Sean Shibe: Bach
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J. S. BACH
Sean Shibe: Bach
Sean Shibe (guitar)
[ Delphian / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 22 May 2020
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Three years as a Delphian artist have seen Sean Shibe record music from seventeenth century Scottish lute manuscripts to twenty-first-century works for electric guitar, picking up multiple editor's choices and award nominations for each release, as well as the Royal Philharmonic Society's prestigious Young Artist of the Year accolade.
Now he turns to the music of J. S. Bach, with three works whose obscure early performance history belies their status as repertoire staples for modern guitarists.
The musicological questions that have arisen over what instrument Bach intended for these works - questions encapsulated for Shibe by the phrase 'pour la luth ò cembal', which appears in the composer's hand at the head of the manuscript of the Prelude to bwv 998 - are here answered by the unshakeable assurance of Shibe's performances.
GRAMOPHONE Award WINNER 2021 - Instrumental
"Shibe applies the musical and interpretative qualities that characterise its predecessors - energy, reflection, eclecticism, integration and emotional candour - to remind us that Bach might have been singular but he contained multitudes…Has the Prelude, Fugue and Allegro [of BWV997] ever sounded so contemporary in its nostalgic sweetness and, in the final movement, sheer unabashed joy?" Gramophone Editor's Choice June 2020
"He's commandingly expressive in slower movements, like the improvisatory opening Prelude of the E minor Suite, BWV 996 and the spacious Sarabandes of that work and the C minor Partita, BWV 997, while the clarity in his articulation of the most complex counterpoints there and in the Prelude, Fugue, and Allegro, BWV 998, is as exemplary as his gloriously warm timbre is alluring." Sunday Times
