These are exactly what you would expect from Cotik--tasteful and well played.
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Telemann: 12 Fantasias for Solo Violin
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Artistic Quality:9
Sound Quality: 9
Here are Telemann’s wonderful solo violin fantasias played by a modern violinist whose style is informed by period-instrument practice. Tomás Cot ...
Any performer's interpretation of the 12 Fantasias for Solo Violin (1735) by Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) demands that the composer's score be honoured and the rendering be personalized by th ...
To his vast discography which includes the names of Schubert, Bach and Telemann himself, Tomás Cotik has added a new recording of some musicological interest. Tomás Cotik tackles these pages with ...
There’s more Baroque violin music from an exact contemporary of Bach on Telemann 12 Fantasias for Violin Solo in supremely satisfying performances by Tomás Cotik (Centaur CRC 3949 tomascotik.com ...
El excelente violinista Tomás Cotik, un buen conocido de Sonograma Magazine, acaba de grabar las egregias 12 Fantasías para violín solo, del compositor alemán Georg Philipp Te ...
Tomás Cotik is a violinist, a professor at Portland State University, and perhaps most important, a scholar whose projects for the Centaur Records label have included complete surveys of the Mozar ...
Tomás Cotik, born in Argentina, has earned himself an enviable international reputation ever since he took a first prize at the National Broadcast Music Competition in his native land in 1997. Cur ...
The twelve fantasies for violin by Telemann are among the few surviving works of this genre from the Baroque period. The designation fantasia alone indicates a freer style than the sonata. However, ...
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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 ...
Recording: ****/****
Performance: ****/****
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 ...
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exceptional…Piazzolla can be played differently than this, but provably not better.
DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE
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this is one of the great Piazzolla discs, and in perfect sound quality, I urge you to buy it.
David Denton for David’s Review Corner
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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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There are so many delightful details to savour that one hardly knows where to begin…a most rewarding Mozart cycle
Gramophone Magazine
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His amazing technical skill and artistic know-how…create an indelible interpretation of Bach’s music…Cotik’s combines impeccable technique and an intuitive artistry to fashion a mesmerizing interpretation of these pieces.
AUDIOPHILE AUDITION
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among the very best Piazzolla albums
David Denton for David’s Review Corner
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unusual depth and broad compass…absolutely brilliant… unmistakable vitality…optimally recorded
Audio Video Club of Atlanta
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The joyful virtuosity and stylish musicianship that Tomas Cotik and Tao Lin brought to their superb cycle of Schubert’s violin-and-piano works for the Centaur label happily permeate their cycle of Mozart’s sonatas
Gramophone Magazine
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Also in the interpretation of Mozart´s sonatas, Cotik´s excellent performance and perfect technique stand out in the particularly brilliant articulations
GBOPERA MAGAZINE
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Overall, these two discs featuring Cotik must be regarded as among the finest performances for their consistent artistry and idiomatic grasp
Classical Net