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Michael Alexander Willens

  • Weber Piano and Orchestral Music in Good Hands

    Feb 24th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, Classical music, Concerto, Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens, Romantic period, Ronald Brautigam

    In a way, I suppose, this release was the next logical step. Pianist Ronald Brautigam and the Kölner Akademie have already recorded the complete piano concertos of Mozart, Beethoven, and Mendelssohn. Presenting those of Carl Maria von Weber helps fill out that timeline. Von Weber was a younger contemporary of Ludwig van Beethoven, and his music […]

  • Homilius Christmas Cantatas beat the rush

    Feb 12th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Baroque music, CD Review, choral music, CPO, Franziska Gottwald, Georg Poplutz, Gottfried August Homilius, Hanna Herfurtner, Kölner Akademie, Mauro Borgioni, Michael Alexander Willens

    This release had me scratching my head. Why was an album of Advent and Christmas music released in February? Most folks (even me) have our Christmas decorations dismantled and packed away for another year. Of course, these cantatas by Gottfried August Homilius don’t really have a Christmassy sound. Homilius wrote in the empfindsamer style, which supplanted the […]

  • Telemann Christmas Oratorios – stellar performances from the Kölner Akademie

    Dec 3rd, 2018 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Baroque music, CD Review, choral music, Classical music, CPO, Georg Philipp Telemann, Georg Poplutz, Holiday music, Joel Urch, Klaus Mertens, Kölner Akademie, Manfred Brul, Michael Alexander Willens, Monka Mauch, Nicole Pieper, Raimonds Spogis

    For Telemann, 1730-31 was the “year of oratorios.” Given the rich musical resources of Hamburg, he wrote a series of oratorios for the liturgical year. Michael Alexander Willens and the Kölner Akademie perform three of these recently rediscovered works, all centered around Christmas. The Baroque oratorio was closely related to opera, and Telemann wrote accordingly. The […]

  • Anton Eberl Emerges from the Shadow of Mozart

    Jun 13th, 2018 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Anton Eberl, CD Review, Classical music, Concerto, CPO, Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens, Paolo Giacometti, Riko Fukuda

    Pianist/composer Anton Eberl was a contemporary of Beethoven and a student of Mozart. Some of Eberl’s works were misattributed to Mozart, and that’s not surprising. As this new release shows, Eberl’s style is quite similar to Mozart’s. But not quite identical (a lot of the misattribution was done by unscrupulous publishers). The two sonatas for […]

  • Carl Abel Symphonies Op. 1 and Op. 4

    Feb 26th, 2018 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Carl Friedrich Abel, CD Review, Classical music, CPO, Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens, Orchestral music

    Carl Abel was a student of Johann Sebastian Bach and a business partner with his son Johann Christian. His music shares some of the qualities of the “London” Bach. The works on this collection come from two publications. Abel’s Opus 1 was published in 1760, his Opus 4 two years later. Both sets feature short, […]

  • The Haydenseque Fantasies of Sigismund Neukomm

    Nov 7th, 2012 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, Classical piano, CPO, Die Kolner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens, orchestral, Sigismund Neukomm

    Sigismund von Neukomm was a student of both Michael and Franz Joseph Haydn. He helped with the production of some of Mozart’s late compositions, and worked with Haydn on the editing and arranging of Haydn’s music. At one point, he even taught Mozart’s son composition. As one might expect, his musical style shares many similarities […]

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