It would make the collector's life a lot easier if guitarists did not so often permutate their programmes like hopefully completed football coupons; the prospect of unwanted duplication is all too familiar. One happy solution is the one-composer disc as offered here by RCA, bringing together the best of Villa-Lobos's guitar music. Bream's recordings are of course digitally remastered—and very well at that, so that the sound betrays neither the 'age' of the originals nor the six years that separated them. From Pepe Romero one never gets less than technical perfection and elegance, but in the Concerto Bream is the more passionately expressive and makes the most of what is a somewhat patchwork showpiece. There is no other CD version of the Preludes and Etudes, those staples of the guitar repertory. As if all this were not enough, Romero's Philips disc runs for only 48 minutes and, considering that both he and Bream provide first-class musical fare, this is no small consideration.'