Leonardo Balada

These concertos of the late 1990s by Spanish writer Leonardo Balada are at times dark and haunting, at other times boisterous and exuberant. The combination of lively rhythm and harmonic color make Balada appear perhaps like a more contemporary reincarnation of Joaquin Rodrigo. Witness the frenetic intensity with which Eliot Fisk deftly navigates the guitar concerto.