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Gramophone Review - Carole Cerasi: Treasures of the Empfindsamkeit

29/1/2015

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Carole has received another great review, this time from Gramophone Magazine. Here are some snippets from the review which can be found online here: Review. 

"Listeners familiar with Cerasi’s 1998 CPE Bach recording on harpsichord and fortepiano (7/00) will find her clavichord interpretations of this composer equally lively and brash. L’Aly Rupalich’s rapid dynamic alterations really rock out here, and so do the left-hand broken octave ostinatos: Billy Joel, take note! All 12 minutes of the Freye Fantasie teem with drama, from the stark and intense slow sections to the wildly dispatched toccata-like passages. Cerasi plays all three movements of the E minor Sonata sensationally, exploiting the instrument’s twangy sonorities at full-tilt.

In Muthel’s Arioso and Variations, Cerasi’s agogic stresses and carefully considered accents intensify embellishments and key isolated single notes in the bass without sounding the least mannered. Although the sustaining power of a fortepiano or concert grand better suits the operatic qualities of Mozart’s B minor Adagio, modern pianists can learn plenty from Cerasi’s shaping of long crescendos and diminuendos, or her judging of silences for maximum effect – qualities that also distinguish the Haydn C minor Sonata. To quote Virgil Thomson approving a friend’s cuisine: ‘This is no kids’ stuff!’" - Jed Distler (Gramophone)

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