Sean Shibe in Recital
Sat 12 Sep 8pm
Presented by Kate Molleson
£5 Book Concert £33 Buy Festival Pass
Duration: approx. 75 mins
Sweet Saint Nickola, Canaries, A Scotts Tune, Mervell’s Sarabande, Holi and Faire, Ladie Lie Neer Me, A Scotts Tune
Suite CompostelanaCancion e Danza X
Sarabande
LAD (arr. Shibe)
Guitars
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Credit: Kaupo Kikkas
Sean Shibe needs no introduction as one of the most outstanding musicians to emerge from Scotland in recent years. His technical mastery and phenomenal range of colour will be on show in the 17th century Scottish pieces that open his programme as much as in the wistful Spanish melancholy of Mompou. The climax of his recital is American composer Julia Wolfe’s LAD, in Sean’s own arrangement for electric guitar. Always fascinated by folk music and strongly motivated by social injustice, Wolfe pours ‘cathartic grief and anger’ into this gripping music, originally composed for nine bagpipes
This astonishing and adventurous guitarist plays with such depth of tone, colour and intricacies of touch that it is as though he's at a harpsichord . . . Shibe's music-making is masterful, beautiful and convincing in every way.
The Times
Few have recorded [these works] with such a thrilling combination of technical flair, finesse and blazingly evident musical sympathy. It's almost as if this music was waiting for Shibe to come along, the results are that breath-taking . . . As throughout this phenomenal disc, Shibe demonstrates a musical maturity far beyond his 28 years
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