Piano recital with Beethoven & Brahms

Festival van Vlaanderen in Erpe-Mere In in this program, the young, virtuoso Belgian pianist Alexander Declercq puts the work of two other keyboard lions on the music stand. Beethoven and Brahms form two imposing milestones in the history of the piano repertoire. Van Beethoven two sonatas sound: the early Sonata no. 4 dates from 1796 and is one of his longest. He published the work independently and not as part of a set of multiple sonatas, as was customary. Two years later, he wrote Sonata no. 8 as the third and final one of a bundle of three. It went down in history as the ‘Pathétique’ and heralds a new era. Here, Beethoven seems to have found his own voice. Between the two sonatas, Alexander plays the six soulful keyboard pieces that Brahms, almost a hundred years later, dedicated to his close friend Clara Schumann. It is the last music the old master wrote for piano. The great talent of Alexander Declercq has been awarded multiple times at national and international competitions, which opened the door to prestigious halls in and outside Europe.