biography
Ronald Brautigam
on fortepiano. After the first six volumes
the series had already become firmly established as the benchmark cycle
on fortepiano. According to US magazine Fanfare ‘this could be a Beethoven
piano-sonata cycle that challenges the very notion of playing this music on
modern instruments, a stylistic paradigm shift.’
In 2009 he began what has proved a highly successful association with the Kölner Akademie and conductor Michael Alexander Willens, resulting in a series of 11 CD's with Mozart's complete piano concertos on fortepiano.
Besides his work for BIS, Ronald Brautigam has recorded piano concertos by
Shostakovich, Hindemith and Frank Martin with the Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Chailly for Decca, and has made several
recordings with violinist Isabelle van Keulen.
Brautigam’s recordings have earned a number of awards including three Edisons,
a Diapason d’Or de l’année, a ‘MIDEM Classical Award’ for best solo
piano recording (2004) and in 2010 he won the prestigious MIDEM Classical
Award for best concerto recording.
In 2015 his Beethoven recordings won him an Edison Award and the Jahrespreis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik.
Ronald Brautigam is Professor at the Musik-Hochschule in Basel.
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
Norrköping 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, Sydney Symphony Orchestra. 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, Sir Simon Rattle, 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, the Wiener Akademie,
Concerto Copenhagen and l’Orchestre des Champs-Elysées.
In 1995 Ronald Brautigam began what has proved a highly successful association
with the Swedish label BIS. His discography of over 60 recordings so far
includes the complete works of Mozart and Haydn on fortepiano. In 2004 he released
the first of his 15-CD Beethoven cycle
Ronald Brautigam and Rudolf Serkin,1983