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Notes and Editorial Reviews
Sharon Isbin, as her previous recordings have made clear, is an exceptionally fine guitarist: her warmly sonorous tone quality (including a beautiful range of colour in quiet playing), her brilliantly crisp articulation and her fine sense of sustained line are no less impressive than her sheer virtuosity. The fiendishly difficult repeated notes of the piece by Bruce MacCombie that gives this collection its title are no problem to her, but the way that she keeps the music moving and building through its juxtaposed sections...is still more admirable. She plays John Duarte's charmingly fresh folk-song setting with fine tone and great affection, brings formidable power to Joan Tower's machine-like Clocks...
Britten's
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masterly Nocturnal...cannot often have been played more beautifully, with every note in the difficult second and fourth variations unerringly in place, the long lines unbroken by awkward stretches. The sixth variation (marked ''dreaming'') is serenely lovely.... Dowland's melody, emerging magically from the preceding ''Passacaglia'', is exquisitely played... The guitar-playing is astonishing throughout; the best music-making here is in Walton's Bagatelles, whose geniality and wit Isbin captures splendidly, without any neglect of their warm lyricism. The recording is immaculate.
-- Michael Oliver, Gramophone [7/1994]
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Works on This Recording
1.
Nightshade Rounds by Bruce MacCombie
Performer:
Sharon Isbin (Guitar)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1979; USA
Date of Recording: 1993
Venue: Studio M, Minnesota Pub Radio, St Paul
Length: 10 Minutes 6 Secs.
2.
Clocks by Joan Tower
Performer:
Sharon Isbin (Guitar)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1985; USA
Date of Recording: 1993
Venue: Studio M, Minnesota Pub Radio, St Paul
Length: 9 Minutes 7 Secs.
4.
Nocturnal after John Dowland, Op. 70 by Benjamin Britten
Performer:
Sharon Isbin (Guitar)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1963; England
Date of Recording: 1993
Venue: Studio M, Minnesota Pub Radio, St Paul
Length: 17 Minutes 53 Secs.
7.
Bagatelles (5) for Guitar by Sir William Walton
Performer:
Sharon Isbin (Guitar)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1972; England
Date of Recording: 1993
Venue: Studio M, Minnesota Pub Radio, St Paul
Length: 13 Minutes 54 Secs.
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A must-have album!!!! May 7, 2014
By Dr. Mitchell Gurk (Spencer, MA) See All My Reviews
"We never stop listening to this great recital. The top guitarist with a cohesive and lovely modern program. Extremely rewarding!!!"
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