{"title":"Sean Shibe","description":"\u003cp\u003eb. 1992. guitarist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRising Scottish classical guitarist with an eclectic, crossover-friendly repertoire spanning Latin American guitar works (Ginastera, Mangore, Villa-Lobos) to Moondog, Hildegard von Bingen, and Bill Evans arrangements. Primarily records for Pentatone. Solo instrument justifies contemplative tag here given the intimate solo guitar medium and meditative programming choices.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"vesper","title":"Vesper","description":"Sean Shibe's fifth PENTATONE album, Vesper, presents a striking collection of contemporary guitar works by the late Harrison Birtwistle, James Dillon, and Thomas Ades, all composed by musicians who do not play the instrument themselves. Recorded here for the first time, these recent miniatures explore the guitar's expressive range in profoundly different ways: ritualistic and evocative in Birtwistle, elemental in Dillon, and allusive in Ades. Shibe's interpretations reveal the instrument's extraordinary colour, subtlety, and capacity for transformation, bringing each work to life with imagination and nuance.    For some of Birtwistle's pieces, Shibe performs on Sylvette (2021), a guitar made by luthier Simon Ambridge in collaboration with French-British artist Lydia Corbett. A muse to Pablo Picasso - who was himself an important influence for several of Birtwistle's works on this album - Corbett also inspired Picasso's celebrated Sylvette series. Modelled on the small, responsive instruments of the Andalusian luthier Antonio de Torres, the guitar features Corbett's artwork on it's body, adding a visual and symbolic layer to the performance.   Shibe is a former BBC New Generation Artist, a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship 2012 winner, a Royal Philharmonic Society 2018 Young Artist Award winner, a multi-GRAMMY nominee, and the recipient of the 2022 Leonard Bernstein Award. His recordings have won BBC Music Magazine and Gramophone Awards.","brand":"PENTATONE","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":46012498378986,"sku":"8717306265188","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/3423\/3066\/files\/4491420-3523980.jpg?v=1778216114"},{"product_id":"bennett-berkeley-britten-bush-oldham-songs-for-peter-p","title":"Songs for Peter Pears","description":"For a period of the 20th Century, due to his talent and association with Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears was perhaps the world's most famous classical singer. Pears inspired Britten to create great works of art precisely because Pears was a compelling artist with an exceptional voice, an inquisitive mind, a knowledge of art, history, literature and poetry. They became a self-perpetuating duo, inspiring each other to even greater heights of artistry, technical ability, and emotional certainty. This album of works by Lennox Berkeley, Benjamin Britten, Arthur Oldham, Richard Rodney Bennett and Geoffrey Bush is performed by tenor Robin Tritschler, who is joined by cellist Philip Higham, guitarist Sean Shibe and pianist Malcolm Martineau.     Praise for Robin Tritschler and Malcolm Martineau: 4 stars Performance, 4 stars Recording   \"Robin Tritschler's sweet-toned voice is a continual delight, as is Malcolm Martineau's sparkling, pearly, luminous piano sound\" - BBC Music Magazine","brand":"Signum Classics","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":46012501754090,"sku":"635212077429","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/3423\/3066\/files\/4335160-3177950.jpg?v=1778212932"},{"product_id":"lost-found-sean-shibe","title":"Lost \u0026 Found \/ Sean Shibe","description":"\u003cp\u003eSean Shibe’s second PENTATONE album \u003cem\u003eLost \u0026amp; Found\u003c\/em\u003e is an ecstatic journey containing music by outsiders, mystics, visionaries, who often have more than one identity and lay claim to various artistic traditions, genres, or audiences. The repertoire ranges from Hildegard von Bingen to Olivier Messiaen, Moondog, Julius Eastman, Bill Evans, Chick Corea, Meredith Monk, Shiva Feshareki, Oliver Leith and Daniel Kidane. Stretching ten centuries, these pieces are bound together by Shibe’s unique electric guitar sound and aesthetic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMulti-award-winning guitarist Sean Shibe brings a fresh and innovative approach to the traditional classical guitar, while also exploring contemporary music and repertoire for electric guitar. He continues his exclusive collaboration with PENTATONE after his well-received label debut \u003cem\u003eCamino\u003c\/em\u003e (2021).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEWS\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-41b404e9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content\" data-id=\"41b404e9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-content.default\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"elementor-widget-container\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor his second Pentatone release Lost \u0026amp; Found, Sean Shibe trades in his acoustic guitar for an electric model, supplanted by an array of sophisticated pedals. Although Shibe mixes and matches a wide array of composers, the recital’s overall trajectory evokes the kind of moody, slow moving soundscape one associates with “ambient” music practitioners like Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, and Harold Budd.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlay Hildegard von Bingen’s O choruscans lux stellarum and Olivier Leith’s “Pushing my thumb through a plate” back to back, for example, and you’d be hard pressed to determine who’s who, or, for that matter, which composer was born in 1098 and which was born in 1990! At the same time, the long sustained dissonant chords in Julius Eastman’s Buddah and the gentle, prickly melodic flourishes in Messiaen’s O sacrum convivium add welcome stylistic variety.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe three Moondog selections prove my long-held point that if you play any of his catchy and disarming pieces on electric guitar, they wind up sounding like late 1960s\/early 1970s psychedelia; think of Jefferson Airplane\/Hot Tuna guitarist Jorma Kaukonen noodling around, and you’ll get what I mean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-- ClassicsToday.com (Jed Distler)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe electric guitar meets the avant-garde in the recordings of Sean Shibe, who has to do less arranging than one might think. Here, he concedes that \"[t]he composers and pieces on this album might not immediately stand out as having very much in common; this album is less portraiture than a journey that revels in eclecticism.\" It is true; with materials from\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eHildegard of Bingen\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eto the young composer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eShiva Feshareki\u003cspan\u003e, Shibe might seem to be taking on an unruly collection of pieces, but they share a certain mood and, above all, a certain spirituality that makes the program click. Sample the pieces by\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eMoondog\u003cspan\u003e, to whom Shibe has already devoted an entire album. They bounce nicely off the works from the mainstream 20th century avant-garde and also the jazz pieces by\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eChick Corea\u003cspan\u003e. Shibe also does well to include pieces by new discoveries, not only\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eFeshareki\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebut also\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eOliver Leith\u003cspan\u003e, represented by Pushing my thumb through a plate (the longest work on the album) and the tragic avant-gardist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eJulius Eastman\u003cspan\u003e, who is thankfully being rescued from obscurity. If one wants to start exploring the work of Shibe, an undoubted original, there is no better place than here.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-- Allmusic.com\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHear more about \u003c\/em\u003eLost \u0026amp; Found\u003cem\u003e on NPR's All Things Considered!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/embed\/1114352572\/1119973942\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PENTATONE","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":46012590129386,"sku":"827949098864","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/3423\/3066\/files\/4115375-2905464.jpg?v=1778240417"},{"product_id":"broken-branches-karim-sulayman-sean-shibe","title":"Broken Branches \/ Karim Sulayman, Sean Shibe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNominated for a GRAMMY® Award!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTenor Karim Sulayman and guitarist Sean Shibe present Broken Branches, a conceptual album with music ranging from Dowland, Monteverdi, Britten, Rodrigo, Takemitsu, Harvey, and Chaker to traditional songs from the Middle East, scrutinizing the close cultural and musical ties between East and West. This musical exploration ties in with the artists’ personal experience of a dynamic, in-between identity, as they grew up in the West having ethnic roots in the East (Lebanon and Japan respectively). Broken Branches explores the wood of the guitar and its relatives, as well as the splintering of history known as diaspora. Karim Sulayman has garnered international attention as a sophisticated and versatile artist, and won a Grammy Award for Classical Solo Vocal in 2019. Multi-award-winning guitarist Sean Shibe brings a fresh and innovative approach to the traditional classical guitar, while also exploring contemporary music and repertoire for electric guitar. He continues his exclusive collaboration with PENTATONE after his well-received Camino (2021) and Lost \u0026amp; Found (2022).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEWS\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"c-product-review--quote\"\u003eIt’s a thoughtful and idiosyncratic project, one carried through in several arrangements and realizations by the two musicians that blur the line between song and art song into something broadly ‘folkish’.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"c-product-review--quote\"\u003e-- Gramophone\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"c-product-review--quote\"\u003eThis is \u003c\/span\u003ean eclectic album, built on friendship, which explores the performers’ own sense of identity, memory, diaspora, often in their own arrangements. Sulayman, a Lebanese-American singer, light-voiced and flexible, brings intensity to traditional Sephardic song, and new inflections to John Dowland, Claudio Monteverdi and Benjamin Britten (his six songs from the Chinese).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-- The Observer (U.K.)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PENTATONE","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":46012712714474,"sku":"8717306260312","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/3423\/3066\/files\/4201725-3082287.jpg?v=1778258210"},{"product_id":"profesion-guitar-music-of-villa-lobos-ginastera-barrios-sean-shibe","title":"Profesión - Guitar Music of Villa-Lobos, Ginastera \u0026 Barrios \/ Sean Shibe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSean Shibe returns to the classical guitar on Profesión, bringing together works by Agustín Barrios, Heitor Villa-Lobos and Alberto Ginastera. The album derives its name from Barrios’s “Profesión de Fe” (profession of faith), a poem which he often used as a preface to his concerts. The poem references indigenous mythological deities, and praises the power of the guitar as the ultimate conduit to the secrets of the divine South-American destiny. Barrios’s La Catedral and Julia Florida are combined with Villa Lobos’s 12 Études, while Ginastera’s Sonata completes the program.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThese works by South American composers begin with homage and pastiche in reverence of the Old World, but build towards a totally original idiom - musical magical realism. The repertoire is voluminous, indulging in excess, and narcotic, and as such creates a counterweight to the reserved and introspective nature of Shibe’s acclaimed classical predecessor album \u003cem\u003eCamino\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis will be Shibe’s first-ever album focusing on repertoire that was originally written for the classical guitar, and he plays a Hauser copy built for Julian Bream. 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In that respect, \u003cem\u003eCamino\u003c\/em\u003e also documents Shibe’s personal quest to overcome the challenges of a time dominated by COVID-19, and to ultimately see the world anew.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMulti-award-winning guitarist Sean Shibe brings a fresh and innovative approach to the traditional classical guitar, while also exploring contemporary music and repertoire for electric guitar. \u003cem\u003eCamino\u003c\/em\u003e is the first fruit of an exclusive collaboration with PENTATONE.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan id=\"ctl00_MainContent_gvReviews_cell5_12_ASPxPopupControl1_ASPxLabel2\" class=\"dxeBase_PlasticBlue\"\u003eGuitarist Sean Shibe has been known for daring programming, and an album of Spanish guitar music might seem a retreat to normalcy, but this is not the case. 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