| | Czardas Duo (Matthew Forbes - cello; Ian Watson accordion) The Arts Café, London . 28 March 2001 (AF) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | What springs to mind at the mention of accordion-playing may not stretch far beyond Stella Artois adverts in oldest France, but across Europe and increasingly in the UK, the concert accordion (bayan) is attracting serious coverage and serious repertoire (see SandH's reports from Rotterdam and Geneva - Ed.). |
 | | Both graduates of the Royal Academy of Music (where there is an active accordion department) the Czardas Duo arrange their repertoire themselves - the results make a refreshing change, even where the repertoire is better known. |
 | | Monti's Czardas is clearly a party-piece: this Hungarian drinking-song made an ideal last order for the evening. |
| www.musicweb-international.com /SandH/2001/Mar01/czardas.htm (303 words) |