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The piano sonatas vol. 2

Ronald Brautigam

The piano sonatas vol. 2

Format: CD
Label: Globe
UPC: 8711525506206
Catnr: GLO 5062
Release date: 01 September 1991
1 CD
 
Label
Globe
UPC
8711525506206
Catalogue number
GLO 5062
Release date
01 September 1991
Album
Artist(s)
Composer(s)
NL

About the album

Volume twee uit Brautigams serie met Pianosonates van Schumann
In februari 1991 werd het eerste volume van deze serie met alle Pianosonates van Robert Schumann uitgebracht, uitgevoerd door Ronald Brautigam, een van de opmerkelijkste pianisten van tegenwoordig. Dit volume werd door het vooraanstaande Amerikaanse tijdschrift Fanfare beschreven als: “an outstanding performance [...] a natural Schumann player with a beautifully controlled sound, a wide range of dynamics, precise rhythm, and a real identification with the Schumannesque idiom which succeeds in combining the introspective and extrovert qualities of the music, as the moment demands.”

Dit tweede volume is de meest complete opname van Schumanns sonates die ooit op album is uitgebracht, omdat aan de opnieuw uitstekende interpretaties van Brautigam ook de originele sonatedelen van Schumann zijn toegevoegd. De luisteraar kan nu met wat handig gerommel aan de knoppen van de radio ook Schumanns originele ideeën over deze werken ontdekken, voordat ze werden veranderd op het (vaak onverstandige) advies van zijn vrouw Clara. Enkele van de grootste pianisten in de geschiedenis, zoals Sviatoslav Richter en Vladimir Horowitz, gaven altijd de voorkeur aan Schumanns originele finale tot zijn Sonate in g klein Opus 22!

Naast alle historische en muzikale argumenten, is het ook een feit dat er slechts weinig opnames van Schumanns Sonate in f klein Opus 14 zijn, beter bekend als het ‘Concert zonder Orkest’, en er zijn zeker geen betere opnames van dit werk te vinden dan deze. Al met al is dit dus een album van groot belang!

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...
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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.

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Composer(s)

Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann was a German composer and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. He had been assured by his teacher Friedrich Wieck that he could become the finest pianist in Europe, but a hand injury ended this dream. Schumann then focused his musical energies on composing. Schumann's published compositions were written exclusively for the piano until 1840; he later composed works for piano and orchestra; many Lieder (songs for voice and piano); four symphonies; an opera; and other orchestral, choral, and chamber works. Works such as Carnaval, Symphonic Studies, Kinderszenen, Kreisleriana, and the Fantasie in...
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Robert Schumann was a German composer and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. He had been assured by his teacher Friedrich Wieck that he could become the finest pianist in Europe, but a hand injury ended this dream. Schumann then focused his musical energies on composing.
Schumann's published compositions were written exclusively for the piano until 1840; he later composed works for piano and orchestra; many Lieder (songs for voice and piano); four symphonies; an opera; and other orchestral, choral, and chamber works. Works such as Carnaval, Symphonic Studies, Kinderszenen, Kreisleriana, and the Fantasie in C are among his most famous. His writings about music appeared mostly in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (New Journal for Music), a Leipzig-based publication which he jointly founded.
In 1840, Schumann married Friedrich Wieck's daughter Clara, against the wishes of her father, following a long and acrimonious legal battle, which found in favour of Clara and Robert. Clara also composed music and had a considerable concert career as a pianist, the earnings from which, before her marriage, formed a substantial part of her father's fortune.
Schumann suffered from a mental disorder, first manifesting itself in 1833 as a severe melancholic depressive episode, which recurred several times alternating with phases of ‘exaltation’ and increasingly also delusional ideas of being poisoned or threatened with metallic items. After a suicide attempt in 1854, Schumann was admitted to a mental asylum, at his own request, in Endenich near Bonn. Diagnosed with "psychotic melancholia", Schumann died two years later in 1856 without having recovered from his mental illness.

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01.
Sonata in f minor, Op. 14 (1853 edition): I. Allegro
06:31
(Robert Schumann) Ronald Brautigam
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Sonata in f minor, Op. 14 (1853 edition): II. Scherzo. Molto comodo
05:15
(Robert Schumann) Ronald Brautigam
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Sonata in f minor, Op. 14 (1853 edition): III. Quasi Variazioni. Andantino de Clara Wieck
05:46
(Robert Schumann) Ronald Brautigam
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Sonata in f minor, Op. 14 (1853 edition): IV. Prestissimo possibile
06:53
(Robert Schumann) Ronald Brautigam
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Sonata in f minor, Op. 14 (1853 edition): V. Scherzo. Vivacissimo (from the 1836 autograph, posthumously published in 1866)
02:40
(Robert Schumann) Ronald Brautigam
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Sonata in f minor, Op. 14 (1853 edition): VI. Quasi Variazioni. Andantino de Clara Wieck (from the 1836 autograph, posthumously published in 1983)
06:55
(Robert Schumann) Ronald Brautigam
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Sonata in g minor, Op. 22 (1830-1838)(1839 edition): I. So rasch wie möglich
06:04
(Robert Schumann) Ronald Brautigam
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Sonata in g minor, Op. 22 (1830-1838)(1839 edition): II. Andantino. Getragen
04:24
(Robert Schumann) Ronald Brautigam
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Sonata in g minor, Op. 22 (1830-1838)(1839 edition): III. Scherzo. Sehr rasch und markiert
01:31
(Robert Schumann) Ronald Brautigam
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Sonata in g minor, Op. 22 (1830-1838)(1839 edition): IV. Rondo. Presto
05:09
(Robert Schumann) Ronald Brautigam
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Sonata in g minor, Op. 22 (1830-1838)(1839 edition): V. Ursprüngliches Finale. Presto. Passionato (Original Finale, written in 1835, posthumously published in 1866(
05:47
(Robert Schumann) Ronald Brautigam
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