Bach: Italian Concerto & French Overture
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
Since for Esfahani any performance starts from a position where everything is freshly, indeed forensically reconsidered, ClavierÜbung II offers particularly rich pickings...Altogether, a challenge...
Bach: Italian Concerto & French Overture
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
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Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
Since for Esfahani any performance starts from a position where everything is freshly, indeed forensically reconsidered, ClavierÜbung II offers particularly rich pickings...Altogether, a challenge...
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Mahan Esfahani again highlights the radicalism, virtuosity—and sheer joyousness—of the works recorded here, both in his playing and in his uncommonly engaging booklet notes.
Contents and tracklist
I. Ist eine Schmeichelung der Freunde, um denselben von seiner Reise abzuhalten: Arioso (Adagio)
Track length2:08
II. Ist eine Vorstellung unterschiedlicher Casuum, die ihm in der Fremde könnten vorfallen
Track length1:23
IV. Allhier kommen die Freunde (weil sie doch sehen, dass es anders nicht sein kann) und nehmen Abschied
Track length0:42
Awards and reviews
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International Classical Music Awards2023Winner - Baroque Instrumental
October 2022
Since for Esfahani any performance starts from a position where everything is freshly, indeed forensically reconsidered, ClavierÜbung II offers particularly rich pickings...Altogether, a challenge to complacency that can’t be ignored.
Awards Issue 2022
This is edgy, hyper-attentive playing, with rhythmic figures etched with a sharp, swift and precise stylus.
27th August 2022
The double question of what is authentic and what is musical is at the heart of Esfahani’s always lively and inexhaustible interrogations...The colours he brings to all the works here – including the capriccio in B flat “on the departure of his beloved brother” – make us revel anew in the sonic capabilities of the harpsichord.
International Classical Music Awards 2023
Esfahani, the indefatigable missionary of the harpsichord, has added another brilliant recording to his ever-growing discography...Esfahani brings his habitual attentive playing to the Italian Concerto, French Overture and last but not least the wonderfully melodious Capriccio sopra la lontananza del suo fratello dilettissimo.
