This 1992 recording by American guitarist Eliot Fisk is among the fine series of releases by the defunct MusicMasters label rescued by the British Nimbus imprint. It falls into the category of strong and definitely crowd-pleasing recordings that potential buyers should nevertheless sample well; it's not to everyone's taste. Playing Vivaldi on the guitar (he wrote no music for the instrument) is not an issue; it's been done many times before, and as Fisk puts it in the interview-format booklet (in English only), "A Baroque ...
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This 1992 recording by American guitarist Eliot Fisk is among the fine series of releases by the defunct MusicMasters label rescued by the British Nimbus imprint. It falls into the category of strong and definitely crowd-pleasing recordings that potential buyers should nevertheless sample well; it's not to everyone's taste. Playing Vivaldi on the guitar (he wrote no music for the instrument) is not an issue; it's been done many times before, and as Fisk puts it in the interview-format booklet (in English only), "A Baroque performer had so many plucked instruments to choose from." His transcriptions from lute or mandolin to guitar are pretty straightforward, and he's a technically superb player. He outlines some of the procedures he uses in the booklet; one is adding bass lines, which gives a lovely shadowy quality to the famous middle movement of the Concerto for lute and orchestra in D major, RV 93 (track 8). Some of the performances, however, go a bit beyond simple adaptation. Fisk's phrasing is...
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