Comp Works for Classical Guitar

Product Description

This solo guitar recording by Bradley Colten consists of nineteen solo pieces, and approximately sixty minutes of music. It presents the newly unearthed, complete works for guitar solo by American composer Ernst Bacon.

Review

Classics Today 10/10: It's not every day that a substantial body of guitar music by a single composer seemingly emerges from out of nowhere and enriches the repertoire. But that's the case here, adding up to about an hour's worth of previously unknown short, accessible, instrumentally idiomatic, and musically rewarding works by Ernst Bacon (1898-1990), an unjustly neglected American composer who deserves mention alongside his better known colleagues Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Roy Harris, and Roger Sessions...I have no doubt that many hours of preparation and research inform Bradley Colten's technically immaculate, caring, and gorgeously engineered performances, not to mention his scholarly and well-written annotations. An enjoyable and important release, and not just for guitar fans. --Jed Distler