Ksenija Sidorova (accordion), Thomas Gould (violin), BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Clark Rundell: Fairy Tales

Someone objecting to a new work once explained to me that their problem was not about it being "nasty modern" but rather "silly modern". They might have the same problem with some of the pieces on Ksenija Sidorova's new CD: Vaclav Trojan's Fairy Tales Concerto, Artem Vassiliev's Who's the Puppet? and Petr Londonov's Scherzo-Toccata are all clear candidates. Sidorova is a nimble accordionist, and gets some nice, shivery effects in aRachmaninov-based arrangement of the Scherzo from Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream. But you probably need to be a seriously dedicated accordion-lover for her versions of Grieg's Holberg Suite and Moszkowski's Caprice espagnol. url.ie/6l38