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.
- Porro (G. Montana / Arr. G. Colina)
- Allegro (A. Mangoré / Arr. Steve Vai)
- Alfonsina y el Mar (A. Ramirez / Arr. J. Cardoso)
- Sonidos de aquel dia (Q. Sinesi / Arr. S. Jordan)
- ‘Adagio’ from Concierto de Aranjuez (J. Rodrigo / Arr. L. Almeida)
- Chovendo na Roseira (A. Jobim / Arr. C. Barbosa-Lima & R. Lubambo)
- Carinhoso (A. Vianna / Arr. R. Passos & C. Barbosa-Lima)
- Asturias (I. Albeniz)
- Dreamboat Annie (Ann & Nancy Wilson), La Catedral (A. Mangoré )
- Andante religioso
- Allegro solomne
- O Presidente (G. de Mello / Arr. D. Wolf)
Sharon Isbin & Friends