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Weber: Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra

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Ronald 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... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…
- Release Date: 2nd Apr 2021
- Catalogue No: BIS2384
- Label: BIS
- Length: 55 minutes
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- International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Concerto
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Johann Wilhelm Wilms: The Piano Concertos, Vol. 1

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Ronald 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. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…
- Release Date: 1st Jul 2022
- Catalogue No: BIS2504
- Label: BIS
- Length: 82 minutes
Awards:
- Presto Recording of the Week, 1st July 2022
- Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
- 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... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2023, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…
- Release Date: 2nd Dec 2022
- Catalogue No: BIS2524
- Label: BIS
- Length: 59 minutes
Awards:
- Record Review, 17th December 2022, Record of the Week
- International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Concerto
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Beethoven: The Piano Concertos

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The 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... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2020 More…
- Release Date: 1st Nov 2019
- Catalogue No: BIS2274
- Label: BIS
- Length: 2 hours 37 minutes
Awards:
- Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Mozart: Overtures

Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens

The Kölner Akademie is in period instrument guise, and the sound is often suitably thrilling and zippy. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…
- Release Date: 19th Jan 2024
- Catalogue No: BIS2062
- Label: BIS
- Length: 61 minutes
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New. Johannes Bernardus van Bree: Violin Concerto · Fantasy · Overtures

Michael Alexander Willens and Kölner Akademie featuring Ariadne Daskalakis, Ariadne Daskalakis
Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens
- Release Date: 6th Sep 2024
- Catalogue No: 777743-2
- Label: CPO
- Length: 57 minutes
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Special offer. 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... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2023 More…
- Release Date: 1st Sep 2023
- Catalogue No: 555554-2
- Label: CPO
- Length: 66 minutes
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Mozart: Haffner Serenade & Ein musikalischer Spaß

Alexander Janiczek (violin)
Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens

The Musical Joke benefits from being played ‘straight’, by and large, and it’s always a peculiar delight to hear natural horns squawking away in the ‘wrong’ key...It’s the Haffner music that... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2020 More…
- Release Date: 28th Feb 2020
- Catalogue No: BIS2394
- Label: BIS
- Length: 85 minutes
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Special offer. Carl Friedrich Abel: Symphonies Op. 1 & Op. 4

Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens
- Release Date: 1st Dec 2017
- Catalogue No: 555137-2
- Label: CPO
- Length: 88 minutes
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Special offer. Offenbach: Pomme d'Api & Sur un volcan

Kölner Akademie (chamber ensemble)
Michael Alexander Willens

Pomme d’Api is a gem, Offenbach unstinting with the melodies he lavished on this slight tale…Easing herself into both women’s roles [Léger’s] tone softens and she gets the measure of Offenbach’s... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…
- Release Date: 31st Jan 2020
- Catalogue No: 555268-2
- Label: CPO
- Length: 82 minutes
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