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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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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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One imagines the Nuevo tango master would be as captivated as any listener by such exquisite performances.
TEXTURA
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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
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we are treated to Cotik’s masterclass in Baroque performance technique and interpretation
sakennedymusic.com
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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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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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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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conviction, commitment, diplomacy, and character
The Strad
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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