{"id":330,"date":"2026-01-11T04:20:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T04:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/2026\/01\/11\/matt-classical-accordian\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T04:20:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T04:20:36","slug":"matt-classical-accordian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/2026\/01\/11\/matt-classical-accordian\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt: Classical Accordian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So my new obsession is a Ukrainian-born musician, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrustevich.com\/en\/\">Alexander Hrustevich<\/a>, who plays a type of chromatic Russian accordion <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bayan_(accordion)\">called a Bayan<\/a>. He plays incredible transcriptions of classical pieces, replicating the parts of an entire orchestra with just two hands. If you\u2019re familiar with Vivaldi\u2019s Four Seasons, you know the Presto for Summer is one of the most challenging parts. Listen to this, it\u2019s just a bit under three minutes.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9SE222v1eyM\">Here\u2019s the 14 minute version<\/a> which is beautiful to hear the dynamic range that\u2019s possible. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve always loved the sound of a big pipe organ and the resonance and feel of the bayan. It is really quite remarkable, and it\u2019s been very enjoyable having a playlist of Alexander\u2019s music in the background as I work. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jDXkixRjYOg\">Bach-Fantasia and Fugue in G minor BWV 542 is also quite good<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My 42<sup>nd<\/sup> birthday is tomorrow! Working on a post for y\u2019all.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my new obsession is a Ukrainian-born musician, Alexander Hrustevich, who plays a type of chromatic Russian accordion called a Bayan. He plays incredible transcriptions of classical pieces, replicating the parts of an entire orchestra with just two hands. If you\u2019re familiar with Vivaldi\u2019s Four Seasons, you know the Presto for Summer is one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}