By: John Sunier
allace is not only a guitarist, but also composer (all these works are his own) and
baritone. He is a performer on the ancient instrument, the vihuela de mano, and has
had a colorful career - performing early music, blues and avantgarde works. He
describes his mentors as John Dowland and Schubert. This collection is not your
usual classical guitar recital, but demonstrates a fine talent at both composing and
performing and has no dangers of boring sameness. Each of the nine works is
broken up into very short movements, many under one minute length, which give an
almost kaleidoscopic musical view. Some have their own titles which aid in
appreciating the tone-painting. The disc is in a cardboard alternative to the jewel
box and is the simplest and flattest such I have seen - it appears at first as
though there is no CD inside.
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