Folk Flow
Accordion solo (2023)
The new CD Folk Flow by Viviane Chassot with works by Didier Squiban, Yann Tiersen, Yiruma, Eric Satie, Enrique Granados, Ludovico Einaudi and many more.
"This time I am broadening the strictly "classical" framework and combining classical with jazz and free improvisation. I juxtapose the beauty of simple traditional folk music from Brittany with a waltz by F. Chopin or the Gnossiennes by E. Satie. Unexpected juxtapositions, connections and transitions of different composers and eras become one."
In Germany and Austria, the album will be available in stores and online from 3 June, in the rest of the world usually two months later. Digital release of the complete album on 21 July; numerous singles are already available digitally beforehand:
– Musik Hug, Zurich
– Rena Kaufmann, Zurich
– Tres Classic, Geneva
or online at:
""You have to hear Viviane Chassot to experience how diverse an accordion can sound: distant vocals, softly intoned woodwinds, calm basses, but also the drama of powerful chords - in the hands of the Zurich-born virtuoso, the instrument becomes almost sensual and unfolds a huge spectrum....""
"The accordion as a great bracket, as if the works had always belonged together. The Swiss pulls out all the stops of her instrument and opens up new dimensions."
"The arrangements of works by classical composers, all played with phenomenal technical mastery of the instrument, produce an impressive blend of meditative and lightly dance-like music. The program ends with a very beautiful interpretation of Jean-Paul-Egide Martini’s Plaisir d’amour."
"Beguilingly beautiful". This is the conclusion of Stefan Pieper in his review of Viviane Chassot's new album on Klassik Heute. "On her current CD "Folk Flow", she now unites diverse traditional and composed, sometimes even improvised music into a lyrical overall structure that is irresistible in the best sense."
"The Swiss accordionist Viviane Chassot penetrates the depths of the soul with her instrument. Such praise right at the beginning of a review means something - but it is definitely justified..."
"Admittedly – too much accordion at a stretch is hard for me to hear. But when Viviane Chassot takes her instrument in her hands, it's different: apart, together, and apart again - her fingers caress 200 buttons, she reaches out with the bellows and opens up new dimensions", finds Adelheid Kleine, "her accordion ignites an unbelievable pull" ...
– Adelheid Kleine, CD-Tipp auf Hr2
"...Full of tenderness, sensitivity and wistful pensiveness."
The arrangements of works by classical composers, all played with phenomenal technical mastery of the instrument, produce an impressive blend of meditative and lightly dance-like music."– Pizzicato