Word: fretwork
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Citing the critical link between culture and linguistic voice in poetic translations, Emerson Visiting Poet and 1995 Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney delivered a lecture entitled "Fretwork: On Translating Beowulf" last night to a full house in the Science Center...
...very good. A few of these tracks rank among Hendrix's most remarkable recordings, while others--"Little Wing," "All Along the Watchtower," and "Sweet Angel" --are different versions of his best songs. Guitar-playing Hendrix disciples will also not be disappointed by the wealth of blistering fretwork this album offers, particularly because nearly half of its tracks are instrumentals...
Quite impressively, Fretwork maintains a stylistic and artistic continuum throughout the years. One could be fairly easily convinced that this recording was made in one continuos period, rather than three...
...true to motto of the Virgin Classics Veritas series, Fretwork manages to integrate early music scholarship with excellent playing and convincing and convincing interpretations...
...Fretwork produces a highly listenable recording, it a bit hypnotic at times. I must also admit a special fondness for some of the extra-musical sonic background of the hair on the bows against the strings. Rest assured, though, that if is not so much disconcerting as endearing...