Martynas Levickis

Following a fatal boating accident, in which one of his students dies, Gintaras, a champion yachtsman, swears off the sea, quits sailing and withdraws into himself.

For him, the accordion is like a box in which you can get an entire orchestra in order to always have it on your own. Dynamic portrait of the gifted and charismatic accordionist Martynas Levickis.

With Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, accordionist Martynas Levickis reveals the thousand and one facets of an instrument rarely given pride of place in concert halls. The NDR Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Delyana Lazarova are the perfect partners in this programme, which also includes a contemporary work by Caroline Shaw and Stravinsky's Firebird. Chapters: - Martynas Levickis - Ouverture festive pour accordéon - Maurice Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin - George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue, arrangement pour accordéon et orchestre - Caroline Shaw - Entr’acte pour cordes - Igor Stravinsky - L’Oiseau de feu, seconde suite pour orchestre