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Browse: Kölner Akademie (chamber ensemble)
This page lists all recordings performed by Kölner Akademie.
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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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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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Ernst Wilhelm Wolf: Christmas Cantatas Beate Mordal, Elvira Bill, Georg Poplutz, Matthias Vieweg, Andrey Akhmetov, Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens
I greatly appreciate his [Matthias Vieweg’s] voice and his singing... I quite like her [Beate Mordal's] voice, which is very clear and strong and well suited to this repertoire... The orchestral... — More…
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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... — More…
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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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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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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: Masonic Works
John Heuzenroeder (tenor), Mario Borgioni (bass), Alexander Puliaev (piano) & Willi Kronenberg (organ)
Die Kölner Akademie Choir and Orchestra, Michael Alexander Willens
The new disc…revels in fine BIS sound and the organ for the songs thus accompanied is more reasonably scaled [than on the older Kertész recording] (and tootles along terrifically). The tenor... — More…
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