The combination of interpretative flair and meticulous scholarship may be an uncommon one, but it’s very much a hallmark of Mahan Esfahani’s playing. His ongoing, widely praised, Bach series demonstrates a seemingly inexhaustible abundance of both as it reaches one of the landmarks of the keyboard repertoire: Book 1 of the ‘48’.
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‘The latest volume in Mahan Esfahani’s voyage through Bach’s harpsichord music arrives at one of the key works of the whole keyboard repertoire … with an interpretation that emphasises [the music ...
‘Such a satisfying harpsichord sound—Mahan Esfahani playing a modern copy of an early eighteenth-century German double-manual instrument and approaching the first book of Bach’s Well-tempered Clavi ...
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‘Such a satisfying harpsichord sound—Mahan Esfahani playing a modern copy of an early eighteenth-century German double-manual instrument and approaching the first book of Bach’s Well-tempered Clavi ...
The Guardian