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Kohno Tomomi

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The golden age of classical guitar art in the 20th century, and I especially want to commend her for her excellent selection of pieces. The program was well rounded, with a careful selection of attractive pieces, avoiding avant-garde works that might be considered too intellectual and dogmatic, and instead allowing the audience to enjoy sharing in the emotional and lyrical satisfaction of overcoming difficult technicalities. What a wonderful new expression of the new face of the music! What is more important is that she, as the "standard-bearer of new guitar music," is a guitarist with the same delicacy, poise, and supple tenderness that we have heard in her previous albums, and that she is close to the listener's heart. I have no doubt that this album is one of the finest achievements in the field of guitar albums in recent years. (From Shigeo Hamada's liner notes)