catalog vromano03eT:
Title:
Encore- Album |
|
Name (Click for Sound Sample) |
Composer |
Time |
Buy/Price |
1. |
Brioso |
L. Stocchi
|
4:50 |
€0,80 |
2. |
Vecchi Ricordi |
L. Stocchi
|
3:42 |
€0,80 |
3. |
L'Indiavolata (Armonica indiavolata)
|
G. Stok
|
2:20 |
€0,80 |
4. |
L'Italiano a Parigi
|
G. Stok
|
3:07 |
€0,80 |
5. |
La Doccia
|
L. Stocchi
|
2:42 |
€0,80 |
6. |
Penombra
|
G. Stok |
3:20 |
€0,80 |
7. |
II Silenzio Fuori Ordinanza
|
G. Stok
B. Mussini |
3:42 |
€0,80 |
8. |
Tango Gagliardo
|
G. Stok
N. Monica |
2:56 |
€0,80 |
9. |
Cuore Vagabondo
|
G. Stok |
3:24 |
€0,80 |
10. |
Doges City
|
G. Stok
|
3:32 |
€0,80 |
11. |
Signora Fisarmonica
|
G. Stok
B. Mussini |
3:30 |
€0,80 |
12. |
Elettrico |
L. Stocchi |
3:17 |
€0,80 |
catalog vromano03:
Title:
Viazzani takes Stok |
|
Name (Click for Sound Sample) |
Composer |
Time |
mp3 sound sample file size |
1. |
Brioso |
L. Stocchi |
4:50 |
1.14mb |
2. |
Vecchi Ricordi |
L. Stocchi |
3:42 |
1.14mb |
3. |
L'Indiavolata (Armonica indiavolata) |
G. Stok |
2:20 |
1.14mb |
4. |
L'Italiano a Parigi |
G. Stok |
3:07 |
1.14mb |
5. |
La Doccia |
L. Stocchi |
2:42 |
1.14mb |
6. |
Penombra |
G. Stok |
3:20 |
1.14mb |
7. |
II Silenzio Fuori Ordinanza |
G. Stok
B. Mussini |
3:42 |
1.14mb |
8. |
Tango Gagliardo |
G. Stok
N. Monica |
2:56 |
1.14mb |
9. |
Cuore Vagabondo |
G. Stok |
3:24 |
1.14mb |
10. |
Doges City |
G. Stok |
3:32 |
1.14mb |
11. |
Signora Fisarmonica |
G. Stok
B. Mussini |
3:30 |
1.14mb |
12. |
Elettrico |
L. Stocchi |
3:17 |
1.14mb |
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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