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...Eliot Fisk...
Classical guitarist Eliot Fisk's recital at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on Sunday featured a slew of technically challenging if not particularly expressive guitar works and transcriptions...
...avid proponent of new music, Fisk brought works ranging from Scarlatti to Rochberg to his program. In doing so, he demonstrated the guitar's unique position as a middle ground between the harpsichord and the violin; the guitar's strings are plucked like the harpsichord's, but it has a fingerboard like a violin. As a result, classical guitarists can create a wide variety of effects culled from the repertoires of both instruments...
...Fantasia-Sevilliana by Joaquin Turina, Fisk's instrument immediately filled the Gardner's tapestried concert hall with its booming sound. The Turina, a work from this century, evokes traditional images of bull-fighting and Spanish dancing. Luigi Boccherini carried these ideas back to Italy more than a century before with his own guitar works...
...number one selection. So many plays ran through my mind: Flutic's Hail Mary pass, Bobby Thomson's homer, Fisk's homer, Rumeal Robinson's freethrows, to name just...