This recording not only presents Israel Sharon's music for guitar of the last decade but also celebrates 25 years of close musical collaboration with guitarist Hanan Feinstein. During this time the two artists established a true musical partnership – a fusion of the composer's ideas and style with the performer's musical personality. This long-standing collaboration has enabled Israel Sharon to explore the guitar's multiple facets: the melodic, polyphonic and timbre qualities; its enormous potential as a chamber music instrument; and the variety of styles in which the guitar can be comfortably incorporated. This has resulted in numerous works composed for guitar as solo or as chamber music instrument. The Seven Etudes for Guitar, composed between 2006 and 2013, could be regarded more as "etudes de concert" than as etudes in the simple meaning of the word. Each etude deals with at least two aspects, one technical and the other musical, and exp...