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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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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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exceptional…Piazzolla can be played differently than this, but provably not better.
DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE
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Cotik makes Kreisler seem almost smarmy, Isabelle Faust almost mannered, and Julia Fischer as though she´s filed down the detail
Fanfare Magazine
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Cotik’s deep knowledge and prodigious technique allow him to make intentional, independent musical decisions without constraint.
Fanfare Magazine
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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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Telemann’s Fantasias…have recently gone through something of a rediscovery and are increasingly being performed by first-rate violinists. One such is Tomás Cotik…The overall feeling that comes through here is of a performer who genuinely enjoys presenting this music.
Infodad
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Supersonic Award winner. Tomas Cotik’s Piazzolla is carnal, passionate and nowhere easy-going. Together with his group he has produced a riveting CD.
Pizzicato
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true treasure…one of the latest gems to emerge from the season
John Terauds – Musical Toronto
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His latest album…may be his finest achievement yet, at least rivalling his 2019 account for that label of Bach’s Complete Sonatas and Partitas. Cotik’s Telemann is impressive on all fronts as a technical achievement that will spur the interest of other performing artists and for a sensual beauty that should appeal strongly to listeners everywhere. Cotik performs all this music, and more, with such style and flair that he almost makes a daunting task seen easy.
Atlanta Audio Club