Dutch pianist Ronald Brautigam is celebrated for his Beethoven scholarship and performances. One might call him a “period” Beethoven player, in that he attempts to perform the titan’s music as the ...

The Music No. 5 is the last of Beethoven’s piano concertos, and the grandest. Ever the innovator, Beethoven begins with flourishes on the piano, which however falls silent until it re-enters in ...

Dutch pianist Ronald Brautigam has been hailed as one of the true-fire interpreters of “authentic” Beethoven. Playing on 19th-century pianos, similar to ones on which Beethoven played and performed, ...

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Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 Michael Alexander Willens, Conductor Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Ronald Brautigam, Fortepiano Cologne Academy Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 Cologne ...

Playing a modern grand, the Dutch pianist opens with Beethoven’s revised (1808) version of the great Fourth Piano Concerto. There are over 30 amendments to the better-known original (1806), mainly in ...

In all three WoO47 sonatas Brautigam plays up the teenage composer’s budding proclivity for sudden dynamic contrasts and comic timing, while enlivening the slow movements with operatically inflected ...

Sonata for Piano No. 30 Elisabeth Leonskaja, Piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Sonata for Piano No. 31 Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Elisabeth Leonskaja, Piano Sonata for Piano No. 32 Elisabeth ...