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- Summary: The mandolin is used on the first of two releases of Johann Sebastian Bach's violin works written in 1720 by former bluegrass musician.
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- Record Label: Nonesuch
- Genre(s): Classical, Chamber Music
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Aug 19, 2013This is an impressive job by a child-prodigy instrumentalist who has accomplished the very difficult task of continuing to challenge himself in productive ways as an adult.
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Aug 9, 2013Bach: Sonatas and Partitas Volume 1 is beautifully played and uplifting to listen to from beginning to end.
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Aug 9, 2013Whether the second volume expands on this achievement is unlikely, but Thile now must be considered--along with Bela Fleck--as one of the contemporary masters of the mandolin, exercising his powers across multiple genres.
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Aug 9, 2013The dazzling deftness of his fingering in the Presto and Double Presto sections evokes a kind of giddy delirium and his feathery technique wrests the tenderest of emotions from the second Sonata's Andante.
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Aug 9, 2013Even the most ardent of mandolin or Thile enthusiasts will find that taking involves a level of attentiveness far from casual. But for those willing to take the dive, this LP will prove to be a wonderfully defamiliarizing experience, both for the bluegrass and the art music fan.
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UncutOct 10, 2013Thile is in a different class to the aspirational dabbling of contemporary music's most famous interpreter of Dowland, Sting. [Nov 2013, p.79]