Album Description: Lynn Harting-Ware's most exciting performances are captured here. The programme is an extraordinary blend of traditional large-scale works, such as Sor's Grand Solo with the sophisticated virtuosity of Dowland's most celebratory Fantasia. She plays a group of folksongs, set in a jazz style, with a vocal quality of great beauty. Her own composition, Variations on O Canada! sparkles with an effervescence of true virtuoso writing for the guitar. New musical fare is also to be had in Prelude and Fugue in A minor by J.S.Bach, arranged for guitar by Harting-Ware. Also featured is violinist, James Wallenberg, whose meditative performance in Chama 'the eagle and the plumed serpent'by composer Peter Ware, is awesomely otherworldly. This piece alone is a rarity, with such precise ensemble playing being just the foundation for an extremely expressive duet. The American Variations, a 5-movement duet, pays tribute to Blues, Rock, Bebop and Zuni Indian music. Robert Rollin captures these American styles with a quirky contemporary style. Canadian composers Aris Carastathis (from Greece)and Clifford Crawley (from England) make their first contribution to the guitar repertory with Four Vignettes and Phantasia.
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Aris Carastathis is an Associate Professor of Theory and Composition at Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario. In 1995 he was admitted as an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre. A composer of over fifty works, he has received numerous commissions including the Baton Rouge Symphony Chamber Orchestra and the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra. His works have been performed in Canada, the United States, England, and Germany. Some of his works are available through Conners Publications.
Dr. Carastathis is a founding member of and sits on the executive board of New Music North (http://www.geocities.com/newmusicnorth/), a group dedicated to the advancement and public performance of new and recent compositions.
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