Utwory na płycie:

• Fantasi, Op.77 (beginning)
• 32 Variations in C minor, WoO 80 (Var. 28-32)
• Var. IV. Un poco più vivace (from Diabelli Variations; beginning)
• Var. XXIV. Fughetta. Andante (from Diabelli Variations; beginning)

CD 1 - The Complete Bagatelles:
Sieben Bagatellen, Op. 33
Bagatelles 1795–1804
Elf Neue Bagatellen, Op. 119
Bagatelles 1810–25
Sechs Bagatellen, Op. 126

CD 2 - Variations (I):
Zwölf Variationen, WoO 71
Acht Variationen, WoO 72
Zehn Variationen, WoO 73
Sieben Variationen, WoO 75
Acht Variationen, WoO 76
Sechs Variationen über ein eigenes Thema G-Dur, WoO 77
Fünfzehn Variationen mit einer Fuge Es-Dur, Op. 35 (‘Eroica’ Variations)

CD 3 - Variations (II):
Neun Variationen, WoO 63
Sechs Variationen, WoO 64
Vierundzwanzig Variationen, WoO 65
Dreizehn Variationen, WoO 66
Zwölf Variationen, WoO 68
Neun Variationen, WoO 69
Sechs Variationen, WoO 70

CD 4 - Rondos & Klavierstücke:
Rondo in C major, WoO 48
Rondo in A major, WoO 49
Rondo in B flat major
Rondo in C major, Op. 51 No. 1
Rondo in G major, Op. 51 No. 2
Rondo a capriccio in G major, Op. 129
Ecossaise in E flat major, WoO 86
Six Ecossaises, WoO 83
Andante in F major, WoO 57
Fantasie, Op. 77
Polonaise in C major, Op. 89
Klavierstück ‘Für Elise’
Andante maestoso in C major

CD 5 - Variations & Klavierstücke:
Sechs Variationen in F major, Op. 34
Sieben Variationen in C major, WoO 78
Fünf Variationen in D major, WoO 79
Zweiunddreißig Variationen in C minor, WoO 80
Sechs Variationen in D major, Op. 76, „Die Ruinen von Athen“
Zwei Präludien durch alle Dur-Tonarten for piano or organ, Op. 39
Dreistimmige Fuge in C major, Hess 64
Präludium in F minor, WoO 55
Menuett in F major, WoO 217
Allemande in A major, WoO 81
Anglaise in D major, WoO 212
Menuett in E flat major, WoO 82
Walzer in E flat major, WoO 84
Walzer in D major, WoO 85

CD 6 - Diabelli Variations:
33 Veränderungen über einen Walzer von Anton Diabelli, Op. 120
6 National Airs with Variations, Op. 105

Between 2003 and 2015, Ronald Brautigam recorded all of Beethoven’s music for solo piano – a huge undertaking resulting in a grand total of 15 highly acclaimed discs. Choosing to perform the works on the fortepiano, Brautigam began with a sonata cycle which caused one reviewer to talk of a challenge to ‘the very notion of playing this music on modern instruments, a stylistic paradigm shift.’ In 2010, after nine discs of sonatas, he went on to record the composer’s variations, bagatelles and other piano pieces – a staggering array of works ranging from a Bagatelle lasting 11 seconds to the monumental Diabelli Variations, and from a charming Rondo in C major composed by a 13-year old Beethoven, to what is often referred to as the composer's ‘Last Musical Thought’, an Andante maestoso dated 1826.

Ronald Brautigam’s sonata recordings were released as a box set in 2014, and they are now followed by this 6-disc box of the remaining works for solo piano, in the original hybrid SACD format, and with full documentation in the form of the original booklets. Composed over the course of more than 40 years, the music is performed on three different instruments, all by the master builder Paul McNulty, demonstrating the rapid development that the fortepiano underwent during Beethoven’s lifetime.

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Reedycja płyt BISSACD 1673, 1882, 1883, 1892, 1942, 1943. Instrument by Paul McNulty, after a 4-stringed fortepiano by Conrad Graf, c. 1822, Op. 423. Cardboard box – Original booklets included.