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Title: Amazing technique, horrible interpretation
Review: A vinyl album from 1986 or so featuring Eliot Fisk, offered two of the 24 pieces featured on this CD. Fisk played them - as well as the rest of the works on that album - brilliantly. It was inspiring. It was everything you wanted and expected Paganini's music to be. The younger Fisk was definitely a master-guitarist worth watching closely.No one can say what happened since then, except for the evident increase in "speed" and decrease in quality of interpretation. Mr. Fisk seems to believe "wowing" his audiences with speed is everything. To the point that no one notices he blurs so many notes it sounds like an amplified bee's buzz in a cathedral. So be it, he also wins the Indianapolis 500 as far as I'm concerned. If that's what you like, go for this CD. If you like intelligent musical interpretations, spend your money elsewhere. One star, because with an artist of Fisk's stature one should expect much better, and because you can't give zero stars.
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