Mozart Ronald Brautigam

Ronald Brautigam, Michael Alexander Willens, Kolner Akademie - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 24 & 25 (2011)

Ronald Brautigam, Michael Alexander Willens, Kölner Akademie - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 24 & 25 (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 231 Mb | Total time: 55:29 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-1894 | Recorded: 2010

Composed in 1786, the Piano Concertos Nos 24 in C minor and 25 in C major are regarded as two of Mozart's finest achievements in the genre. Both are large-scale works, with durations of more than 25 minutes each – the C major concerto is in fact one of the most expansive of all classical piano concertos, rivalling Beethoven’s fifth concerto. Their grandeur immediately made them popular fare in the concert hall – Mendelssohn, for instance, had No.24 in his repertoire through the 1820s and 1830s – and new recordings appear regularly. It is nevertheless relatively rare to hear them performed on original instruments and with orchestral forces corresponding to what Mozart himself would have been familiar with.
Ronald Brautigam, Die Kolner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 18 & 22 (2014)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 18 in B flat major & 22 in E flat major (2014)
Ronald Brautigam, fortepiano; Die Kölner Akademie; Michael Alexander Willens, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 251 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 140 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-2044 | Time: 01:00:03

The sixth disc in this highly acclaimed series combine two works in which Mozart's powers as an orchestrator come to the fore. Concerto No. 18 in B flat major, K 456, is sometimes referred to as one of the composers military concertos on the basis of the march-like main theme of the first movement. But more striking is the variety of ways that Mozart employs the various groups of instruments: strings, wind instruments and, of course, the piano. This aspect certainly didn't pass unnoticed by a listener as initiated as Mozart's father Leopold: in a letter to his daughter Nannerl he described how his enjoyment of the orchestral interplay had brought tears to his eyes.
Ronald Brautigam - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 19 & 23 (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Ronald Brautigam, Die Kölner Akademie - Mozart: Piano Concertos 19 & 23 (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 50:00 minutes | 871 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Ronald Brautigam has been described as ‘an absolutely instinctive Mozartian… with melodic playing of consummate beauty’ (International Record Review), and he is once again supported by the period orchestra Die Kölner Akademie conducted by Michael Alexander Willens in a partnership which more than one reviewer has termed ‘ideal’.
Ronald Brautigam - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 27 (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Ronald Brautigam, Die Kölner Akademie - Mozart: Piano Concertos 20 & 27 (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 53:34 minutes | 954 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

These two exceptional works are here performed by Ronald Brautigam and Die Kölner Akademie, on their fifth disc of Mozart’s concertos – an ongoing series which has been described as ‘a lucky break and a true delight’ in the German magazine Piano News.
Ronald Brautigam, Kölner Akademie & Michael Alexander Willens - Weber: Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra (2021)

Ronald Brautigam, Kölner Akademie & Michael Alexander Willens - Weber: Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 216 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 132 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:55:58
Classical | Label: BIS

Carl Maria von Weber wrote music that has been admired by composers as diverse as Schumann, Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky. But in his lifetime he was also recognised as one of the finest pianists of the period, with an exceptional technique and a brilliant gift for improvisation.
Ronald Brautigam, Michael Alexander Willens - Carl Maria von Weber: Complete Works for Piano & Orchestra (2021)

Ronald Brautigam, Michael Alexander Willens, Kölner Akademie - Carl Maria von Weber: Complete Works for Piano & Orchestra (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 241 Mb | Total time: 56:18 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS Records | # BIS-2384 SACD | Recorded: 2018

Carl Maria von Weber wrote music that has been admired by composers as diverse as Schumann, Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky. But in his lifetime he was also recognised as one of the finest pianists of the period, with an exceptional technique and a brilliant gift for improvisation. Especially during the 1810s he toured extensively, and like other composer-pianists he wrote works to use as his personal calling cards, among them the two piano concertos recorded here. They were both composed in 1811-12, but while the First Concerto takes Mozart's concertos as its model, Piano Concerto No. 2 looks towards Beethoven.
Ronald Brautigam, Michael Alexander Willens, Kölner Akademie - Beethoven: The Piano Concertos (2019)

Ronald Brautigam, Michael Alexander Willens, Kölner Akademie - Beethoven: The Piano Concertos (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 652 Mb | Total time: 157:13 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-2274 SACD | Recorded: 2017, 2018

As one of the finest pianists of his era and an improviser of genius, Ludwig van Beethoven’s preferred vehicle for musical exploration was the piano. His earliest composition, from 1782, was a set of piano variations and he continued to compose for solo piano until the last years of his life. His interest in the concerto form diminished as his deafness forced him to retire from performing. Nonetheless, with his five piano concertos composed between 1788 and 1809, Beethoven not only achieved a brilliant conclusion to the Classical piano concerto, but also established a new model for the Romantic era: a sort of symphony with obbligato piano which remained a reference point well into the beginning of the twentieth.
Christian Poltera, Ronald Brautigam - Felix Mendelssohn: Works for Cello and Piano (2017)

Felix Mendelssohn: Works for Cello & Piano (2017)
Christian Poltéra (cello), Ronald Brautigam (piano)

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 259 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 142 Mb | Artwork included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-2187 | 01:00:26

It is well known that Felix Mendelssohn’s sister Fanny was a highly talented musician, but fewer are familiar with the fact that there were two other musical siblings in the Mendelssohn family: Rebecka, a gifted singer, and Paul, a very competent amateur cellist. It is to Paul, a banker by profession, that we owe the existence of much of Felix’s music for the instrument, which in spite of Beethoven’s endeavours hadn’t yet become firmly established as a duo partner of the piano. Fitting comfortably on a single release, Mendelssohn’s works for cello and piano are here presented by Christian Poltera and Ronald Brautigam, who open with the Variations concertantes in D major, composed in 1829. Brautigam has recently released the composer’s Lieder ohne Worte, performing them on a copy of a piano by Pleyel from 1830, and plays the same instrument on the present disc. Meanwhile, Poltera has chosen to equip his 1711 Stradivarius cello with gut strings, and together the two musicians and their instruments create a sound which is both flexible, transparent and vigorous – ideal for Mendelssohn’s scores.
Ronald Brautigam, Kölner Akademie & Michael Alexander Willens - Weber: Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra (2021) [24/96]

Ronald Brautigam, Kölner Akademie & Michael Alexander Willens - Weber: Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 55:58 minutes | 948 MB
Classical | Label: BIS, Official Digital Download

Carl Maria von Weber wrote music that has been admired by composers as diverse as Schumann, Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky. But in his lifetime he was also recognised as one of the finest pianists of the period, with an exceptional technique and a brilliant gift for improvisation.
Ronald Brautigam - Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos (2019) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Ronald Brautigam, Die Kölner Akademie & Michael Alexander Willens - Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 74:02 minutes | 1.22 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

This is the ninth installment in Ronald Brautigam's series of the complete piano concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. As on previous discs, Brautigam whose 'muscular yet sensitively nuanced command of Mozartian discourse' (BBC Music Magazine) is supported by Die Kölner Akademie under Michael Alexander Willens.