Fabio Zanon, a Brazilian who has lived in London for some years, must now be acknowledged as a member of the highest echelon of living guitarists — an accolade I do not bestow lightly. His playing is marked by fluent technique, great beauty and variety of sound, finely controlled emotional response, and stylistic sensitivity. In short, he is an artist of the highest calibre. The technical idiosyncrasies of the guitar make it hard for the listener to concentrate solely on the quality of the music and its interpretation: Zanon, for whom technical problems seem not to exist, enables one to do this with ease. Superb recording and good annotation complete a memorable issue.
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