This album is a tour de force of a duo that defies description. Each musician brings their own rich experience in fields as diverse as early music, new music, tango, and mainstream classical chamber music, and in their partnership, it is clear that they have given themselves and each other permission to do anything. The result is a perfect balance of wildness, intelligence, and depth. Two of the works on this album are world premieres, written specially for the duo. The others are the duo’s own arrangements of a 500-year span of repertoire, making use of the full range of colours and textures in this unusual combination of instruments.

Renée Bekkers is a devoted advocate of the classical accordion and an active chamber musician, appearing in diverse instrumental combinations. She also produces her own music performances and concerts with the accordion duo TOEAC and music theatre collective Kofferbak Collectief.

Jacobien Rozemond is a member of the Hermitage Quartet and leader of the second violins in Amsterdam Sinfonietta. She has made highly acclaimed CD recordings with the Amsterdam Bridge Ensemble, the Leo Smit Ensemble and Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, and regularly appears in the double role of solo violinist and singer.

As Duo Rozemond & Bekkers, they have performed at the Festival van Vlaanderen, the Zoom! Chamber Music Festival and Radio NPO Klassiek, with programmes that balance folklore, classical tradition and innovation.

Catalogue No: DXL1212
Title: I’m Nobody! Who Are You? A dialogue across time
Artists: Duo Rozemond & Bekkers
Renée Bekkers, accordion
Jacobien Rozemond, violin and voice
Barcode: 0666283121223
Playing Time: 48:13
UK Release: 20th November 2026

Track list

DARIO CASTELLO (1602-1631)

1. Sonata seconda a sopran solo for violin and continuo 6:11

TARQUINIO MERULA (1594/1595-1665)

2. Ciaconna 5:08

BENJAMIN DE MURASHKIN (b. 1981)

I’m Nobody! Who are you? (2022)

based on poems by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

3. I’m Nobody! Who are you? 4:40

4. Interlude 3:10

5. I had a daily Bliss 3:39

6. Prelude 2:17

7. How happy is the little Stone 2:28

ERNEST BLOCH (1880-1959)

8. Prayer, From Jewish Life B. 54, No. 1 4:29

MATTHIAS KADAR (b. 1977)

9. De pas à pas (2024) 4:48

ALBERT VAN VEENENDAAL (b. 1956)

10. Pobla de Segur (1982) 2:05

JOSQUIN DES PREZ (1450-1521)

11. Mille regretz 1:44

JACOB VAN EYCK (1589/1590-1657)

12. Stil, stil een reys 3:27

ASTOR PIAZZOLLA (1921-1992)

13. Escualo 4:09

All transcriptions are made by Duo Rozemond & Bekkers.