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"..refined and technically immaculate."
Paul Fowles, Classical Guitar
"Koonce immediately assures the listener . . . that he is a player of refined and well developed tone and clean technique. . . . an ideal performance. . . . I admire the professionalism which has created the necessary sense of easiness about the performance."
Chris Kilvington, Classical Guitar
"An outstanding program that has been a sheer delight to listen to . . . first-rate musicianship . . ."
The Allegro Quarterly
"Most of the festival participants had heard Segovia's recordings of ten solo guitar excerpts from Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Platero y yo, Op. 190, but few had heard the work as it was intended - with a narrator reading the Nobel prize-winning poetry of Juan Ramón Jiménez. Guitarist Frank Koonce and narrator Don Doyle, a professional actor and storyteller, presented a charming and moving performance in English of seventeen pieces (out of a total of 28) drawn from one of Castelnuovo-Tedesco's finest works - surely one of the highlights of the festival."
Richard Long, Soundboard Magazine
"The performers....have put together a well thought out production, bringing their substantial talents together to great effect....they have lavished attention on every detail and nuance of the score. Koonce is especially effective in establishing a subtle and ever-changing emotive context for the text. His technical facility more than meets the demands of the rigorous solo guitar part."
Richard Greene, Guitar Review Magazine
"Frank Koonce has produced on this disc some of the most beautiful playing and refined sound I have heard recently, always supporting the narration of Don Doyle and both of them exploiting the delicate nuances of interplay between score and text."
Andy Daly, Classical Music on the Web
Paul Fowles, Classical Guitar
"Koonce immediately assures the listener . . . that he is a player of refined and well developed tone and clean technique. . . . an ideal performance. . . . I admire the professionalism which has created the necessary sense of easiness about the performance."
Chris Kilvington, Classical Guitar
"An outstanding program that has been a sheer delight to listen to . . . first-rate musicianship . . ."
The Allegro Quarterly
"Most of the festival participants had heard Segovia's recordings of ten solo guitar excerpts from Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Platero y yo, Op. 190, but few had heard the work as it was intended - with a narrator reading the Nobel prize-winning poetry of Juan Ramón Jiménez. Guitarist Frank Koonce and narrator Don Doyle, a professional actor and storyteller, presented a charming and moving performance in English of seventeen pieces (out of a total of 28) drawn from one of Castelnuovo-Tedesco's finest works - surely one of the highlights of the festival."
Richard Long, Soundboard Magazine
"The performers....have put together a well thought out production, bringing their substantial talents together to great effect....they have lavished attention on every detail and nuance of the score. Koonce is especially effective in establishing a subtle and ever-changing emotive context for the text. His technical facility more than meets the demands of the rigorous solo guitar part."
Richard Greene, Guitar Review Magazine
"Frank Koonce has produced on this disc some of the most beautiful playing and refined sound I have heard recently, always supporting the narration of Don Doyle and both of them exploiting the delicate nuances of interplay between score and text."
Andy Daly, Classical Music on the Web