Pure Live V Jeroen de Groot & Bernd Brackman

• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827): Sonate for piano-violin:
• 1 Beethoven: Sonate for piano-violin: I. Allegro 10:56
• 2 Beethoven: Sonate for piano-violin: II. Adagio molto espressivo 06:18
• 3 Beethoven: Sonate for piano-violin: III Scherzo 01:22
• 4 Beethoven: Sonate for piano-violin: IV Rondo 07:49
• César Franck (1822 - 1890): Sonate for piano and violin in A:
• 5 Franck: Sonate for piano and violin in A: I Allegretto ben moderato 06:42
• 6 Franck: Sonate for piano and violin in A: II Allegro 08:32
• 7 Franck: Sonate for piano and violin in A: III Recitativo - Fantasia 07:51
• 8 Franck: Sonate for piano and violin in A: IV Allegretto poco mosso 07:01
• Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921): Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso:
• 9 Saint-Saëns: Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso: Andante Malinconico 01:33
• 10 Saint-Saëns: Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso: Allegro ma non troppo 06:50
• 11 Saint-Saëns: Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso: Più Allegro 01:06
• Total Runtime 01:06:00

Info for Pure Live V

Pure Live V is a recording to be heard of a concert, performed November 2024 in the Zeeuwse Concertzaal in Middelburg.

Violinist Jeroen de Groot and pianist Bernd Brackman played Beethoven's Frühlingssonate, Franck's violin sonata and Saint-Saéns' “Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso.

Violinist Jeroen de Groot studied with three gifted violin pedagogues Herman Krebbers, Sandor Vegh and Ivry Gitlis. He has won many national and international prizes at various competitions. Jeroen regularly links keywords to his own way of playing the violin such as surprise, spontaneity, warmth and communication.

Pianist Bernd Brackman received his first piano lessons from his mother Frieda Brackman-Hoogerwerf. He studied with Jaap Spaanderman and Jan Wijn at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. He also took master classes with pianists such as Vlado Perlemutter, Naum Grubert and Leon Fleischer.

Both musicians go for the music and thus also accept any small imperfections. A recording studio, where every imperfection is corrected, is soulless to them, often does not do full justice to the qualities of the musicians and offers the performers too few opportunities to give their own interpretation of the music. The music to be heard on this album may justifiably bear the title "Pure Live.”

Certainly it draws from the so-called classical favorites but in a different way than you usually hear on sound carriers!

Jeroen de Groot, violin
Bernd Brackman, piano

Jeroen de Groot
The Netherlands 1961, studied at Sweelinck Conservatory Amsterdam with Herman Krebbers from the age of 11. After winning the prestigious Oscar Back competition in 1985 he continued his studies with Sandor Vegh in Salzburg and Ivry Gitlis in Paris. During this period he was prizewinner at competitions in Munich, Scheveningen, Concertgebouw and Bordeaux.

The past years he has been working on the launch of several new CD's eg the Bach solo Sonates and Partitas. The interpretation of this ‘Bible’ for the violin is always on his mind. In concerts in which he plays three up to six of the sonates his fresh approach to this masterpiece is renowned.

Movement, spontaneity, warmth and communication are the keywords for this artist. Since november 2016 Jeroen is the ambassador of the foundation 'Connect by Music'.

Bernd Brackman
Since the 1980s, Bernd Brackman (1960) has made a name for himself with his highly personal and experienced interpretations of the great piano repertoire. He received his training from his mother Frieda Brackman-Hoogerwerf, Jaap Spaanderman and from Jan Wijn, with whom he graduated from the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam in 1985. He perfected his knowledge with masters such as Vlado Perlemuter, Tamás Vásáry, György Sándor, Peter Feuchtwanger, Naum Grubert, Sergey Dorensky and Leon Fleisher. He has won many prizes, including the prestigious Elisabeth Evertsprijs (1984), the Jacques Vonk Concours in Amsterdam (1985) and, in 1997, an Edison for the CD of Dutch Music he made with flutist Jacques Zoon. As a soloist and chamber music player, Bernd Brackman performs frequently at home and abroad. In Johannesburg, for example, he played Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto with the National Orchestra of South Africa. His extensive solo repertoire ranges from Bach to Cage, with an emphasis on Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Skrjabin, Ravel and Messiaen.

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