Album Dialoge: J.S. Bach with Dorothee Oberlinger & Edin Karamazov

The way they exquisitely present the music of Johann Sebastian Bach leaves any reluctance or shyness behind. And the fact that the concerts, sonatas and suites in this line-up are not original works by Bach, but rather arrangements, opens their play to the free historical imagination […]. The dreamlike interplay between Oberlinger and Karamazov inevitably stimulates hearing.

Süddeutsche Zeitung, Wolfgang Schreiber, 02.08.2021

Dorothee Oberlinger convinces again with a virtuosic and flowery sound, which combines wonderfully with all its sensuality with the rhythmically fine and dynamically nuanced playing of Edin Karamazov. 

www.pizzicato.lu, 21.06.2021

An album that shows how wonderful Bach's music sounds again and again even in non-original line-ups, when the arrangements are well done and when they are played as masterfully as by Oberlinger and Karamazov.

Hr2, Meinolf Bunsmann, 21.06.2021

Dorothee Oberlinger & Edin Karamazov at Festival de Música Antigua de Sevilla: An explosive Bach

Dorothee Oberlinger and especially Edin Karamazov did not spare a single resource to add color and to get the listener to understand the sense of every measure of this music [...] The duo filled every phrase and every gesture of the music with meaning, in a Bach-faithful interpretation.

Diario de Sevilla, Juan Ramón Lara, 26.03.2021

An intriguingly pictorial evening

This interpretation of Bach offered something new. Dorothee Oberlinger and Edin Karamazov created small dramas in different tones and roles on the stage of the Margravial Opera House Bayreuth. […] The variety of sounds was enormous, and Bach's musical language was suddenly amazingly pictorial. One could have listened to the two artists for hours as they spread the sound spectrum and related it to each other. That was music-making at a very high level.

Zeit für Kultur, Gordian Beck, 08.10.2020

Precious musical gifts: Duo Dorothee Oberlinger & Edin Karamazov

Dorothee Oberlinger and Edin Karamazov are excellent instrumentalists who create arcs with ease and elegance. The mutual co-ordination and mature playing culture of the recorder player and the lutenist are of gripping beauty and provide a teasing factor at the highest level. […] One admires skilful playing, artistic passion and a delightful wealth of masterly designed moods. Huge applause.

www.glarus24.ch, Peter Meier 04.01.2020

Edin Karamazov at Schubertiade Hohenems

After the break, Edin Karamazov surprised with a wonderful arrangement of the Handel cantata "Nel dolce tempio" (...) His subtle improvisations, the English folk songs arranged by Leo Brouwer, as well as his diagonally harmonious settings of the Spanish poet García Lorca tore the audience into raptures. This has been a concert experience with an addictive factor.

Neue Vorarlberger Tageszeitung, Barbara Camenzind, 07.09.2016

Magic sounds of the lute

Only someone like Karamazov can venture with the lute to challenging pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach. In the D Minor Chaconne, a highlight of the violin literature for lute, the artist mastered the variations in the ostinato bass at the same time chordal and polyphonic playing in alternation with arpeggios and virtuoso unanimous passages (...) Karamazov transcribed Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor with mediterranean flair. The playback, with its steady change of movement, the broken chords and the cadenza, was admirable and received huge applause.

Allgäuer Zeitung, 13.08.2010

CD: The Lute is a Song

Edin Karamazov was always a great player – technically superb, musically imaginative and never afraid to take risks (...) Who can resist a fabulous, Eastern-sounding lute version of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor ? Or a lute version of Carlo Domeniconi’s Turkish delight Koyunbaba, normally heard on classical guitar but here given a mind-bending reappraisal on a 14-course Baroque lute?

Gramophone, William Yeoman, 5/2009

Edin Karamazov at Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival

Edin Karamazov presented himself as an instrumentalist whose playing and art of interpretation literally took the breath of the audience. He took the risk of constantly juxtaposing some of the strictly contrapuntal works of the most important master of the Baroque period, J. S. Bach, with contemporary compositions by Cuban Leo Bouwer. Karamazov an ingeniously arranged version of the famous Chaconne of Partita in D minor for solo violin by J.S. Bach, the Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E flat major, and an adaptation of the Toccata and Fugue D minor which demanded from the lutenist a virtuosity that pushes the boundaries of the playable.

shz.de, Ulrich Jess, 08.08.2008

Ein Traum von spanischer Folklore

Die für spanische Musik durchwegs gewöhnliche Besetzung Gesang & Gitarre ist auf dem Album "Con Guitarra" mit einem außergewöhnlichen, berückend musizierenden Duo zu erleben: Núria Rial und Edin Karamazov. Gemeinsam fühlen die katalanische Sopranistin und ihr bosnischer Begleiter jenen spanischen und sephardischen Volksliedern nach, die Manuel de Falla, Enrique Granados und Lorenzo Paloma kompositorisch verarbeitet haben. Die gefeierte Sängerin Rial betört dabei einmal mehr mit ihrer klaren, leuchtenden Stimme. Karamazov, der sich sowohl mit historischem als auch modernem Saiteninstrumentarium einen Namen gemacht hat, besticht durch sein elaboriertes Gitarrenspiel.

ORF, Marie-Theres Himmler, 12.01.2021