Discoveries: Pascal Contet - a French accordion player

Pascal Contet - a French accordion player:
www.pascalcontet.com
Busy with contemporary music. Performing with varies instruments, artists. I like combination with Chinese Sheng:




Nice performance of Nigun by Bloch (originally for violin and piano):

(Here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigun - you can read what "nigun" means)
You can compare performance of this piece by listening to fantastic violin playing by Leonid Kogan:

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