"Oboist Debra Nagy displayed dazzling technique and soulful expressiveness." - Marc Schugold (Rocky Mountain News)
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"Debra Nagy is a baroque oboist of consummate taste and expressivity, with a timbre of mellow woodsiness that explores worlds of nuance." -Donald Rosenberg (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
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"The music of the French baroque is tantalizing, elegant, and often ravishing - all qualities heard in the sound of the baroque oboe, an instrument very much like the human voice in its ability to touch the soul. And in the hands of a fine musician, it can create music that s simply heaven...Debra Nagy is a young American early oboist who is clearly at home playing French baroque music. Her sound and sense of style say it all." - Bernard Gordillo NPR's Harmonia Podcast
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"Baroque oboist Debra Nagy pours luminous expressivity into the music" -Donald Rosenberg (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
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"Nagy, playing with an accomplished ensemble of strings and harpsichord, participated in four out of the five works on the program – spinning out the ubiquitous trills, mordents and turns in the final movement of Janitsch’s Quadro for oboe and strings in G Minor with grace and Član. Especially beautiful was Nagy’s realization (execution) of the improvisational ornaments in the Largo movement of Telemann’s Concerto in A Major for oboe d’amore and strings...Still, it was Nagy’s utter mastery of intonation (her command of pitch in the Siciliano movement of the Telemann Concerto was incredible), as well as carefully balanced dynamic contrasts, that impressed me the most." -David Abrams http://cnycafemomus.com
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"Strong obbligato solos by Debra Nagy added to the delights of the performance." - Joshua Kosman (San Francisco Chronicle)
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"Oboist Debra Nagy's tone is wonderfully rich and buoyant..." - Sabine Kortals (Denver Post)
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"Debra Nagy was [an] elegant soloist." - Donald Rosenberg (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
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"[A] musical polymath" - Jonathan Rhodes Lee (San Francisco Classical Voice)
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