“Ms. Chulochnikova played it with impressive brilliance, articulating cleanly, with virtuosic double stops, carefully shaping the polyphonic lines, creating an ebb and flow that carried the listener along.” [Bach’s Toccata and Fugue] Classical Sonoma
“…Begelman’s thoughts on Bach meanwhile come not from the (beautifully engineered studio) acoustics of his surroundings but from his own inner obsessings over the private personality who produced these masterpieces. ‘I would like to know what he was thinking about, serenely sipping his beer in the evening’, he muses in his booklet notes. ‘What grief and despair did he experience at the loss of his child? Yet, strict and reserved, Bach looks down at me from the famous Haussmann portrait, barring my way into his inner world’; and if you’ve never had similar imaginings yourself, Begelman’s subsequent readings should lead you down that dream track.
“Werner Pirchner: ein Name und Mensch der die gegenwärtige Musikgeschichte mit seiner ungewöhnlich individuellen, österreichisch-jazzigen Tonsprache redigiert hat und weiterhin zukünftig beeinflussen wird. Das EggnerTrio hat mit der Einspielung Pirchners triologischen Triologie die Möglichkeit einer absolut neuen kammermusikalischen Hörweise eröffnet. Lassen Sie sich verführen in einen Kosmos unerhörter Lebensweisheiten.”
