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Tomás Cotik tackles these pages with a great sense of style, exhibiting a truly expressive performance in slow movements…and a very solid technique in rapid and virtuosic episodes.
GBOPERA
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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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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
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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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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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These are exactly what you would expect from Cotik–tasteful and well played.
American Record Guide
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recreating the visceral charge of Piazzolla’s legendary quintet concerts and recordings
South Florida Classical Review
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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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I was immediately impressed by their virtuosity and also their understanding of Piazzolla’s music. I was anxious to see them perform in person
Gary Burton
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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