John Williams: The Baroque Album
The great guitarist John Williams has been around the block several  times with much of this music, and some of his performances sound as though  he's getting a little tired of it. He plays the guitar extremely well, as always; you  will never hear a better-executed performance of the Bach Chaconne, and the  difficulties of the Scarlatti Sonatas hardly seem to exist for him. Some of the  pieces new to his recorded repertory--Telemann, Roncalli, Couperin--are played  with all the expression I want to hear. While this is a good disc, though, it's not  the best of John Williams.--Leslie Gerber