GFA Soundboard
Fall/Winter 2001/2002

The Pilgrim Forest is a large work for guitar composed and performed by Christopher Berg. There are 10 movements which have descriptive metaphorical or perhaps allegorical titles, but the enjoyment of the music has little to do with the names of the various movements. The compositional style is quite conservative and pleasant with hints of varied influences from the renaissance to "new age."

Berg's performance is beautiful. His sound, his sense of progression, and level of artistic intensity are compelling and make repeated hearings of this recording very enjoyable. I must confess I didn't really understand the relationship of the metaphorical titles to the actual music. I enjoyed the music regardless!

-- Stephen Waechter