This Delphian-label release by the young Scots guitarist Sean Shibe is something of a tribute to guitar pioneer Julian Bream, who, you learn from the booklet, "inspired, performed, edited, and (most of them) performed" the four outer works on the program, by William Walton, Lennox Berkeley, Malcolm Arnold, and Benjamin Britten. Bream would also certainly have performed the three pieces by John Dowland that make up the central ent'racte, and Shibe captures his big, spacious, highly percussive style. Sample one of the ripping ...
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This Delphian-label release by the young Scots guitarist Sean Shibe is something of a tribute to guitar pioneer Julian Bream, who, you learn from the booklet, "inspired, performed, edited, and (most of them) performed" the four outer works on the program, by William Walton, Lennox Berkeley, Malcolm Arnold, and Benjamin Britten. Bream would also certainly have performed the three pieces by John Dowland that make up the central ent'racte, and Shibe captures his big, spacious, highly percussive style. Sample one of the ripping finales, like the last of Walton's Five Bagatelles, a work that very cleverly incorporates Spanish guitar idioms without being a Spanish-style piece. None of these four works is exactly well known, and all are delightful. Arnold's Fantasy for guitar, Op. 107, is a snappy little Baroque suite, one of the highly accessible works of his old age. Shibe's Dowland is enough to make you want him to do a whole album of the stuff (listen to the breathtaking, suspended-in-mid-air Forlorn Hope...
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Add this copy of Dreams & Fancies: English Music for Solo Guitar to cart. $34.44, new condition, Sold by Revaluation Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Exeter, DEVON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2017 by Delphian.
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