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“The final two tracks form an arresting conclusion. Sollima’s Silk Road piece is a virtuoso percussive take on a folk dance that Block dispatches with fierce vitality. He then returns to Bach (Sarabande from Suite No 1), but plays it pizzicato with an unerring jazzman’s feel.”
Read More“What makes the experience so compelling is how naturally each track fits perfectly with the next, even though the ideas and technical requirements may be radically dissimilar. It can be momentarily disorientating, as when the pizz-rich first movement of Ligeti’s Sonata follows the pizz-less Prelude to Bach’s First Suite, but Block’s easy, flowing technique makes each track a universe in itself, including the premiere recording of Sollima’s ferocious tour de force Citarruni, a Silk Road commission from the Taranta Project.”
Read More“He plays the fourth movement of Saygun’s Partita with richly intoned authority and performs Giovanni Sollima’s Citarruni, from the Taranta Project, a Silkroad commission that proves to be a rocky supercharged opus, percussive and exciting.”
Read MoreMIKE BLOCK | Echoes of Bach | #3 Billboard Traditional Classical Albums
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