Pastiches

John Schneider

Premiere Recordings

Grammy®Award winning guitarist John Schneider performs Modern Masterworks based on antique models in their Historic Temperaments.

Splendid — Soundboard Magazine

Utterly ravishing… at times almost impossibly beautiful….a disc filled with wonders.

Enter a blacksmith, altered. Mauro Giuliani’s Variations on a Theme of Handel takes on that most famous of harmonious smithies…I can think of no higher praise than to say I prefer Schneider to Pepe Romero’s well-regarded account (Fanfare 3:5). With Romero, I hear technique; with Schneider, I hear Handel filtered via Giuliani. It is difficult to imagine finer performances than these…Schneider is astonishing.

A real Want List candidate: never did I think this disc would captivate so much. A spellbinding, varied progam that simply must be heard. — Fanfare

A Delight. — New York Times

Unforgettable — San Francisco Chronicle

Schneider creates elegant dynamic levels and layers on his solo guitar, and he always projects the poetry of the music. — Fanfare

A highly refined palette…Schneider’s sensitive playing is constantly alert to the nuances of his infinitesimally small degrees of tuning. — >Gramophone