The Whole Note, Sept. 2024

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 is the now familiar Leonid Desyatnikov concerto arrangement of Las cuatro estaciones porteñas... The remaining seven pieces are all 2021 arrangements by Ken Seldon of pieces that Piazzolla wrote for his Quinteto Nuevo Tango...Transcribed from printed sources but incorporating improvisations from original Piazzolla recordings, they work brilliantly.

Cotik, as usual, is in his element here on a CD of just over an hour of gorgeous playing of captivating music.