Since you are interested in Plays Scriabin (Incls Sonatas Nos 2, 5 & 9), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Op 58 / Piano Concerto in D Op 61 Ronald Brautigam (piano) / Norrkaping Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Parrott [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Nov/2009 ] "Brautigam gets as close as possible to Beethoven's own performance style." Gramophone Magazine, February 2010 |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concertos WoO. 4 & No. 2 Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano) [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] Ronald Brautigam releases his second disc of Beethoven's Piano Concertos - this time offering a youthfully fresh Concerto No. 2 which was actually conceived long before the First Piano Concerto. |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Works Vol. 1 (Includes the Pathatique Sonata) Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano) [ BIS / SACD - released 1/Sep/2004 ] "The playing is riveting. Brautigam draws out the "Pathetique" sonata's first-movement introduction with plenty of rhetorical emphasis yet keeps the dotted rhythms in sharp focus...Whether in SACD surround-sound or conventional two-channel stereo... |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Works Vol. 3 (Sonatas Nos 4 - 7) Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano) [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jun/2006 ] 'could be a Beethoven piano-sonata cycle that challenges the very notion of playing this music on modern instruments, a stylistic paradigm shift.' (Fanfare on Vol 1) |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Works Vol. 5 (Sonatas Nos 16 - 18) Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano) [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/May/2007 ] "I love this disc and it’s hardly been out of the player since it arrived...I’ve said in the past that it feels as if the composer were in the room with you, and looking at the booklet photograph of Brautigam, he’s even beginning to resemble the... |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Works Vol. 6 (Sonatas Nos 21 - 25 incls 'Appassionata') Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano) [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] "Brautigam's Beethoven is more than just a compelling case for period pianos" (Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine Dec 2008) |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Works Vol. 7 (Sonatas Nos 26, 27 & 29 incls “Hammerklavier”) Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano) [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jul/2009 ] "… a fine recital, and the most impressive instalment so far in Brautigam's Beethoven cycle. The warm-sounding reproduction Graf piano from around 1819 has been very well recorded." BBC Music Magazine, November 2009 ***** |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Works Vol. 8 (Sonatas Nos 28, 30, 31 & 32) Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano) [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/May/2010 ] "There are few early-instrument practitioners who can match Brautigam's music insight and technical prowess...there are no holds barred in his impressively passionate account of Op. 111's opening Allegro" (BBC Music Sept 2010) |
W. A. MOZART
Piano Concertos Nos. 9 & 12 / Rondo for Piano & Orchestra in A Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano) / Die Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] "What's impressive about [Brautigam's] playing is not just its sprightliness, but also its expressive character...If you prefer your Mozart played on period instruments, you're unlikely to find better performances than these." (BBC Music) |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No.5 in E flat 'Emperor' / Choral Fantasia in C minor Ronald Brautigam (piano) / Norrkaping Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Parrott [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] "Notes pour and sparkle from Brautigam's fingers like diamonds...clearly Bruatigam has chosen his instrument to reflect his love of clarity, lightness and speed" Gramophone Magazine, November 2010 |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No.1 in C major, Op.15 / Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor, Op.37 Ronald Brautigam (piano) / Norrkaping Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Parrott [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2008 ] "Overall, it's very hard to fault this disc but - and it's a big one - as a 'conventional' performance it does enter an exceptionally crowded field, whereas it may have become an easy front-runner if period instruments had been used. However, even if... |
DEBUSSY
Arabesque / Suite Bergamasque / Preludes / etc Ronan O'Hora (piano) [ Royal Philharmonic / SACD - released 10/Apr/2006 ] The world's largest-ever classical recording contract with one of the most outstanding orchestras, was begun in September 1993 and has been built into a collection of over 150 albums of the world's best classical music. |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5 Emperor / Symphony No. 5 in C minor Op. 67 Rudolf Serkin (piano) / Boston Symphony Orchestra. Seiji Ozawa [ Telarc SACD / SACD - released 25/Mar/2004 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in stereo direct stream sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM - the original Soundstream master of that great recording, coupled with Ozawa and the BSO performing the Beethoven Fifth Symphony, has been... |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony Nos. 1 & 6 Russian National Orchestra / Vladimir Jurowski [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 18/Apr/2006 ] "It is one of the finest recordings in the PentaTone catalogue." -Christophe Huss, ClassicsToday 10/10 (France) |
GODARD / WIDOR / ROUSSEL / MILHAUD / SANCAN
French Delights: Suites & Sonatas Sharon Bezaly (flute) Love Derwinger (piano) with Barbara Hendricks (soprano) [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2007 ] "The thing that strikes you first when you hear Sharon Bezaly play is the quality of the sound. It is distinctive, rich and overwhelmingly beautiful. Add to that a flawless technique and one would be hard pushed to find any fault with her playing.... |
PROKOFIEV / SCHUBERT / DUTILLEUX / JOLIVET
Masterworks for Flute and Piano Sharon Bezaly (flute) / Ronald Brautigam (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2006 ] "On the evidence of this sensational disc, it seems clear that Sharon Bezaly is a flutist virtually without peer in the world today. Here we have four genuine masterpieces that make a lovely program together, all really written for flute and piano,... |
POULENC / MARTIN / REINECKE / MARTINU / MESSIAEN
Masterworks for Flute and Piano II Sharon Bezaly (flute) Ronald Brautigam (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/May/2010 ] From Carl Reinecke's Undine Sonata, composed in 1882, to Poulenc's 1957 Flute Sonata this disc brings together five central works in the repertoire for flute and piano, covering a wide range of styles and approaches. |