I decided to purchase this CD because I was so impressed by "Hemispheres", Lily's latest recording! This is incredible guitar playing! This is the most astonishingly artistic performance of "Koyunbaba" I have ever heard! Lily is a great artist!
February 14, 2007 |  | Beautiful Music Elegantly Played |  |
My wife's cousin attended a concert by Ms. Afshar and bought this album for me. She knew I loved guitar music and liked to hear new performers and new melodies.
I have played this album over again and again. It offers serious music that functions equally well as background and music closely attended to. To the largely Spanish, Latin American and Italian repertoire (Albeniz, Domeniconi, Ponce, Granados, etc.), Afshar adds her own arrangement of five lovely Persian ballads. It would be wrong to say that they are the high spot of the program because the quality of music in this disc is uniformly high throughout.
Late one night, seeking to calm down after a stressful day, I played this record by Afshar. I followed it with John O'Dette on lute playing Dowland's, and then Zanon playing Villa Lobos's guitar pieces. Who was best? All were first rate.
September 17, 2004This is the ultimate makeout album. If you want to score with a cultured girl, this is the disc to buy.
April 6, 2004Wow!, Ms. Afshar's interpretation of Domeniconi's Koyunbaba is simply wonderful! There is more expression, more emotion, more "Easternness" to her version than to that of Antigoni Goni, or of John Williams (on "The Guitarist"). You haven't really heard Koyunbaba until you've heard this one.
Ms. Afshar's five Persian ballads are evocative, and only available on this CD. As a plus for guitarists, Mel Bay has issued the score of all five.
This CD is music to be enjoyed! June 29, 2001
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This CD is one of my most priced CD's in my collection of classical guitar songs. Truly remarkable work by Dr. Afshar.
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