On PIAZZOLLA: Buenos Aires violinist Tomás Cotik pays homage to his birth city with his third Piazzolla CD for Naxos, accompanied by the Martingale Ensemble under Ken Seldon
The central work on the CD…
The arrangements…allow Tomas Cotik to shine with their blends of angular and virtuosic melodic segments that fly by, while also allowing plenty of rich, lyrical phrasing. The performances here allow …
Our beloved Bach Suites continue to overflow the world of the cello, where they certainly aren't confined! It's worth noting that the composer himself set the tone by creating a version in G minor for…
The album's most haunting setting is Soledad (1968), which is distinguished by an exceptionally sensitive performance by Cotik. Artful restraint is shown too in the way he resists the urge to embellis…
His playing is very poised and truly accomplished...Las cuatro estaciones porteñas...are attractive and interesting pieces with the spirit of tango strongly present but fused with the essence of baroq…
Argentine native Tomás Cotik adds to his reputation as one of the supreme masters of the bow in this new release of J. S. Bach’s Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello senza Basso... With no disrespect to…
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, whic…
Grandiose Piazzolla recordings with Tomás Cotik
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 …