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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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Concerto
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The Kölner Akademie is in period instrument guise, and the sound is often suitably thrilling and zippy. — More…
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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... — More…
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Offenbach: Le Violoneux & Le 66
Sandrine Buendia, Pierre-Antoine Chaumien, Armando Noguera, Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens
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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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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... — More…
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For an overall impression of Stamitz’s style here, think of Haydn in one of his feistier moods. The real star of this album, though, is the Le jour variable Symphony, which is like an earthier... — More…
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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. — 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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