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Telemann’s Fantasias, a set of a dozen works dating to 1735, have recently gone through something of a rediscovery and are increasingly being performed by first-rate violinists. O ...
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A couple years ago, violinist Tomas Cotik gave us moving interpretations of Bach’s solo sonatas and partitas in an impressive two-disc set ...
Tomas Cotik has keenly and clearly articulated these modes and moods with deft fingering and technique… These versions are unabashedly driven, backed by a slick technical ability, yielding a bold ...
It is in excellent hands with the violinist Tomás Cotik, also a teacher at the American Portland State University (where this recording was made), because a musician of great size is 'talking' her ...
The Bach that Cotik proposes is printed from an interesting sense of spontaneity, the product of a melodic sensitivity handled with ease and the coherent choice of tempo in each piece. The violinis ...
Cotik’s performance is powerful and technically brilliant, the intonation always flawless, with fearless round, and well-balanced long diminuendos to adapt to the acoustics… Cotik proves to her ...