Browse: Ronald Brautigam Beethoven (series)
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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... — More…
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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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Building a Library, February 2023, Recommended Recording - 'Appassionata'
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…Brautigam… 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... — More…
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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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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... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2012, Editor's Choice
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… a fine recital, and the most impressive instalment so far in Brautigam's Beethoven cycle. The warm-sounding reproduction Graf piano from around 1819 has been very well recorded. — More…
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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. — More…
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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... — More…
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One advantage of a period instrument is the cleanness of its bass register - a particular boon in the Tempest Sonata… Brautigam's performances are well up to the standard of his previous releases,... — More…
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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... — More…
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…another fine instalment in Brautigam's continuing Beethoven cycle, with all the music's drama and urgency vividly captured, and a warmly expressive approach to the slow movements without a hint... — More…
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