Johann Wilhelm Wilms: The Piano Concertos, Vol. 2

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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

Record Review

17th December 2022

Record of the Week
International Classical Music Awards

2024

Nominated - Concerto

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Wilms: Piano Concerto in F major, Op. 32

Work length25:38

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$6.45

$8.75

Ed. R. Brautigam
Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)
Kölner Akademie
Michael Alexander Willens

I. Allegro

Track length13:40

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$3.85

$5.25

II. Adagio

Track length5:14

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$1.30

$1.75

III. Rondo

Track length6:44

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$1.30

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Wilms: Piano Concerto in E flat major, Op. 55

Work length33:01

Album only

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$12.25

Ed. R. Brautigam
Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)
Kölner Akademie
Michael Alexander Willens

I. Adagio - Allegro

Track length17:44

Album only

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$7.00

II. Adagio

Track length6:15

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

III. Rondo

Track length9:02

$1.50

$2.60

$3.50

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Born in the vicinity of Cologne, only two years after and some sixty km distant from Beethoven, Johann Wilhelm Wilms was once a musical force to be reckoned with. In Amsterdam, where he lived from the age of 19, his music was actually performed more frequently than Beethoven's at one period, and his orchestral works were played in such musical centers as Leipzig. Besides chamber music and solo sonatas, Wilms composed several symphonies and concertos, among them piano concertos for his own use. But already during his lifetime Wilms began to retreat from the public eye and by the time of his death in 1847, he was remembered almost exclusively as the composer of the then national anthem. In time for the 250th anniversary of Wilms' birth, Ronald Brautigam has edited the five extant piano concertos by 'the Dutch Beethoven'. A first volume (BIS-2504) with the three earlier concertos has been released, earning a five star review in BBC Music Magazine for 'performances of lightness and transparency, matched by the recording's clarity.' On this second and final instalment, with Concertos Nos 4 and 5, Ronald Brautigam again receives spirited support from the Kölner Akademie and Michael Alexander Willens.

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February 2023

The Cologne-based period instrument ensemble responds to Michael Alexander Willens’s insightful direction with affectionate warmth and incisive attentiveness. Roland Brautigam, meanwhile, deploys his customary fleet-fingered sorcery and energising élan, ensuring that, even at his most pedestrian, Wilms’s generously proportioned ideas take wing.

March 2023

With subtle control of rhythm and dynamics, Ronald Brautigam (who has co-edited the concertos) spins an eloquent singing line in cantabile melodies and ensures that Wilms’s gracefully rippling passagework never sounds mechanical.

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