TrevorPinnock

Press

• Bach: Partitas

  recording

  Oct 2023

  • Und Trevor Pinnock, mittlerweile 76 Jahre jung, befeuert die exzellenten, mit kanadischen Gästen angereicherten Solisten der Royal Academy zu einer ungemein frischen, tänzerisch beschwingten, quicklebendigen Performance, die swingt und groovt, als weilte Bach, der Urheber, noch unter uns. Hier beginnt das Universum zu tanzen und wir stellen erneut fest: J.S. Bach ist und bleibt der modernste Komponist aller Zeiten.

    • Rondo Magazine
    • 20 October 2023

  • Bach arrangements are nothing new, but Thomas Oehler’s “reimagining” of three of the keyboard partitas opens up unexpected new soundworlds. Trevor Pinnock presides over an elite ensemble, joined by flute, oboe, cor anglaise, and bassoon. He encourages all their modern colors while insisting on historically sensitive phrasing and articulation, crisply clarifying Bach’s complex dialogue in the fugal Gigue of Partita no. 5

    • Apple Music

• Bach: Goldberg Variations

  recording

  Apr 2021

  • Pinnock, known for his devotion to early music, has turned up a splendid alternative to the composer’s original keyboard work that works just about perfectly. While some tempos allow us to luxuriate a little more in the composer’s richly expressed ideas, it is difficult to think of anyone disliking what is heard here. I’d even extend my welcome and say I absolutely love this new dimension of Goldberg listening...Do not under any circumstance miss this.

    • American Record Guide
    • 26 April 2021

• Well Tempered Clavier Book I

  Recording

  Jul 2020

  • The quality of these performances is immediately apparent in the opening prelude and fugue, the former unaffectedly simple and the latter beautifully pointed with a clear sense of structure and an attractive hint of inequality. There are also moments of exhilarating virtuosity as in the superbly limpid Presto in the second prelude and the life-enhancing lightness of the B flat major Prelude.

    • BBC Music Magazine
    • 20 July 2020

  • Pinnock leads us through Bach’s exploration of all 24 major and minor keys with unerring style, impeccable technique and a youthful sense of wonder...for all-embracing readings that, like the music itself, will stand the test of time, Pinnock now goes straight to the top of my list.

    • Limelight Magazine
    • 07 July 2020

• Beethoven: Violin Concerto

  Kammerorchester Basel, Vilde Frang

  Oct 2017

  • Mit Beethovens Violinkonzert in D-Dur änderte sich der Charakter der Musik fundamental. Auch mit modernem Instrumentarium vermochte Trevor Pinnock als Experte historisch informierten Musizierens eine Klangsprache im Sinne des Komponisten umzusetzen, unauffällig in der Tempowahl. Die Ansprache war direkt, nie grob, die Artikulation leicht, die Dynamik sorgfältig

    • Backtrack
    • 31 October 2017

• 70th birthday concert

  National Centre for Ealt Music

  Dec 2016

  • The remarkable aspect was not how small the ensemble sounded, but how large: as Pinnock built up the momentum of the fifth Brandenburg’s famous, extended cadenza you were put in mind that Bach treated the harpsichord the way Jimi Hendrix treated amplifiers, as if willing them to explode.

    • The Guardian
    • 13 December 2016