"The millennium was a good year in the life of Martha Masters, her prestigious first prize in the Guitar Foundation of America Competition being followed by a winning performance in the famous Andres Segovia International Guitar Competition. That led to a series of concerts around the United States, and a contract to record an album for Naxos. She has certainly not chosen the 'quick fix' easy route to popular acclaim, her program being a nicely balanced mix of Bach's famous Suite in E with the comparative rarity of Bryan Johanson's Variations on a Finnish Folk Song. Her cosmopolitan taste is supported by playing of outstanding skill, the razor-sharp unanimity between hands ensuring absolute precision even when the music is hurtling by. As an intro to her playing try Sor's animated Variations on track 12, a superb pageant of guitar colours and finger dexterity. Is there a lack of stylistic difference between Bach and the 20th century of Alexandre Tansman and Johanson? Well maybe, but that's being a bit picky, and I would happily swap it for her complete technical assurance and ability to shape music into long paragraphs. The recording is to the same immaculate standard that we have come to expect from this source."
- David's Review Corner


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