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Johann Wilhelm Wilms: The Piano Concertos, Vol. 1 RecommendedRonald Brautigam, Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens
Brautigam and Willens plainly believe in this music: they collaborated on the editions used, and create performances of lightness and transparency, matched by the recording’s clarity. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st July 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
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Johann Wilhelm Wilms: The Piano Concertos, Vol. 2 Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)
Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens
The Cologne-based period instrument ensemble responds to Michael Alexander Willens’s insightful direction with affectionate warmth and incisive attentiveness. Roland Brautigam, meanwhile, deploys... — More…
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Record Review, 17th December 2022, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Concerto
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Weber: Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra RecommendedRonald Brautigam (fortepiano), Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens
Both concertos have a presto finale which calls for dazzling virtuosity – something which Brautigam has in spades: his fearless pyrotechnics are truly astounding. He’s stylishly supported by... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Concerto
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The Kölner Akademie is in period instrument guise, and the sound is often suitably thrilling and zippy. — More…
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Beethoven: The Piano Concertos RecommendedThe five Beethoven piano concertos on period instruments
Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)
Die Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens
Textures are bracingly lean, with a lightness and transparency that seems airborne...There’s nothing pompous or heavyhanded in these readings. Both Brautigam and Willens are alive to Beethoven’s... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos Ronald Brautigam (pleyel grand)
Die Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens
Brautigam uses a copy of a Pleyel piano of 1831 – just a year before the First Concerto was composed – and he skates over its keys with dazzling ease…he negotiates the cascades of notes with... — More…
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 17 & 26 Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)
Die Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens
This is a really fine performance [of K453], with the slow movement's sublime interplay between piano and winds perfectly judged, and the wit and drama of the variation finale vividly handled... — More…
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Emilie Mayer: Piano Concerto · Overtures
Tobias Koch (piano), Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens
The warm period sonorities of the Kölner Akademie – pure-toned strings and downy flutes – help to place Emilie Mayer as a strongly independent contemporary of Mendelssohn and Schumann in this... — More…
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Offenbach: Le Violoneux & Le 66 Sandrine Buendia, Pierre-Antoine Chaumien, Armando Noguera, Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens
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Johann David Heinichen: Two Passion Oratorios
Elena Harsanyi (soprano), Elvira Bill (alto), Mirko Ludwig (tenor), Andreas Wolf (baritone), Kolner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens
Elvira Bill has a lovely, smooth voice... Antonio de Sarlo, deservedly receives credit as Italian diction coach. The pronunciation and inflection of the Italian are impeccable throughout. — More…
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