RONALD BRAUTIGAM
Ronald Brautigam studied in Amsterdam, London and with Rudolf Serkin in the USA. Since then he has enjoyed a busy international career, performing with leading orchestras under distinguished conductors such as Riccardo Chailly, Charles Dutoit, Bernard Haitink, Frans Brüggen and Iván Fischer. Besides his performances on modern instruments Ronald Brautigam has developed a great passion for the fortepiano, appearing with leading period bands around the world. In 1995 Ronald Brautigam began his association with BIS, and among the more than 50 titles released so far are Mendelssohn’s piano concertos and a cycle of Beethoven’s piano concertos and, on the fortepiano, the complete piano works of Mozart and Haydn. His ongoing series of Beethoven’s solo piano music, also on the fortepiano, has been described in the American magazine Fanfare as ‘a Beethoven piano-sonata cycle that challenges the very notion of playing this music on modern instruments’. A man who enjoys large-scale projects, Brautigam is at the moment completing his Beethoven solo series, but has also undertaken a cycle of Mozart’s piano concertos, with the ‘Coronation’ Concerto included on the latest release. He is simultaneously beginning to record Mendelssohn’s solo piano music, on a copy of an 1830 Pleyel instrument, and the first, revelatory disc has just been released, containing four sets of the composer’s Lieder ohne Worte. read more
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