Sean Shibe: Camino
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Label: Pentatone
Cat No: PTC5186870
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 20th August 2021
Contents
Works
El sombrero de tres picos (The three-cornered hat)Guitar Sonata
Sarabande for solo guitar
Pavane pour une infante defunte (guitar)
Gnossiennes (6)
Artists
Sean Shibe (guitar)Works
El sombrero de tres picos (The three-cornered hat)Guitar Sonata
Sarabande for solo guitar
Pavane pour une infante defunte (guitar)
Gnossiennes (6)
Artists
Sean Shibe (guitar)About
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. Camino is the first fruit of an exclusive collaboration with PENTATONE.
Sound/Video
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1de Falla - Danza del molinero (from El Sombrero de tres picos)
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2Jose - Pavana trista (third movement of Sonata for Guitar)
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3Mompou - Canco i dansa 10 - Canco
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4Mompou - Canco i dansa 10 - Dansa
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5Satie - Gymnopedie No.1
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6Satie - Gnossienne No.1
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7Satie - Gnossienne No.3
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8Mompou - Canco i dansa 6 - Canco
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9Mompou - Canco i dansa 6 - Dansa
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10Ravel - Pavane pour une infante defunte
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11de Falla - Homenaje, pour Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy
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12Mompou - Suite compostelana - Preludio
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13Mompou - Suite compostelana - Coral
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14Mompou - Suite compostelana - Cuna
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15Mompou - Suite compostelana - Recitativo
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16Mompou - Suite compostelana - Cancion
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17Mompou - Suite compostelana - Muniera
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18Poulenc - Sarabande
Europadisc Review
It’s entitled simply Camino, a reference to the Camino de Santiago, or ‘Way of St James’, the traditional pilgrims’ routes to the shrine of St James at Santiago de Compostela, in Galicia, northwest Spain. Its focus on the Franco-Spanish repertoire is an attempt, in Shibe’s own words, ‘to get over my apparent aversion to the sentimentality of the Spanish repertoire traditionally associated with the guitar.’ And he does so in inimitable style by presenting a programme with a pronounced meditative quality: melancholy and nostalgic, but full of wonder at the kaleidoscope of expressiveness it reveals.
Although most of the works on the disc have a distinctively inward quality, the recital opens with a burst of extroversion in the shape of the Miller’s Dance from Manuel de Falla’s Andalusian-infused 1919 opera The Three-Cornered Hat, in a dazzling guitar transcription which, even in its opening few bars, reveals the sheer range of colour and touch that Shibe brings to the instrument, with carefully deployed vibrato, dynamic shading and attack. From this arresting opener, we move on to a true rarity: the Pavana triste from the 1933 Guitar Sonata by the Burgos-born composer Antonio José (1902-1936), an emotionally intense movement whose pungent harmonies and delicate gestures (wonderfully conveyed by Shibe) hint at the genius that led Maurice Ravel to declare ‘He will become the Spanish composer of our century’. Fate decreed otherwise, however, when José – like Federico García Lorca – was executed by a Falangist firing squad on 11 October 1936. His prolific output is ripe for rediscovery, and this performance certainly whets the appetite for more.
The thread running throughout this programme is the music of the Catalan composer Frederic Mompou (1893-1987), including his own guitar version of the Canço i dansa no.10 (based on two songs by the 13th-century Alfonso X of Castile) as well as the Canço i dansa no.6 originally dedicated to Artur Rubinstein in 1947. Both are imbued here with a range of expressive nuance that far exceeds their modest dimensions.
The earliest music on the disc is a group of three pieces from Erik Satie’s celebrated Gymnopédies (the ubiquitous no.1) and Gnossienes (nos. 1 and 3), all of which take on a new freshness and modernity at Shibe’s sensitive hands, with particularly vivid use of harmonics. Another transcription from an original piano work is Ravel’s Pavane pour une Infante défunte, a spellbindingly idiomatic account which rivals any performance of the piano or orchestral versions in sensitivity and variety of timbre. Falla’s Homenaje pour ‘Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy’, originally composed for a 1920 Debussy memorial edition of La Revue musicale and rendered here with a depth of expression and command of nuance that’s entirely in keeping with the work’s sombre, introspective mood, dying away to the barest whisper of sound.
The highlight of the programme, however, is surely the superb account of Mompou’s 1962 Suite compostelana, inspired by the region around Santiago de Compostela, with a whole range of subtly conveyed tone-pictures including a chorale and a lullaby (‘Coral’ and ‘Cuna’), enriched by the composer’s very special way with allusively dissonant harmonies. From the magical emergence of the opening Preludio to the gently infectious rhythms of the closing ‘Muñeira’ (a traditional Galician dance), this is a thrillingly commanding performance that has the listener completely absorbed in Mompou’s distinctive soundworld, with melodic lines highlighted to perfection, and every harmonic, textural and rhythmic nuance perfectly conveyed by Shibe and the Pentatone team.
Rounding off this outstanding disc is Francis Poulenc’s gently inflected and rhythmically malleable Sarabande of 1960, providing an ideal conclusion to a profoundly rewarding and typically thoughtful programme. Unhesitatingly recommended, and not just to guitar aficionados!
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