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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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another outstanding solo disc on Bach The Six Suites…Cotik’s customary details and insightful booklet essay adds to a fascinating release.
The WholeNote
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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
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conviction, commitment, diplomacy, and character
The Strad
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With a broad and balanced sound and great technical ability, Cotik displays well-articulated phrases, with mood contrasts, and an individualized treatment…This version of Cotik is exuberant in its beauty and greatly inspired creativity.
Sonograma
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It is in excellent hands with the violinist Tomás Cotik… because a musician of great size is ‘talking’ here, as witnessed by his earlier recordings, which extend from Telemann, Bach and Schubert to Piazzolla. Thanks to the idiomatic touch, Cotik really makes this music swing, but he also knows how to hit the lyricism in the slow parts. This is ‘entertainment’ on a high level
Opus Klassiek
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Tomás Cotik, whose technical and expressive abilities, already highlighted in other reviews of his CDs, are confirmed here and indeed enhanced respectively in the agility present in these scores, which he effortlessly surpasses with clarity of sound, and in the beautiful tone he displays in the more lyrical passages.
GBOPERA
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a musician who prepares thoroughly and has great respect for the music he performs
The Palm Beach Arts Paper
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I am happy to hear such musical polish and enthusiasm for some of my favorite pieces to play.
American Record Guide
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His sound is treated like a true craftsman, with just the right vibrato, intensity and dynamics controlled to the millimeter, transparency of layers, and a unique color for each string. It’s a commendable effort towards a new musical identity.
Ritmo