A new CD, “Three British Accordion Concertos” will be released by Toccata Classics on April 3rd, 2026 and feature compositions performed by Owen Murray with the BBC Concert Orchestra under the direction of Sir James MacMillan.

“These concertos showcase the accordion’s unique range of color, expression, and its ability to weave through orchestral textures. The release is a testament to the instrument’s growing importance in classical music and its potential for new works.”

Owen Murray recorded the concertos with the BBC orchestra two years ago, which are dedicated to his late wife Inger.

“The development of an original classical repertoire for the accordion began with Mogens Ellegaard in his native Denmark and his student, the Scot Owen Murray, in the UK. In 1976 Ellegaard gave the first broadcast performance of Gordon Jacob’s pastoral, elegant concerto, which treats the accordion almost as a chamber organ. A generation and more later, two concertos written for Owen Murray open out the possibilities of the accordion much more adventurously, exploiting it’s extraordinary range of colour, it’s striking range of expression and it’s mercurial ability to weave through orchestral textures.”