reviews
"Carole Cerasi captures the seductive volatility
of Jacquet's style to perfection; just listen to the Tocade prelude to
the F major suite. Her playing has an innate elegance which brings this
subtle and occasionally elusive music to vivid life."
BBC Music Magazine
"Cerasi responds [to the music] with rhythmic verve and a sure
feeling for tasteful, appropriate ornament. This is a programme of substance,
played with flair and affection." Baroque CD of the Month
Classic FM Magazine
"Listeners would be much better served by Carole Cerasi's recent
Metronome recording, which is far more sophisticated and still has the
appeal of a 'real' Ruckers...Carole Cerasi's reading is utterly convincing...articulation
is varied without ever becoming fussy...the harpsichord sounds superb."
Early Music Review
"Carole Cerasi once again proves herself a player of taste and
superb technique...a recital of natural flair and discernment...The achievement
is perhaps all the more striking in that this Bach is an especially tricky
customer...Strong artistic instincts are the critical adhesive. Cerasi
has no shortage of these and shows an easy command of the subtlety and
variety in these relatively little-known sonatas...Cerasi executes [the
flamboyant concerto figuration] with nonchalant facility...[She] brings
a colourful theatricality...and a genuine alertness to the outlandish
excursions of the C major Sonata, conveyed with considerable intensity
by the fortepiano...More admirable still is the fluid, unalloyed lyricism
of the slower movements...a highly enjoyable recital from this exciting
young keyboardist."
Gramophone
"Cerasi is a young keyboard player of great flair and musical
imagination...Cerasi's stylishness, her rhythmic imagination and her crisp
articulation make it very winning, and her intelligent programme neatly
charts the way in which CPE Bach gradually extended the boundaries of
keyboard form."
The Guardian
"Equally assured on both the fortepiano and the harpsichord,
Cerasi makes lyrical sense of [CPE] Bach's peculiar music...This disc
is purely pleasurable, the clarity of the performance matched by an admirably
lucid sound quality."
The Independent on Sunday
"It is a tribute to Cerasi's artistry and understanding of
C. P. E. Bach's idiosyncratic idiom that the recital grips the listeners
attention from the very first note and refuses to let go. Whatever the
piece and chosen mode of communication, Cerasi shows herself an interpreter
of remarkable insight...the music of C. P. E. Bach makes for compulsive
listening, and nowhere more so than in Cerasi's fine accounts. This is
a stunning disc. I urge anyone even remotely intrigued to try it."
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"An eloquent tribute to the last of the English virginalists,
with Cerasi on sparkling form...[her] selection of about a third of Tomkins's
extant keyboard pieces effectively showcases all of the genres in which
he composed, as well as demonstrating the excellence and range of her
own technique. Few listeners will fail to be impressed by the fearless
accuracy and panache with which she throws off Tomkins's torrential passagework
and finger-breaking double thirds, but she is sensitive, too, in the slower
pavans and fancies. Like Leonhardt, she manages to achieve a supreme eloquence
in such pieces by the sheer precision and control with which she places
each note, and it is a pleasure just to hear her playing....Another outstanding
disc from this fine young harpsichordist." Editor's choice
Gramophone
"These glorious, fiery, intense performances demand repeated
listening...there's no end of depth...this is easily one of the best harpsichord
CDs I've come across. All in all, this is a triumph, and a joy to listen
to."
Early Music Review
"Carole Cerasi, whose delicacy of touch and impeccable style
is matched by an unparalleled confidence of attack, maps each piece with
due verve, attention and imagination. Sheer delight."
Independent on Sunday
"Continuing an award-winning trail of engaging recorded recitals...Cerasi
gives a thoroughly engrossing account of these masters. This is another
compelling recital by Cerasi dispatched with flair and acute sensibility."
Editor's Choice & Runner-up Gramophone Award 2003
Gramophone
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