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The playing is pristine, technically, and the recorded sound clear. This is a highly intelligent project in conception and execution.
Fanfare Magazine
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These versions are unabashedly driven, backed by a slick technical ability, yielding a bold, fleet, forthright ride through the challenging yet rewarding contours of these mixed modes, occasionally dance-infused, and forward-looking Fantasias.
Early Music Review
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Cotik scales Bach’s solo mountain with skill. His intricate yet soulful take is assured without ever being showy.
BBC Magazine
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we can confidently be guided by these sublime interpretations of high musical quality, technically brilliantly executed, and demonstrating an impressive insight into what this music is capable of even in transcribed form… The recording, once again made at Portland State University in Oregon, is again a gem. Cotik has certainly not done things by halves in this regard either, as he also served as the producer and recording engineer
Opus Klassiek
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one comes away from the recording dazzled by Cotik´s musicianship and technique; one is also struck by the agility of his execution, his expert command of tempo and intonation, and his ability to consistently maintain the highest level of performance
TEXTURA
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His interpretation of Bach’s sonatas and partitas his newest album in should add a notch to his reputation as a stellar violinist
NORTHWEST REVERB
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Cotik’s performances throughout are clean, bright and precise… you would be hard-pressed to find a more honest guide than Tomás Cotik.
Palm Beach Arts Paper
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The CD recording is his seventeenth in ten years, yet no sign of fatigue is evident when his passion for the material translates into performances of immense appeal…Cotik invests the material with so much life. Listening to him play is never less than a pleasure, and all twelve pieces are brought vividly and expressively to life.
Textura
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Warmly and sensitively played with beauty of tone, Cotik… captures the essence of Mozart in finely spun tone and sensitive contrasts in dynamics, rhythmic integrity, and clear phrasing. Their deeply felt rendition of this purest of music, from the carefree early sonatas to the more dramatic later opuses, is a model of transparency and genuine emotion.
STRINGS MAGAZINE
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It was clear that the Argentinian-born Cotik has Piazzolla’s music in his blood. It was to be expected that he would be able to exploit everything that these arrangements require technically. But more importantly, he knew how to capture the spirit of the music, from subtle sensuality and longing to fierce passion and supreme virtuosity.
Pizzicato