The Daily Telegraph (UK) | |
"One of the guitar greats.." | |
"I love the way he welcomes the listener into his playing." | |
"His tone has an elegant, silvery quality." | |
"McFadden’s own arrangement of Granados’ Valses Poeticos is so skillful as to make it seem incredible that this music was originally conceived for piano" | |
"...winning lightness and charm sonorous, athletic elan." | |
"One can readily understand his success in recent competitions." | |
Gramophone (UK) | |
"Jeffrey McFadden is a squeaky-clean and musical player with a clear and three-dimensional tone." | |
"McFadden plays everything with humanity and respect." | |
"This is an outstanding disc." | |
The Ottawa Citizen (Canada) | |
"The playing is excellent throughout." | |
"No guitar lover should pass up this [disc]." | |
The Vancouver Sun (Canada) | |
"McFadden is an extremely subtle and fluent musician." | |
"Particularly beautiful is his playing of Barrios’ La Catedral" | |
Classic CD (UK) | |
"Simply the best.." | |
"McFadden plays with a wonderfully clean and flexible technique, great sensitivity and a beautifully limpid tone." | |
"This is major artistry." | |
Classical Guitar Magazine (UK) | |
"McFadden achieves an impressive range of dynamic and tone colour which perhaps even matches that of the classic Bream recording." | |
"McFadden shows a clear, concise articulation with a virtuosic flair which adds sparkle and charm." | |
Les Chahiers de la Guitare et de la Musique (France) | |
"What can be said of his performance except that it is full of finesse, of taste and sensitivity, in a word, Superb!" | |
Gendai Guitar (Japan) | |
"Most recommended CD of this Month (Sept 1996)" | |
"A nice young Canadian fellow" | |
"Large-hearted and scaled" | |
"The aesthetic sense of the guitarist seeps through" | |
Gitarre und Laute (Germany) | |
"Jeffrey McFadden has been honored in several world competitions...these prizes were not awarded without justification." | |
"His playing is defiant of shear power, mellifluous and musically immense." | |
"He imparts his own meaning to the pieces and expresses them with the strength of conviction." | |
Soundboard (USA) | |
"Intense and convincing" | |
"This may have been the best music-making in the competition." | |
"It certainly makes you want to hear more from this gifted artist." | |
Fanfare (USA) | |
"He plays with lustrous tone" | |
Now (Toronto, Canada) | |
"Jeffrey McFadden is plainly a considerable talent." | |
"He has an innate musicality and a bright clarity of tone that lets every note speak." | |
"Unerring clarity at delineating the musical line, flawless technique and an awareness of the arch wit at work in Sor’s music". | |
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