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  Karel Van den Abbeele
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  English is not my native language. I have no musical background, I am just a very humble pianoplayer, my technical knowledge is just enough to explain my family and friends the difference between CD and SACD, but I am a musiclover from the deepest of my heart. I love a recording when I get the feeling that the players transform in the best possible way the message from the composer’s heart to mine so that my emotions are moved, when the sound is realistic, when it makes me happy that this disc exists. And I go for period instruments, I love pianofortes...
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Beethoven: Complete Piano Works Vol. 10 - Brautigam        (7 of 8 found this review helpful)
  September 21, 2011

This "Complete Bagatelles" is very complete. We get the 3 sets op 33, op 119 and op 126, some odd bagatelles (Bagatelle in C major, Hess 73, Bagatelle in E flat major, Hess 74, Bagatelle in C major, WoO 54, 'Lustig-Traurig', Bagatelle in C major, WoO56, Bagatelle in C minor, WoO52, Bagatelle in C ... more
Mozart: Piano Concertos Vol. 1 - Brautigam, Willens        (10 of 12 found this review helpful)
  January 18, 2011

This review is based on my love for Brautigam’s Beethoven SACD’s, for Brautigam live in Gent and for Mozart’s pianoconcertos. I compared with the recordings by Bilson/Gardiner, Levin/Hogwood, Van Immerseel/Van Immerseel and Sofronitsky/Karolak. One always wonders if a new recording deserves a place ... more
Beethoven: Complete Piano Works Vol. 9 - Brautigam        (6 of 6 found this review helpful)
  November 3, 2010

It was never clear to me why these early sonatas are treated as isolated from the venerable 32. For me Beethoven wrote 35 sonatas. I heard them for the first time played by Ursula Dütschler on a Walter-copy and they were charming light pieces and real sonatas but I did not feel the need to hear them ... more
Beethoven: Complete Piano Works Vol. 8 - Brautigam        (9 of 9 found this review helpful)
  August 16, 2010

I am extremely in love with the last piano sonatas since I first heard Paul Komen playing them on a 1830 Conrad Graf instrument. And although none of the recordings gives me complete satisfaction I am very happy to have in my collection the CD's from Badura-Skoda, Komen, Ney, Demus, Binns and ... more
Beethoven: Complete Piano Works Vol. 7 - Brautigam        (5 of 5 found this review helpful)
  September 28, 2009

Listening to the sonata op 81a, the first thing that hit me was the palette of colours Brautigam gets out of the instrument. One moment he gently caresses some limits of the instrument, a few bars futher, the whole instrument sings as if there are no limits. The main profits of this reading are the ... more

 
 
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Discussion: Beethoven: Symphony Nos. 5, 6 - Immerseel
January 22, 2009
Hi, this SACD and the first recording of the 9th on CD are linked to liveconcerts in 1998 and 1999 (with some pianoconcerto's). I saw them all, they were rough diamonds and trilling exercises, (wishfull thinking : probably close to the expierences in Beethoven's days...). And this magic is on the 9th cd and on de SACD with 5th and 6th but the ... more