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A Giant Beside You

Ben Verdery & Ulysses Quartet
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July 2023

The classical and electric guitar icon Ben Verdery brings us a pair of originals, a piece penned by Bryce Dessner and particularly imaginative arrangements of a Leonard Bernstein classic and Chilean composer Javier Farías for this guitar and strings collaboration……A very worldly and timeless body of work, Verdery makes for an unconventional but very intriguing listen that’s highly admirable.
Take Effect, January 2024

Rare are recordings coupling guitar and strings; rarer still are ones featuring world premieres of recently composed material, in this case pieces by Bryce Dessner (b. 1976) and Verdery….Verdery and Ulysses Quartet benefit equally from this collaboration. A Giant Beside You casts him as an intrepid and imaginative explorer and the quartet as equally adventurous and up to the many challenges posed by such a wide-ranging project. In slightly less than an hour, the five travel confidently from American classical to South American folk and make room for arresting detours along the way—a scenic and intriguing journey, to say the least. Textura, September 2023