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Sharon Isbin - Nightshade Rounds


Release Date: 09/10/2002 
Label:  Erato   Catalog #: 45024   Spars Code: DDD 
Composer:  Bruce MacCombie,  Joan Tower,  John Duarte,  Benjamin Britten,   ... 
Performer:  Sharon Isbin
Number of Discs: 1 
Recorded in: Stereo 
Length: 1 Hours 2 Mins. 

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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 Read more 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. 
3.
English Suite for Guitar, Op. 31: no 2, Folk Song by John Duarte
Performer:  Sharon Isbin (Guitar)
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1963-1965; England 
 Date of Recording: 1993 
Venue:  Studio M, Minnesota Pub Radio, St Paul 
Length: 4 Minutes 20 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. 
5.
Preludes (3) for Piano: no 1 in B flat major, Allegro ben ritmato e deciso by George Gershwin
Performer:  Sharon Isbin (Guitar)
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1926; USA 
 Date of Recording: 1993 
Venue:  Studio M, Public Radio, St. Paul, Minn. 
Length: 1 Minutes 47 Secs. 
Notes: Transcribed: Carlos Barbosa-Lima 
6.
Preludes (3) for Piano: no 2 in C sharp minor, Andante con moto e poco rubato by George Gershwin
Performer:  Sharon Isbin (Guitar)
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1926; USA 
 Date of Recording: 1993 
Venue:  Studio M, Minnesota Pub Radio, St Paul 
Length: 4 Minutes 1 Secs. 
Notes: Transcribed: Carlos Barbosa-Lima 
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!!!" Report Abuse
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