Romano Viazzani - Viazzani Take Stok CD

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Tracks:

Brioso	L. Stocchi	4:50
Vecchi Ricordi	L. Stocchi	3:42
L'Indiavolata (Armonica indiavolata)	G. Stok	2:20
L'Italiano a Parigi	G. Stok	3:07
La Doccia	L. Stocchi	2:42
Penombra	G. Stok	3:20
II Silenzio Fuori Ordinanza	G. Stok B. Mussini	3:42
Tango Gagliardo	G. Stok N. Monica	2:56
Cuore Vagabondo	G. Stok	3:24
Doges City	G. Stok	3:32
Signora Fisarmonica	G. Stok B. Mussini	3:30
Elettrico	L. Stocchi	3:17
	Total Time	37.82

Sound Samples:

Name	Time	mp3 file size
Brioso	20s	314kb
Vecchi Ricordi	20s	314kb
L'Indiavolata (Armonica indiavolata)	20s	314kb
L'Italiano a Parigi	20s	314kb
La Doccia	20s	313kb
Penombra	20s	316kb
II Silenzio Fuori Ordinanza	20s	314kb
Tango Gagliardo	20s	392kb
Cuore Vagabondo	20s	314kb
Doges City	20s	313kb
Signora Fisarmonica	20s	314kb
Elettrico	20s	314kb

Description:

As a child I remember feeling a sense of occasion when my father played his treasured collection of vinyl and bakelite records on our old valve portadyne radiogram. It was usually during Christmas or some other celebration or when the television broke down which in the 1960s and 70s was quite often! Among his record collection were a number of 45rpm singles and EPs adn one LP that featured an accordionist with a distictive sound, an accordionist that sounded more exciting, miore polished and whose own compositions sounded more memorable than the rest. That accordionist was Gigi Stok.

Occasionally my father would take out his accordion and play one or tow of his favourite Gigi Stok pieces too so with this amount of exposure to the accordion it was inevitable that after having taken piano lessons from the age of seven the time would come when I would want to play the accordion too. I remember feeling a real sense of achievement when I managed to get my young fingers around one of his pieces. I also remember feeling a sense of awe to the point where I was almost speechless when I first met him in 1982.

When I led L'Orchestra Rara and The High Society Dance Orchestra we would play quite a number of his compositions at Italian weddings and balls and more recently at the London Accordion festival in 2001 I was pleased to arrange a medley entitled Gigi Stok Fantasia to be played by Corrado Medioli, Mauro Carra and Myself backed by the BBC Concert Orchestra as a prelude to the presentation of the festival's Life Achievement Award which Medioli accepted on his behalf because Stok was to ill to attend.

Sadly Gigi Stok passed away in February 2003. He was buried on the 2nd of March in the village f his birth, Bianconese in the province of Parma where he began his career accompanying his father.

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