Sean Shibe – J.S. Bach: Lute Works (Arr. for Guitar) (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Sean Shibe – J.S. Bach: Lute Works (Arr. for Guitar) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:22 minutes | 430 MB | Genre: Classical
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Three years as a Delphian artist have seen Sean Shibe record music from seventeenth-century Scottish lute manuscripts to twenty-first-century works for electric guitar, picking up multiple editor’s choices and award nominations for each release, as well as the Royal Philharmonic Society’s prestigious ‘Young Artist of the Year’ accolade.

Now he turns to the music of J. S. Bach, with three works whose obscure early performance history belies their status as repertoire staples for modern guitarists.

The musicological questions that have arisen over what instrument Bach intended for these works – questions encapsulated for Shibe by the phrase ‘pour la luth ò cembal’, which appears in the composer’s hand at the head of the manuscript of the Prelude to BWV998 – are here answered by the unshakeable assurance of Shibe’s performances.

“Can you ever speak in elevated, grandiose terms about a classical guitarist? You want to avoid weight, to find instead phrases of lightness and simplicity. Yet after listening to Sean Shibe’s magnificent new Bach recital, when I reach for comparisons I don’t go to other guitarists.” (Gramophone)

Tracklist:
1. Sean Shibe – Suite in E Minor, BWV 996 (Arr. for Guitar): I. Praeludio (02:29)
2. Sean Shibe – Suite in E Minor, BWV 996 (Arr. for Guitar): II. Allemande (02:29)
3. Sean Shibe – Suite in E Minor, BWV 996 (Arr. for Guitar): III. Courante (02:25)
4. Sean Shibe – Suite in E Minor, BWV 996 (Arr. for Guitar): IV. Sarabande (03:21)
5. Sean Shibe – Suite in E Minor, BWV 996 (Arr. for Guitar): V. Bourrée (01:10)
6. Sean Shibe – Suite in E Minor, BWV 996 (Arr. for Guitar): VI. Gigue (02:58)
7. Sean Shibe – Suite in C Minor, BWV 997 (Arr. for Guitar): I. Preludio (03:05)
8. Sean Shibe – Suite in C Minor, BWV 997 (Arr. for Guitar): II. Fuga (05:53)
9. Sean Shibe – Suite in C Minor, BWV 997 (Arr. for Guitar): III. Sarabande (04:13)
10. Sean Shibe – Suite in C Minor, BWV 997 (Arr. for Guitar): IV. Gigue (02:53)
11. Sean Shibe – Suite in C Minor, BWV 997 (Arr. for Guitar): V. Double (03:02)
12. Sean Shibe – Prelude, Fugue & Allegro in E-Flat Major, BWV 998 (Arr. for Guitar): I. Prelude (02:57)
13. Sean Shibe – Prelude, Fugue & Allegro in E-Flat Major, BWV 998 (Arr. for Guitar): II. Fuga (06:00)
14. Sean Shibe – Prelude, Fugue & Allegro in E-Flat Major, BWV 998 (Arr. for Guitar): III. Allegro (03:22)

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