Release Date: 19 June 2020
Label: Etcetera
Packaging Type: Box Set
No of Units: 10
Barcode: 8711801016764
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
Description
| Andre De Groote and the music of Beethoven |
It was a most moving experience for me to hear Andre De Groote perform Beethoven’s music. I first came into contact with him thanks to the Brussels Beethoven collector Jean van der Spek, as I had arranged a special exhibition of van der Spek’s collection in Beethoven’s birthplace, the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, and he had suggested that this should be followed by a Beethoven sonata cycle by a leading Belgian Beethoven interpreter.
I gladly complied with this request, without knowing exactly where this would lead. I knew that Andre De Groote was an excellent pianist with a very broad repertoire, but I had no idea what was to come from this.
Andre De Groote has thus rendered a lasting service to the Beethoven-Haus and to its audiences. I am deeply pleased that the CD recordings made some years later are being reissued, and not simply out of gratitude for the impression
that these concerts left at that time. I hope that they will be heard by many attentive listeners, and that these interpretations, imbued as they are with deep seriousness, great musical sovereignty and total service to the music,
will have an effect that goes far beyond purely musical considerations."
Dr. Michael Ladenburger
Chief of the museum and curator of the collection of the Beethoven-Haus Bonn (retired)
Tracklisting
Yarno Missiaen
Bruno Monteiro, Joao Paulo Santos
Jiska Lambrecht (violin), Marco Sanna (piano)
Werner Van Mechelen, Sylvie Decramer
Keigo Mukawa
Gauguin Ensemble
Michel Strauss, Jean Claude Vanden Eynden
Elena Marangou, Yorgos Ziavras
Arie van Beek, Jose Ramon Encinar, Reinbert de Leeuw…
