Mika Vayrynen - Bach: The French Suites 1: 3, Praeludium In B Minor & Passa (CD)

Release Date: 01/01/12

'Väyrynen returns with another earenchanting romp through Bach, happily demolishing all the old signposts and charting n

'Väyrynen returns with another earenchanting romp through Bach, happily demolishing all the old signposts and charting new routes over this well-travelled territory. His accordion, applying different colours and weights to the various strands of a contrapuntal argument, brings an unexpected richness to the textures at the same time as it makes them crystal-clear. [...] Mind you, the accordion could also wash dishes, walk dogs and change babies' nappies and it wouldn't make a blind bit of difference to Bach: it's because the instrument is here in the hands of a superb musician, whose inexhaustible musical insights are on a par with his astonishing technical ability, that this music reveals its unsuspected reserves of elation and calm fulfilment. Mika Koivusalo has captured it all in immediate and natural recorded sound. It says 'Vol. 1′ on the cover - hooray! Grab this one and the Goldbergs in the meantime.'Martin Anderson / International Record Review