critiques

Bach au luth, la leçon insoumise d’Evangelina Mascardi

un jeu sculptural et grenu, qui pousse loin le ressort quasi orchestral... La polyphonie sonne parfois comme un consort ... La dramatisation n’est pas en reste, elle triomphe ...  Tout ne semble pas écrit tant le jeu laisse sa part à l’inspiration du moment, accueillant d’exquis et impondérables ornements (chapelet de grâce pour la Sarabande BWV 996, qu’on dirait s’évanouir dans les limbes...) - Joker Crescendo Absolu

Crescendo, December 6, Christophe Steyne

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... on se laisse trans­ porter par l'expressivité de son jeu, ainsi que son ap­ proche personnelle de ces pièces tant jouées, à tel point que l'on a l'impression de les redécouvrir ... Un album savoureux qui sonne déjà comme un incontournable.
Guitare classique, September 2022 - Pascal Proust

"... doppio appuntamento con la virtuosa argentina Evangelina Mascardi, star internazionale del Barocco ... un mondo pirotecnico di suoni che Evangelina Mascardi domina alla perfezione"

Musica classica, Milano 2022 July 28 - Luigi Di Fronzo

"... Evangelina Mascardi conjugue la force de la pensée, la perfection des doigts et l’authenticité du cœur : c’est Bach qui se livre en personne ... Les pièces polyphoniques enfin chavirent, sublimes de souplesse et de clarté, telle la Fugue BWV 998, funambule ... Evangelina Mascardi se met à nu, et impose une dimension spirituelle, quasi hypnotique"

CLASSICA, Choc du Mois / Juillet-Août 2022

"Evangelina Mascardi recorded Bach’s lute music with three instruments. All of them are copy of J. C. Hoffmann who was active near Bach. Mascardi’s interpretation is sensitive and rich in nuance. She makes rich sound from her instruments and the character of each dance is well captured. There are many points worthy of note through the entire program."

Record Geijutsu, June 2022 (Critics' Choice)

 "... Mascardi brings the lute and the compositions back to discover or define the unknown. Mascardi does it with this extraordinary engraving ... writes a new significant interpretative page, the result of artistic maturity, critical rethinking, and original instrumental research ..."

STACCATOfy, 2022 July

"... convincingly improvisatory in the introduction and superbly fluent in the subsequent Allegro ... Her command of the ebb and flow of such pieces ... is underpinned by a convincing, understated control of the rythmic structure and makes for continuously satis fying listening..."

BBC Music Magazine, 2022 June - Jan Smaczny

RECOMMENDED Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750), Complete Lute Works - ARCANA A529

.... The works are often unidiomatic, so they require adjustments (including key changes) to be playable on the lute, but one would not be aware of any difficulties when listening to Evangelina Mascardi’s recording. What she has achieved is extraordinary. She is always playing with unwavering musical conviction, as if these works flow out from her and her lute. Anyone who knows this music well will have their own stubborn ideas about how they should be played (as I confess I do), but Mascardi is the sort of player who will persuade you of her particular interpretation.

MusicWeb International, 2022 May, Steven Watson

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Evangelina Mascardi es una de las peregrinas y ya desde hace años ocupa un lugar de privilegio en la escena internacional ... con fraseo exquisito, respiración exacta, musicalidad extrema ... inspiración y justeza en sus ornamentaciones, pertenece por derecho propio al parnaso las mejores grabaciones existentes de estas obras, junto con las de su maestro Hopkinson Smith y las de Jakob Lindberg

el Diario de Buenos Aires, May 2022, Diego Fischerman

Album der Woche: Johann Sebastian Bach - Sämtliche Lautenwerke

.... Unglaubliche Fingerfertigkeit und enorme Musikalität gehen bei ihr Hand in Hand...

rbbKultur, 2022 May - Rainer Baumgärtner