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Programs mixing Eastern and Western materials are common enough, and even those showing the deep interwovenness of East and West, such as those of Jordi Savall, have become more common. Still, it is hard to top this release by tenor Karim Sulayman and guitarist Sean Shibe for sheer ambition. The booklet notes by Olivia Giovetti amplify the idea in a dozen different ways, with extensive reference to Edward Said and to the Arabic ancestry of the guitar, but the basic premise is that "shoehorning things into a forced binary of 'East' and 'West' eliminates a spectrum of identities more slippery than settled." Nearly everything here cuts both ways, from a Dowland song accompanied by guitar in the role of the lute (oud), to Sephardic and Arab-Andalusian songs, to a popular song by vocalist Fairuz that draws on Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez. One key idea is that musical borrowings are always filtered through the borrower in a kind of imperfect recollection, something explicitly affirmed by Benjamin Britten in connection with his Songs from the Chinese. Many of these strands converge in the Sufi Dance of Jonathan Harvey, a work that the album offers as underrated; listeners will be ready to agree. One might not necessarily choose these players as interpreters of the individual works here, but the album, as a whole, is compelling and thought-provoking.
© James Manheim /TiVo
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John Dowland, Composer, Lyricist - Karim Sulayman, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sean Shibe, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2023 PENTATONE 2023 (P) PENTATONE
Jonathan Harvey, Composer - Sean Shibe, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2023 PENTATONE 2023 (P) PENTATONE
Giulio Caccini, Composer - Karim Sulayman, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Maria Menadori, Lyricist - Sean Shibe, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2023 PENTATONE 2023 (P) PENTATONE
Claudio Monteverdi, Composer - Karim Sulayman, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Carlo Milanuzzi, Lyricist - Sean Shibe, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2023 PENTATONE 2023 (P) PENTATONE
Claudio Monteverdi, Composer - Karim Sulayman, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Carlo Milanuzzi, Lyricist - Sean Shibe, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2023 PENTATONE 2023 (P) PENTATONE
Traditional Sephardic, Composer, Lyricist - Karim Sulayman, Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sean Shibe, Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2023 PENTATONE 2023 (P) PENTATONE
Sean Shibe, Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Traditional Arab-Andalusian, Composer
2023 PENTATONE 2023 (P) PENTATONE
SAYED DARWISH, Composer, Lyricist - Karim Sulayman, Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sean Shibe, Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2023 PENTATONE 2023 (P) PENTATONE
Fairuz, Composer, Lyricist - Karim Sulayman, Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sean Shibe, Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2023 PENTATONE 2023 (P) PENTATONE
Anonymous, Lyricist - Karim Sulayman, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sean Shibe, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Layale Chaker, Composer, Lyricist
2023 PENTATONE 2023 (P) PENTATONE
In the Woods (Töru Takemitsu)
Toru Takemitsu, Composer - Sean Shibe, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2023 PENTATONE 2023 (P) PENTATONE
Songs from the Chinese (Benjamin Britten)
Anonymous, Lyricist - Benjamin Britten, Composer - Karim Sulayman, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arthur Waley, Translator - Sean Shibe, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2023 PENTATONE 2023 (P) PENTATONE
Anonymous, Lyricist - Benjamin Britten, Composer - Karim Sulayman, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arthur Waley, Translator - Sean Shibe, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2023 PENTATONE 2023 (P) PENTATONE
Anonymous, Lyricist - Benjamin Britten, Composer - Karim Sulayman, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arthur Waley, Translator - Sean Shibe, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2023 PENTATONE 2023 (P) PENTATONE
Anonymous, Lyricist - Benjamin Britten, Composer - Karim Sulayman, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arthur Waley, Translator - Sean Shibe, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2023 PENTATONE 2023 (P) PENTATONE
Anonymous, Lyricist - Benjamin Britten, Composer - Karim Sulayman, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arthur Waley, Translator - Sean Shibe, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2023 PENTATONE 2023 (P) PENTATONE
Anonymous, Lyricist - Benjamin Britten, Composer - Karim Sulayman, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arthur Waley, Translator - Sean Shibe, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2023 PENTATONE 2023 (P) PENTATONE
Album review
Programs mixing Eastern and Western materials are common enough, and even those showing the deep interwovenness of East and West, such as those of Jordi Savall, have become more common. Still, it is hard to top this release by tenor Karim Sulayman and guitarist Sean Shibe for sheer ambition. The booklet notes by Olivia Giovetti amplify the idea in a dozen different ways, with extensive reference to Edward Said and to the Arabic ancestry of the guitar, but the basic premise is that "shoehorning things into a forced binary of 'East' and 'West' eliminates a spectrum of identities more slippery than settled." Nearly everything here cuts both ways, from a Dowland song accompanied by guitar in the role of the lute (oud), to Sephardic and Arab-Andalusian songs, to a popular song by vocalist Fairuz that draws on Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez. One key idea is that musical borrowings are always filtered through the borrower in a kind of imperfect recollection, something explicitly affirmed by Benjamin Britten in connection with his Songs from the Chinese. Many of these strands converge in the Sufi Dance of Jonathan Harvey, a work that the album offers as underrated; listeners will be ready to agree. One might not necessarily choose these players as interpreters of the individual works here, but the album, as a whole, is compelling and thought-provoking.
© James Manheim /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 17 track(s)
- Total length: 00:51:08
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Karim Sulayman Sean Shibe
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: PENTATONE
- Genre: Classical
2023 PENTATONE 2023 (P) PENTATONE
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