percussion & String Orchestra: I. Adagio - Allegretto
02. Concerto for Chromatic Accordion, Percussion & String Orchestra: II. Intermezzo. Quasi menuetto
03. Concerto for Chromatic Accordion, Percussion & String Orchestra: III. Largo
04. Concerto for Chromatic Accordion, String Orchestra & Percussion: IV. Allegro moderato
05. Accordion Concerto: I. Moderato marcato
06. Accordion Concerto: II. Andante cantabile
07. Accordion Concerto: III. Vivo con bravura
08. Northern Lights: I. Very Spacious
09. Northern Lights: II. Very Spacious
10. Northern Lights: III. Musing

The development of an original classical repertoire for the accordion began with Mogens Ellegaard in his native Denmark and his student, the Scot Owen Murray, in the UK. In 1976 Ellegaard gave the first broadcast performance of Gordon Jacob’s pastoral, elegant concerto, which treats the accordion almost as a chamber organ. A generation and more later, two concertos written for Owen Murray open out the possibilities of the accordion much more adventurously, exploiting its extraordinary range of colour, its striking range of expression and its mercurial ability to weave through orchestral textures.

Owen Murray, accordion
BBC Concert Orchestra
Sir James MacMillan, conductor