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"Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach had an incredibly vivid imagination, which resulted in music that one mean critic said had "the too-easy surprises of a style where anything can happen". Now his vision has found a new voice in the wonderfully acerbic, crisp, perky textures of the tangent piano, mingling harpsichord, fortepiano and harp-like sounds. The veteran Alexei Lubimov draws the maximum in sprightly vitality from his replica of a 1794 instrument".

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"Midt mellem cembalo og hammerklaver finder man det sjældne instrument tangentflyglet. En af de mange klavertyper, der blev bygget i slutningen af 1700-tallet ... Man skal absolut under sig selv en tur i den tidsmaskine, det er at høre musikken af Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach spillet på tangentflygel af Alexei Lubimov ... C.P.E. Bachs klaverværker er yderst ekspressive, nærmest grænsesøgende ... spænder fra dvale til flossede nerver ... Alt sammen forstærket af det lille tangentflygel, som i hænderne på Lubimov forkorter vejen fra tanke til udsagn".

"Instrumental choice: If CPE's music represents a synthesis of old and new, the piano exhibits similar qualities with a palette that can resemble a fortepiano squaring up to a clavichord with attitude ... Lubimov owns every exquisitely calibrated nuance ... A bouquet, too to the engineers who capture everything with such vibrant immediacy. Nothing short of a revelation".