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Reviewer:
‘The
Passinge mesures roams through England's musical landscape around the time
of Shakespeare, John Donne and Sir Thomas More … these works have sometimes
been handled as trifles or decorative miniatures, but Iranian-American
harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani treats them as profoundly expressive and
introspective works. Here measured, there free, his readings highlight the
ebb and flow of their poetry and prose; phrases are rhetorically
articulated. Esfahani’s muscular technique enhances the robust rhythms of
popular dances like the galliard, jig and romanesca, and his response to
Byrd’s hexachord fantasy is visceral rather than cerebral’
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