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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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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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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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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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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 27 RecommendedRonald Brautigam (fortepiano)
Die Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens
Brautigam and Michael Alexander Willens are never exactly slouches when it comes to tempos, and they give a breathlessly agitated account of the opening movement of the D minor Concerto K466...the... — More…
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Building A Library, January 2022, Also Recommended - K466
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 18 & 22 Ronald Brautigam (piano)
Die Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens
While Brautigam and Willens have sometims tended to favour tempos distinctly on the fast side, that isn't the case here: these are finely-judged performances throughout, in which every detail... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2014, Editor's Choice
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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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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. 15 & 16 Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)
Die Kolner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens
The series's central sources of strength remains Ronald Brautigam's muscular yet sensitively nuanced command of of Mozartian discourse in every aspect: for instance, his straightfoward accounts... — More…
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