Isabelle Van Keulen & Ronald Brautigam - Music For Violin And Piano.

Isabelle van Keulen. Violin
As a violinist and violist of world class status, Isabelle van Keulen has an established reputation on many famous concert stages. Due to her charism and musical versatility, she is already one of the most sought after musicians of her generation.

Isabelle van Keulen has appeared with such orchestras as the Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bayerischer Rundfunk, NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Vienna Radio Symphony, Tonhalle Zürich, NHK Symphony Tokyo, London Philharmonic, The Philharmonia, the Hallé Orchestra Manchester, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands, Royal Stockholm and Helsinki Philharmonics, the Minnesota Orchestra and Cincinnati and Toronto Symphonies. Conductors with whom she works include Dausgaard, Elder, Gergiev, Herreweghe, Järvi, Marriner, Nelsons, Norrington, v. Dohnányi, Swensen, Vänskä, Wolff and Zinman.

Since the 2009/10 season, Isabelle van Keulen has been Artistic Director of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, which she e. g. has been conducting during an extended tour throughout Japan/Asia.

Isabelle van Keulen is intensively engaged in the performance of contemporary music, accordingly, works by various still living composers are part of her repertoire. This is also reflected in her extensive discography.
A recording with Erkki-Sven Tüür’s violin concert, dedicated to her, (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi) was published for ECM records and was acclaimed with great enthusiasm. Further recordings – for Philipps Classics – contain works by Haydn, Mozart, Vieuxtemps and Saint-Saëns as well as Strawinsky’s duo works with Olli Mustonen. For Koch-Schwann Isabelle van Keulen recorded Lutoslawski’s “Chain 2”, Schnittke’s concert for viola, Dutilleux’s “L’arbre des songes” and the complete works of Max Bruch for violin, viola and orchestra. The Swedish label BIS produced several duo CDs with Ronald Brautigam as well as recordings of the concerts by Mendelssohn. Recordings recently published are a duo CD with Ronald Brautigam dedicated to works by Elgar, Grieg and Sibelius (Challenge Records) as well as a recording of Berg’s violin concert with the Göteborg Symphony Orchestra under Mario Venzago (Chandos).

In the field of chamber music, Isabelle van Keulen additionally continues her highly successful duo collaboration with pianist Ronald Brautigam. In 2010, she and Ronald Brautigam celebrate 20 years of duo performances with cycles of all of Beethoven’s violin sonatas e. g. at Konserthuset Stockholm.

She plays a Joseph Guarnerius del Gesu violin from 1734 and her viola is made by Peter Greiner.

Ronald Brautigam, piano
Ronald Brautigam (born 1954) is currently one of The Netherlands' most widely respected pianists.

Born in Amsterdam, Brautigam studied with Jan Wijn and left to study in London and in the United States. His skill as a pianist was recognised by Dutch musicians and in 1984 he was awarded the Nederlandse Muziekprijs.

He currently lives in Amsterdam with his wife Mary.

Tracklist
01 Edvard Grieg: Sonata for violin and piano no. 1 , op. 8 [1] 09:25
02 Edvard Grieg: Sonata for violin and piano no. 1 , op. 8 [2] 04:39
03 Edvard Grieg: Sonata for violin and piano no. 1 , op. 8 [3] 08:54
04 Edward Elgar: Sospiri op. 70 04:58
05 Jean Sibelius: Humoresque op. 87 no.2 [1] 02:33
06 Jean Sibelius: Humoresque op. 87 no.2 [2] 03:43
07 Jean Sibelius: Humoresque op. 87 no.4 03:03
08 Edwin Elgar: Sonata for violin and piano, op. 82 [1] 07:26
09 Edwin Elgar: Sonata for violin and piano, op. 82 [2] 08:04
10 Edwin Elgar: Sonata for violin and piano, op. 82 [3] 08:05



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