Beethoven - Complete Works for Solo Piano Volume 8
Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th June 2010
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Building a Library, July 2013, First Choice
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...
Beethoven - Complete Works for Solo Piano Volume 8
Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th June 2010
-
Building a Library, July 2013, First Choice
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...
About
With this disc, Ronald Brautigam has reached the last of the 32, completing a sonata cycle which has made a great impression on all who have been following it. A review in The Times stated: ‘Beethoven the revolutionary comes closer than ever in Brautigam's fiery interpretations.'
Brautigam has chosen to record these seminal works on fortepiano, and throughout the series uses two different instruments mirroring the rapid development of the piano during the three decades that saw the birth of these sonatas.
Contents and tracklist
Work length18:48
- Ronald Brautigam
- Recorded: September 2008
- Recording Venue: Kobe Shoin Women's University Chapel, Japan
I. Etwas lebhaft und mit der innigsten Empfindung. Allegretto, ma non troppo
Track length3:36
II. Lebhaft. Marschmäßig. Vivace alla marcia
Track length5:32
III. Langsam und sehnsuchtsvoll. Adagio, ma non troppo, con affetto
Track length2:39
IV. Geschwind, doch nicht zu sehr, und mit Entschlossenheit. Allegro
Track length7:01
Work length16:31
- Ronald Brautigam
- Recorded: September 2008
- Recording Venue: Kobe Shoin Women's University Chapel, Japan
I. Vivace ma non troppo
Track length3:13
II. Prestissimo
Track length2:14
III. Gesangvoll, mit innigster Empfindung. Andante molto cantabile ed espressivo
Track length11:04
Work length18:20
- Ronald Brautigam
- Recorded: September 2008
- Recording Venue: Kobe Shoin Women's University Chapel, Japan
I. Moderato cantabile molto espressivo
Track length5:49
II. Scherzo. Allegro molto
Track length2:09
III. Adagio, ma non troppo - Fuga. Allegro, ma non troppo
Track length10:22
Work length23:25
- Ronald Brautigam
- Recorded: September 2008
- Recording Venue: Kobe Shoin Women's University Chapel, Japan
I. Maestoso - Allegro con brio ed appassionato
Track length8:20
II. Arietta. Adagio molto semplice e cantabile
Track length15:05
Spotlight on this release
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Ronald Brautigam's Beethoven
28th Jun 2010
The Dutch fortepianist completes his outstanding cycle of the complete sonatas on BIS, with revelatory accounts of Opp. 101 and 109-111.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week28th June 2010
September 2010
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 Allegro
October 2010
The clarity that Brautigam achieves serves to offset the briskness of the tempos and the gain lies in the clear structural cohesion, with momentum clearly directed...This lack of indulgence is a hallmark of Brautigam's Beethoven...and [he] always mantains direction...This survey provides some of the finest Beethoven playing I have ever heard.
28th June 2010
In Brautigam’s hands the music sounds lyrical and perfectly phrased without in any way sounding mannered. Because the fortepiano doesn’t have the same sustaining power as a modern piano Brautigam’s tempos for the slower movements are often slightly faster than you might be used to. But they never sound rushed, and always feel natural, while giving him the opportunity for a little ebb and flow without danger of losing the musical line.
