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The new Labor release from the great Uruguayan guitarist Eduardo Fernández ranges from the great masters of South American music classical and folk to the Beatles and George Gershwin. According to Fernández, no instrument is better qualified than the guitar, with its double citizenship, to cross the borders between popular, folk and classical music. And no musician is better positioned to make the point than this enormously talented guitarist. His recording is both a personal homage to the freedom to cross borders and a celebration of the instrument that makes it possible. From the great folk guitarist-composers of Argentina, Brazil and Colombia to modern masters like the Brazilian Heitor Villa-Lobos, the Argentinian Alberto Ginastera and the Cuban Leo Brouwer, from the guitarist s own arrangements of the Beatles to Brower's evocation of Afro-Cuban ritual to duet arrangements and performances of Gershwin and Ginastera by Carlos Barbosa-Lima, Fernández shows everywhere the kind of mastery, ease and command of a wide range of idioms that tears down borders and fences. Fernández was born in Uruguay in 1952 and began studying the guitar at the age of 7. His recorded repertoire is phenomenal; 31 recordings are currently listed for companies such as Erato, Denon, Arte Nova, Oehms Classics and English Decca, a label for which he has made 18 recordings. He has recorded Bach lute suites, music of Luciano Berio, most of Paganini s music for guitar and violin, romantic works for guitar and guitar duets.