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There are certainly contemporary guitarists who can match Sean Shibe for technical facility, but very few can match him for an ability to entrance an audience with a single stroke or strum. He has recorded Spanish music in the past in strikingly unusual ways, but this is his first album of South American works. It is splendid. There is a "bonus track" included on the physical album and, in some online versions, a recording of Villa-Lobos' Prelude No. 3 in A minor (Homage to Bach); recordings with this are recommended, for it makes an arresting beginning. Shibe proceeds to the three-movement La Catedral of the underrated Agustín Barrios (here, Agustín Barrios Mangoré), whose mysterious, mystical style fits Shibe beautifully. The album title, Profesión, comes from a poem, Profesión de Fé ("Profession of Faith"), by Barrios, reproduced in the booklet. The 12 Studies of Villa-Lobos are dispatched with a suitably commanding style, and when they seemingly reach an absolute peak of intensity with the final one, Shibe deftly steps into new territory with Alberto Ginastera's Guitar Sonata, Op. 47. That, too, is a somewhat underrated work; it is Ginastera's only composition for guitar, despite the popularity of the instrument in Argentina, and it deftly fuses the folk and modernist strands of his musical character. It makes an elegant finale to an album that fascinates from beginning to end. An added attraction is the double set of notes by Shibe and Hugh Morris, delving into the history of the repertory. The church sound, one feels, is not quite right, and yet producer Matthew Swan does succeed in capturing Shibe's larger-than-life quality. This release made classical best-seller charts in the holiday season of 2023; it will be around long after that season is over.
© James Manheim /TiVo
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Oscar Torres, SoundEngineer - Agustin Barrios Mangore, Composer - Sean Shibe, Guitar, MainArtist - Matthew Swan, Producer
2023 Pentatone Music B.V. 2023 Pentatone Music B.V.
Oscar Torres, SoundEngineer - Agustin Barrios Mangore, Composer - Sean Shibe, Guitar, MainArtist - Matthew Swan, Producer
2023 Pentatone Music B.V. 2023 Pentatone Music B.V.
Oscar Torres, SoundEngineer - Agustin Barrios Mangore, Composer - Sean Shibe, Guitar, MainArtist - Matthew Swan, Producer
2023 Pentatone Music B.V. 2023 Pentatone Music B.V.
Oscar Torres, SoundEngineer - Agustin Barrios Mangore, Composer - Sean Shibe, Guitar, MainArtist - Matthew Swan, Producer
2023 Pentatone Music B.V. 2023 Pentatone Music B.V.
Oscar Torres, SoundEngineer - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer - Sean Shibe, Guitar, MainArtist - Matthew Swan, Producer
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Oscar Torres, SoundEngineer - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer - Sean Shibe, Guitar, MainArtist - Matthew Swan, Producer
2023 Pentatone Music B.V. 2023 Pentatone Music B.V.
Oscar Torres, SoundEngineer - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer - Sean Shibe, Guitar, MainArtist - Matthew Swan, Producer
2023 Pentatone Music B.V. 2023 Pentatone Music B.V.
Oscar Torres, SoundEngineer - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer - Sean Shibe, Guitar, MainArtist - Matthew Swan, Producer
2023 Pentatone Music B.V. 2023 Pentatone Music B.V.
Oscar Torres, SoundEngineer - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer - Sean Shibe, Guitar, MainArtist - Matthew Swan, Producer
2023 Pentatone Music B.V. 2023 Pentatone Music B.V.
Oscar Torres, SoundEngineer - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer - Sean Shibe, Guitar, MainArtist - Matthew Swan, Producer
2023 Pentatone Music B.V. 2023 Pentatone Music B.V.
Oscar Torres, SoundEngineer - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer - Sean Shibe, Guitar, MainArtist - Matthew Swan, Producer
2023 Pentatone Music B.V. 2023 Pentatone Music B.V.
Oscar Torres, SoundEngineer - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer - Sean Shibe, Guitar, MainArtist - Matthew Swan, Producer
2023 Pentatone Music B.V. 2023 Pentatone Music B.V.
Oscar Torres, SoundEngineer - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer - Sean Shibe, Guitar, MainArtist - Matthew Swan, Producer
2023 Pentatone Music B.V. 2023 Pentatone Music B.V.
Oscar Torres, SoundEngineer - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer - Sean Shibe, Guitar, MainArtist - Matthew Swan, Producer
2023 Pentatone Music B.V. 2023 Pentatone Music B.V.
Oscar Torres, SoundEngineer - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer - Sean Shibe, Guitar, MainArtist - Matthew Swan, Producer
2023 Pentatone Music B.V. 2023 Pentatone Music B.V.
Oscar Torres, SoundEngineer - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer - Sean Shibe, Guitar, MainArtist - Matthew Swan, Producer
2023 Pentatone Music B.V. 2023 Pentatone Music B.V.
Oscar Torres, SoundEngineer - Alberto Ginastera, Composer - Sean Shibe, Guitar, MainArtist - Matthew Swan, Producer
2023 Pentatone Music B.V. 2023 Pentatone Music B.V.
Oscar Torres, SoundEngineer - Alberto Ginastera, Composer - Sean Shibe, Guitar, MainArtist - Matthew Swan, Producer
2023 Pentatone Music B.V. 2023 Pentatone Music B.V.
Oscar Torres, SoundEngineer - Alberto Ginastera, Composer - Sean Shibe, Guitar, MainArtist - Matthew Swan, Producer
2023 Pentatone Music B.V. 2023 Pentatone Music B.V.
Oscar Torres, SoundEngineer - Alberto Ginastera, Composer - Sean Shibe, Guitar, MainArtist - Matthew Swan, Producer
2023 Pentatone Music B.V. 2023 Pentatone Music B.V.
Albumbeschreibung
There are certainly contemporary guitarists who can match Sean Shibe for technical facility, but very few can match him for an ability to entrance an audience with a single stroke or strum. He has recorded Spanish music in the past in strikingly unusual ways, but this is his first album of South American works. It is splendid. There is a "bonus track" included on the physical album and, in some online versions, a recording of Villa-Lobos' Prelude No. 3 in A minor (Homage to Bach); recordings with this are recommended, for it makes an arresting beginning. Shibe proceeds to the three-movement La Catedral of the underrated Agustín Barrios (here, Agustín Barrios Mangoré), whose mysterious, mystical style fits Shibe beautifully. The album title, Profesión, comes from a poem, Profesión de Fé ("Profession of Faith"), by Barrios, reproduced in the booklet. The 12 Studies of Villa-Lobos are dispatched with a suitably commanding style, and when they seemingly reach an absolute peak of intensity with the final one, Shibe deftly steps into new territory with Alberto Ginastera's Guitar Sonata, Op. 47. That, too, is a somewhat underrated work; it is Ginastera's only composition for guitar, despite the popularity of the instrument in Argentina, and it deftly fuses the folk and modernist strands of his musical character. It makes an elegant finale to an album that fascinates from beginning to end. An added attraction is the double set of notes by Shibe and Hugh Morris, delving into the history of the repertory. The church sound, one feels, is not quite right, and yet producer Matthew Swan does succeed in capturing Shibe's larger-than-life quality. This release made classical best-seller charts in the holiday season of 2023; it will be around long after that season is over.
© James Manheim /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 20 track(s)
- Total length: 00:58:01
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Sean Shibe
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: PENTATONE
- Genre: Klassiek
2023 Pentatone Music B.V. 2023 Pentatone Music B.V.
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