New Music with Guitar, Vol. 12 <br> BRIDGE 9520American guitarist David Starobin's newest recording includes five works dedicated to the Grammy nominated virtuoso. Included on the recording are two song cycles with Starobin's duo partner, baritone Patrick Mason, a sonata for guitar and piano, and a new work for violin and guitar. The recording also includes a never before released solo recording that Starobin made in 1975. The New Music with Guitar series was begun in 1981 with Bridge Records

performed by Donald Berman

and Moments Musicaux

LOpéra de la Bastille in Paris

with similar uses of repetition and recurrence

A Laurentian Overture (1951)

led by American conductor

Pride of place must go to the premiere recording of Roy Harris's Whitman setting

Sonata for Violin and Piano

gor'ko rydaia (Youth

Performances are uniformly excellent

The progression of Scriabin’s work as embodied in his ten piano sonatas chronicle the development and unfolding of a unique voice which to this day sings unlike any other in musical history

Malcolm McDonald writes that "Carter is not far short of his own centenary