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Instrumentalists
Piano
Ronald Brautigam
Arnaldo Cohen
Nelson Goerner
Anders Kilström
Evgeny Kissin
Artur Pizarro
Mikhail Rudy
Violin
Karen Gomyo
Chloë Hanslip
Daniel Hope
Tobias Ringborg
Jan Stigmer
Cello
Danjulo Ishizaka
Mats Rondin
Clarinet
Emil Jonason
String Quartet
Brodsky Quartet
Sine Nomine Lausanne
Chamber Orchestra
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Ronald Brautigam /Piano
Ronald Brautigam, one of Holland's leading musicians, is remarkable not only for
his virtuosity and musicality but also for the eclectic nature of his musical
interests. He studied in Amsterdam, London and the United States of America with
Rudolf Serkin. In 1984 he was honored with the Nederlandse Muziekprijs, the
highest Dutch musical award.
Ronald Brautigam performs regularly with leading European orchestras under
distinguished conductors such as Riccardo Chailly, Charles Dutoit, Bernard
Haitink, Frans Brüggen, Philippe Herreweghe, Christopher Hogwood, Andrew
Parrott, Bruno Weil, Ivan Fischer and Edo de Waart.
Besides his performances on modern instruments Ronald Brautigam has
developed a great passion for the fortepiano. He has performed with leading
orchestras such as the 18thCentury Orchestra, Tafelmusik, the Orchestra of the
Age of Enlightenment, the Hanover Band, Freiburger Barockorchester, Concerto
Copenhagen and l'Orchestre des ChampsElysées.
He is also a devoted player of chamber music, regularly working together with
Isabelle van Keulen, Melvyn Tan and Alexei Lubimov.
In 1995 Ronald Brautigam began what has proved a highly successful
association with the Swedish label BIS. Among the more than 30 titles released
so far are Mendelssohn's Piano Concertos (with Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam),
and the complete piano works of Mozart and Haydn on the fortepiano. The year
2004 saw the release of the first of a 17CD Beethoven cycle, also on the
fortepiano. Already after the appearance of the first five volumes this series has
become firmly established as the reference recording as far as fortepiano cycles
are concerned. Many reviewers have made even greater claims for it, as in the
US magazine Fanfare: 'This could be a Beethoven pianosonata cycle thatchallenges the very notion of playing this music on modern instruments, a stylistic paradigm shift.' And the Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote: 'One feels almost
as if one were a contemporary of Beethoven’s, one of the first, immensely
astonished – not to say agitated – individuals to hear this music.'
Besides his work for BIS, Ronald Brautigam has also recorded piano concertos by
Shostakovich, Hindemith and Frank Martin with the Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra and Riccardo Chailly, for Decca. His recordings have earned him 2
Edison Awards, 2 Diapasons d'Or and 1 Diapason d’Or de l’année, 8 Choc du
Mois (le Monde de la Musique) and, in 2004, a 'Cannes Classical Award' for that
year's best piano solo recording.
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