Guitar Passions: Sharon Isbin & Friends
Sharon Isbin & Friends
Isbin is a superb player with impeccable tone, phrasing, articulation and attack
Guitar Passions: Sharon Isbin & Friends
Sharon Isbin & Friends
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Isbin is a superb player with impeccable tone, phrasing, articulation and attack
About
Described by the Atlanta Journal as "The Monet of classical guitar... a master colorist". This 12 piece recording is released on the Sony Classical label. Grammy award winner Sharon Isbin has been hailed as the pre-eminent guitartist of our time & belongs to the worlds greatest & best selling classical guitarists. This new album is an extraordinary musical exploration that has a definitive Latin American flavour, but the album is focused more on her musical mentors & is produced by multi-Grammy winner David Frost.
She is Winner of Guitar Player magazine’s “Best Classical Guitarist” award, the Madrid Queen Sofia and Toronto Competitions, and was the first guitarist ever to win the Munich Competition.
It is noteworthy that many of the twelve titles on the album are premiere recordings, including the Barbosa-Lima/Passos arrangement of Pixinguinha’s “Carinhoso”, as well as the arrangements by Vai, Jordan, Wilson, Wolff and Lubambo.
Contents and tracklist
- Sharon Isbin (guitar), Stanley Jordan (guitar)
- Sharon Isbin (guitar), Steve Morse (guitar), Romero Lubambo (guitar)
- Sharon Isbin (guitar), Steve Vai (guitar)
- Sharon Isbin (guitar), Romero Lubambo (guitar)
- Sharon Isbin (guitar), Rosa Passos (vocal), Gaudencio Thiago de Mello (percussion)
- Sharon Isbin (guitar), Paul Winter (soprano saxophone), Gaudencio Thiago de Mello (percussion)
Awards and reviews
November 2011
Isbin is a superb player with impeccable tone, phrasing, articulation and attack
November 2011
the purity of friendship trumps that of mere convention every time, and so it proves here as classical guitarist Sharon Isbin teams up 'my guitar heroes, artists that I admire from the classical, rock and jazz worlds, many of whom have been great friends and performing partners', in repertoire ranging from Rodrigo to rock.
