Compositions such as these unquestionably go a long way in re-defining the accordion, in liberating it from its relatively short, but heavily cliché-ridden history. In a way, the accordion's role may be compared with that of the saxophone:both children of the industrialisation of musical instrument, both aesthetically defined by certain popular idioms, both re-discovered and re-defined by the composers of New Music. These (and other) new works for accordion have enriched the sound world of the accordion immensely, and I hope that you will share my sense of discovery. — Peter Niklas Wilson