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The perfect Guitar Album

Tiara Aronovich | California, USA | 02/15/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This album is undoubtedly a landmark in the instrument's history. A beautiful mix of classical with folk music resulting in this most unique work. Miroslav Tadic is one of the best players I have ever heard."

Good player, Mediocre Production

Sor_Fingers | Boulder, CO USA | 02/15/2007

(3 out of 5 stars)

"There's no doubt that Tadic is a great player. His interpretation on the Bach Suite is fabulous. Good clean artistic guitar playing. His composition skills are great as well as his Suite of "Laments, Dances and Lullabyes" is very exciting and his other shorter pieces are full of surprises as well. That aside, the production of this record really leaves something to be desired. The recording quality is somewhat poor as there is a low hiss of white noise on the record. Also, what was Tadic thinking when put together the program for this disc? There's no continuity on the recording at all. Not that recordings shouldn't have variety, but this is a recording that simply lacks focus. To have Tadic's compositions juxtaposed with a Bach lute work just doesn't seem right, especially because Tadic is largely marketed as a composer/performer. And the last track is a piano piece that Tadic neither composed or performed. That leaves the listener puzzled as to who Tadic truly is. Is this a Tadic recording? Or a guitar recording? Or a piano recording? Nobody can really tell.



Because Tadic is performing his own work on this CD, I am slightly perplexed by his recording particularly of Walk Dance. I both own the published score and the Scott Tennant recording on an LAGQ album, which both coincide quite well. Tadic's recording is very different from the other two sources I have. Now I realize that Tadic is an improviser, but I am puzzled by his rhythmic alterations (sometimes skipping/adding beats) and his omission of the entire arpeggio section in the middle of the piece. It simply seems that Tadic has trouble executing this particular piece which is confusing because his improvisation on it is rock solid and very exciting. I can't speak for the other works as there are no other recordings available, but Scott Tennant's is quite superior to Tadic's.



In spite of it's flaws I would still recommend this recording to anyone interested in Tadic's music. He is truly a unique composer and intriguing player."

Thoughtless production

Redgecko | USA | 02/18/2008

(2 out of 5 stars)

"Besides mine, "Sor Fingers" wrote the only honest review. The rest were obsequious comments by Tadic's fan club and people who don't know the head from the bridge on a guitar. Especially obnoxious was the comment: "WOW, did Tiara Aronovich really write that review?!". Does anyone know (or care) who Tiara Aronovich is? Go ahead and Google his name and you'll see that he (could be a gal with a name like Tiara) is a very minor film score composer who hasn't even make it into Wikipedia or have commerical recordings. You'd have to practically live next door to him to know him. So when this guy/gal says that this is a "landmark recording", it means nothing.



The recording production is among the worst that I've ever seen. Recording a Bach lute suite in the middle of a CD of original works and then trying to justify it, as Tadic does in the liner notes, by saying that Bach's lute suite has an exotic eastern European flavor is lame. It appears to me that Tadic ran out of ideas for composing and performing solo guitar pieces and used the Bach as filler. Lots of players do this; Andrew York's latest recording "Into Dark" being a recent example that comes to mind. The piano solo at the end is a joke! What's it doing there? MA Recordings was looking for a way to market their other CDs and stuck this on the end for that purpose.



The only good news is that the 33 minutes of Tadic's original solo music (about half of the total time), is very good. It's too bad that he ran out of gas and left the job half done. Unfortunately, this is the only CD that Tadic recorded where he did solo work.

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