New Music with Guitar, Vol. 10 <br> David Starobin <br> BRIDGE 9458David Starobin's New Music with Guitar series has been "in progress" since 1981. The latest installment by the guitarist called "arguably the most influential American classical guitarist of the twentieth century" (Soundboard Magazine), includes both instrumental and vocal music performed by Starobin with long time collegaues and collaborators including baritone Patrick Mason, soprano Rosalind Rees, pianist Vassily Primakov, violinist Movses Pogossian

It bears the inscription "Roger Sessions In Memoriam

the solo string piece Khse Buon

and he eventually ignored Diabelli's request for a single variation

California Mazurka (Duet)

to explore it with them

Walter Hilse

Escher String Quartet

and Tania Leon

were a highlight of the evening

and a Scottish nursery rhyme

The fact that the two instruments often play similar material makes the contrast between the sustained sounds of the violin and the decaying sounds of the piano especially clear

finely remastered album is accompanied by splendid photographs of the pianist with her family and with such colleagues as Benny Goodman