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Browse: Michael Alexander Willens (conductor)
This page lists all recordings conducted by Michael Alexander Willens.
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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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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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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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Mozart: Complete Piano Concertos
Ronald Brautigam, Peter Hanson, Marie-Luise Hartmann, Albert Brüggen, Alexei Lubimov, Manfred Huss, Carolyn Sampson, Michael Alexander Willens
Kölner Akademie, Haydn Sinfonietta Wien, Michael Alexander Willens, Manfred Huss
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