The Early Piano Variations, The First Piano Sonatas by Ronald Brautigam

Ludwig van Beethoven

Ronald Brautigam

The Early Piano Variations, The First Piano Sonatas

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Globe
UPC: 8711525700208
Catnr: GLO 7002
Release date: 19 August 2002
Buy

2 CD ✓ in stock	€ 19.95	Buy

Label
Globe

UPC
8711525700208

Catalogue number
GLO 7002

Release date
19 August 2002

Album

Artist(s)

Composer(s)

About the album

A double album completely devoted to piano works of the young Beethoven performed on a beautiful copy of an authentic piano from the composer's time. These Variation works as well the first Piano Sonatas are the pieces with which Beethoven established his reputation in Vienna as pianist and composer and they still go on delighting music lovers all over the world.

Een onovertrefbare interpretatie van vroege sonates en variaties van Beethoven
Dit dubbelalbum is volledig toegewijd aan de pianowerken van de jonge Ludwig van Beethoven, uitgevoerd op een prachtige kopie van een authentieke piano uit de tijd van de componist. De oorspronkelijke losse albums werden voor het eerst uitgegeven in 1993, en zijn sindsdien altijd zeer succesvol geweest. Ze hebben sindsdien nauwelijks tot geen concurrentie van andere albums gekregen, en het staat vast dat er geen betere interpretaties zijn dan deze van Ronald Brautigam.

De vroege Variaties en Pianosonates zijn de werken waarmee de jonge Beethoven zijn reputatie als pianist en componist in Wenen vastlegde. Muziekliefhebbers over de hele wereld zullen er vandaag de dag nog steeds van genieten!

Artist(s)

Ronald Brautigam (piano)

Ronald Brautigam has deservedly earned a reputation as one of Holland’s most respected musicians, remarkable not only for his virtuosity and musicality but also for the  eclectic nature of his musical interests. He has received numerous awards including the Dutch Music Prize and a 2010 MIDEM Classical Award for best concerto recording for his CD  of Beethoven Piano Concertos with the Norrköpoing Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Parrott.
A student of the legendary Rudolf Serkin, Ronald Brautigam performs regularly with leading orchestras including the Royal Concertgebouw, London Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. He has performed alongside a number of distinguished conductors including Riccardo Chailly, Charles Dutoit, Bernard Haitink, Frans Brüggen, Christopher Hogwood, Marek Janowski, Sir Roger Norrington, Marin Alsop, Ivor Bolton, Andrew Parrott, Ton Koopman, Ivan Fisher and Sir Mark Elder. Besides his performances on modern instruments Ronald Brautigam has established himself as a leading exponent of the fortepiano, working with orchestras such as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Tafelmusik, 18th-Century Orchestra, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, the Hanover band, Concerto Copenhagen and l’Orchestre des Champs-Elysées. Brautigam’s recordings have earned a number of awards including two Edison Awards, a Diapason d’Or de l’année, a MIDEM Classical Award for best solopiano recording (2004) and in 2010 he won the MIDEM Classical Award for best concerto recording. Since September 2011 Ronald Brautigam is a Professor at the Musik-Hochschule in Basel.

less

Composer(s)

Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. His best-known compositions include nine symphonies, five piano concertos, one violin concerto, 32 piano sonatas, 16 string quartets, his great Mass the Missa solemnis, and one opera, Fidelio. Together with Mozart and Haydn, he was part of the First Viennese School. Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of the Holy Roman Empire, Beethoven displayed his musical talents at an early age and was taught by his father Johann van Beethoven and by composer and conductor Christian Gottlob Neefe. At the age of 21 he moved to Vienna, where he began studying composition with Joseph Haydn, and gained a reputation as a virtuoso pianist. He lived in Vienna until his death. By his late 20s his hearing began to deteriorate, and by the last decade of his life he was almost totally deaf. In 1811 he gave up conducting and performing in public but continued to compose; many of his most admired works come from these last 15 years of his life.

less