The exuberant vitality of Bach’s toccatas—works which the young composer probably wrote to demonstrate his own brilliance and technique as a performer—here provides the perfect showcase for the interpretative flair of Mahan Esfahani.
BBC Music Magazine‘Just listen to the freedom he finds, the invention, the ornamentation, and the sound of quite an unusual instrument … there’s more than a hint of the huge Pleyel instruments Wanda Landowska used ...
‘I wholly recommend this disc not just for its well-argued and committed performances of these mysterious works, but also for the insights into the performer’s continuing dialogue between ‘authenticit ...