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Mahan Esfahani: Time Present and Time Past
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
Concerto Köln
Awards:
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
Esfahani’s playing brings the old face to face with the new.
Mahan Esfahani: Time Present and Time Past
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
Concerto Köln
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Awards:
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
Esfahani’s playing brings the old face to face with the new.
About
Mahan Esfahani’s new album“Time Present and Time Past” is an eclectic programme fusing Baroque with Minimalism – and the first harpsichord album DG has released in over 30 years!
Gramophone Award winner Mahan explores the relationship between two musical genres which are 300 years apart, yet emphasizing its similarities by playing all pieces on period instruments – which has never been done before with the Reich and Gorecki pieces.
Contents and tracklist
- Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
- Recorded: 2014-09-10
- Recording Venue: Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Köln
- Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
- Concerto Köln
- Recorded: 2014-09-10
- Recording Venue: Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Köln
- Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
- Recorded: 2014-09-10
- Recording Venue: Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Köln
- Concerto Köln
- Recorded: 2014-09-10
- Recording Venue: Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Köln
- Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
- Recorded: 2014-09-10
- Recording Venue: Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Köln
- Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
- Concerto Köln
- Recorded: 2014-09-10
- Recording Venue: Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Köln
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Awards and reviews
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Presto Recordings of the YearFinalist 2015
16th May 2015
Esfahani’s playing brings the old face to face with the new.
June 2015
Esfahani sails through with tasteful bravura...[his] firmly centred articulation and rhythm make a plausible case for Steve Reich's Piano Phase as a harpsichord vehicle, even if one misses the cumulative effect of the piano's resonance.
14th May 2015
Equating minimalism and baroque music is not new, but Esfahani, always a sparky and searching player, juxtaposes them here so as to create an unusually direct link...[the Reich] the harpsichord creates new textures and effects, including moments when the music seems to leap out in 3D.
10th May 2015
This collection of harpsichord pieces old and new shows Esfahani at his vibrant and expressive best.
8th May 2015
If you buy only one record of harpsichord music in your life...buy this sensational album...he emerges as a superstar whose musicianship, imagination, virtuosity, cultural breadth and charisma far transcends the ivory tower in which the harpsichord has traditionally been placed.
