Mahan Esfahani In Recital on Harpsichord
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Esfahani combines 'ancient' with 'modern' 20th-century Japanese Toru Takemitsu dreams melancholically in his atmospheric Rain Dreaming. Poul Ruders is very up-to-date with Quick Step Rag, completed in 2023... He wrote it especially for Esfahani, who plays a pair of Bach pieces by father and son. As clear, structured, and beautifully organized as father Johann Sebastian composed, son Carl Philipp Emanuel is loose and imaginative. The latter thus reacted somewhat to his father's 'learnedness' without losing respect for him, by the way. J.S.'s suites may be called 'English', but Bach was guided more by the French harpsichord style and also that of the French lute players.
— excerpt from Muziekgebouw Eindhoven