Ronald Brautigam Beethoven
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Building a Library, February 2023, Recommended Recording - 'Appassionata'
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Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 5 & Choral Fantasia
Ronald Brautigam (piano), Hannah Holgersson (soprano), Marie Olhans (mezzo-soprano), Maria Sanner (alto), Mikael Stenbaek (tenor), Gunnar Birgersson (baritone) & Ove Pettersson (bass)
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, with Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, Andrew Parrott
The opening of the concerto is excellent: Parrott gets appropriately spacious playing from the orchestra, while the bell-like tone of Brautigam's instrument - a Steinway Model D - helps to prevent... —
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[Brautigam's] tempos in the outer movements are tremendously fast, and for the intervening episodes of the Waldstein's ronda finale, with their dizzying cascades of semiquaver triplets, he accelerates... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2008, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, February 2023, Recommended Recording - 'Appassionata'
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There are few early-instrument practitioners who can match Brautigam's music insight and technical prowess...there are no holds barred in his impressively passionate account of Op. 111's opening... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th June 2010
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Building a Library, July 2013, First Choice
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Beethoven - Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3
Ronald Brautigam (piano)
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Parrott
…the playing is refreshingly alert throughout, with tempos noticeably on the fast side. —
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Ronald Brautigam's warm-toned piano… serves him particularly well in the lyrical concluding rondo of the Sonata Op. 7, with the figuration of its stormy central episode returning in a mollified... —
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Beethoven - Complete Works for Solo Piano Volume 2
(Early Vienna Sonatas)
Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)
The last two works of the triptych… are virtuoso pieces par excellence, and the opening Allegro of No. 3 is actually more akin to a concerto movement. Brautigam plays it in appropriately orchestral... —
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Beethoven - Piano Concertos WoO4 & No. 2
Ronald Brautigam (piano)
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Parrott
Beethoven's early E flat Piano Concerto, WoO4, ought to be better known. The piano-writing suggests the alliance of virtuoso execution with an already distinctive musical voice. In later life,... —
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They are virtuoso works, and Ronald Brautigam, who tends to favour quick tempos, plays them in genuine virtuoso style, but without ever failing to bring out the music's more expressive moments...A... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2012, Editor's Choice
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Brautigam's flexible yet well-proportioned tempo fluctuations enliven the C major Rondo, Op. 51 No. 1...The C major Polonaise teems with lightness, sparkle and pointed filigree in Brautigam's... —
