Guitarist Sean Shibe has released several well-received albums, but this set of Bach works serves notice of a major talent. The music was originally for lute, but Bach, an inveterate recycler and transcriber, would have been delighted by this performance. Shibe combines agility and profound structural thought. His ornaments, skillfully adapted from lute to guitar, are graceful and incredibly detailed. His conceptions of the pieces as wholes are compelling indeed: he deemphasizes the dance rhythms in favor of motivic ...
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Guitarist Sean Shibe has released several well-received albums, but this set of Bach works serves notice of a major talent. The music was originally for lute, but Bach, an inveterate recycler and transcriber, would have been delighted by this performance. Shibe combines agility and profound structural thought. His ornaments, skillfully adapted from lute to guitar, are graceful and incredibly detailed. His conceptions of the pieces as wholes are compelling indeed: he deemphasizes the dance rhythms in favor of motivic connections between the movements, but they're still there. Consider the unmannered performance of the most famous movement in the group, the Bourrée of the Suite in E minor, BWV 996. Or turn to the end, where the unusual Prelude, Fugue, and Allegro, BWV 998, has a luminosity that extends across all three sections. Right from the opening strokes of the Prelude in BWV 996, Shibe is arresting, and he never really flags. The album is only about 45 minutes long, but it has a rare sense of...
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