Tomás Cotik, Martingale Ensemble, Ken Selden – Piazzolla: Buenos Aires (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Tomás Cotik, Martingale Ensemble, Ken Selden – Piazzolla: Buenos Aires (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:02:14 minutes | 1,86 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos Records

Astor Piazzolla’s Nuevo tango transcends categories and represents an amalgam of international influences. All the arrangements in this album are of instrumental works that Piazzolla composed for his Quinteto Nuevo Tango. Most prominent is the Vivaldi-inspired Las cuatro estaciones porteñas (‘The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires’) reimagined in concerto style for solo violin and string orchestra by Leonid Desyatnikov. The seven other companion pieces, arranged by Ken Selden, use printed sources for structure but incorporate improvisations transcribed from original recordings made by Piazzolla and his band. On this, his third Piazzolla album for Naxos, internationally recognised violinist Tomás Cotik pays homage to his birth city of Buenos Aires.

Tomás Cotik’s album Piazzolla – Legacy (Naxos 8573789), featuring his own arrangements of music by his countryman, was nominated for an International Classical Music Award.

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Tomas Cotik – J.S. Bach: Cello Suite Nos. 1-6, BWV 1007-1012 (Arr. for Violin by Tomás Cotik) (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Tomas Cotik – J.S. Bach: Cello Suite Nos. 1-6, BWV 1007-1012 (Arr. for Violin by Tomás Cotik) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:04:30 minutes | 2,30 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Centaur Records, Inc.

Tomas Cotik Violinist Cotik keeps active performing as a soloist and as part of the Delray String Quartet, and as a teacher.

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Tomás Cotik – Telemann: 12 Fantasias for Solo Violin, TWV 40:14-25 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Tomás Cotik – Telemann: 12 Fantasias for Solo Violin, TWV 40:14-25 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:02:20 minutes | 1,87 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Centaur Records, Inc.

Georg Philipp Telemann wrote a huge body of music, with many great pieces. The 12 Fantasias for Violin Solo stand out among his greatest. Violinist Tomás Cotik, who has made other exceptionally well-received recordings for Centaur Records, turns in magnificent performances of these masterpieces. Hailed by Michael Tilson Thomas as “an excellent violinist,” Tomás Cotik is internationally recognized as a soloist, chamber musician, and professor. A much sought-after recording artist, Dr. Cotik has released fifteen recordings for Naxos and Centaur Records, which have received over three million streams and more than two hundred enthusiastic reviews from the international press. Committed to passing on his passion for music, Dr. Cotik is the violin professor at Portland State University.

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