Michael Alexander Willens (conductor) (page 1 of 9)

Offer,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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Offer,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
Awards:
- Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
- International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Concerto
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Offer,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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Offer,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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Offer,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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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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Georg Philipp Telemann: Oratorium Zum Johannisfest

Kölner Akademie (chamber ensemble), Rahel Maas, Elvira Bill, Mauro Borgioni, Klaus Mertens (bass-baritone), Mirko Ludwig, André Morsch, Elena Harsányi, Michael Alexander Willins

In both works, [Willens] strives for warmth from his modest forces, and tempos are never excessively fast. In the first oratorio, he employs emphatic accents and clear dynamic changes to carry... — Fanfare, Jan/Feb 2023 More…
Release Date: 3rd Jun 2022

Catalogue No: 555271-2

Label: CPO

Length: 78 minutes
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C.P.E. Bach: Magnificat, Auf, schicke dich, recht feierlich & Ammonia fortunata

Kölner Akademie, Kölner Akademie Choir, Michael Alexander Willens

Willens and his Cologne forces do it proud, more closely recorded than a highly regarded rival (an Editor’s Choice nearly a decade ago) and with a prominent harpsichord continuo that clatters... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2024 More…
Release Date: 1st Dec 2023

Catalogue No: 555349-2

Label: CPO

Length: 68 minutes
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Offer,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... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…
Release Date: 28th Dec 2018

Catalogue No: BIS2264

Label: BIS

Length: 74 minutes
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Agricola & Homilius: Easter Cantatas

Hannah Morrison (soprano), Rahel Maas (soprano), Bethany Seymour (soprano), Elisabeth Popien (mezzo-soprano), Georg Poplutz (tenor), Andre Morsch (baritone), Die Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens

There is a lot to enjoy in these wonderfully upbeat works by two pupils of JS Bach, whose influence is not hard to discern. They benefit here from energetic, enthusiastic performances. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…
Release Date: 1st May 2020

Catalogue No: 555332-2

Label: CPO

Length: 77 minutes
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