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Karim Sulayman/Sean Shibe review – tenor and guitarist beguile in wide-ranging and joyful recital

From a lament to the Lebanese capital to Sephardic love songs, melancholy Monteverdi to Purcell and Britten, the pair’s ‘Broken Branches’ programme felt spontaneous and engaging

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Sean Shibe: Vesper album review – ever-imaginative guitar virtuoso brings mind-expanding flights of fancy

This thoughtfully curated programme of work by three British composers explores the guitar’s expressive potential, and new arrangements of Harrison Birtwistle’s piano originals are a revelation

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LSO/Adès review – the mood-boosting musical equivalent of a Sad lamp

Thomas Adès curated and conducted a dazzling concert of contemporary works by Alex Paxton and Poul Ruders, plus his own Aquifer alongside a radiant Sibelius 3

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Shibe/BBCPhil/Bihlmaier review – vivid, vibrant and exuberant virtuosity

Mark Simpson’s vibrant new work for Sean Shibe was the centrepiece of a polychromatic Prom that began with Strauss and ended with a vividly told Symphonie Fantastique

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Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique at the Proms review: raises a delicious shudder

4/5 Sean Shibe shined on guitar at this Prom before the witches swooped in

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From folk to house, Sean Shibe arrives down under

Guitarist Sean Shibe ranges from ancient folk tunes to music inspired by Edinburgh's nineties rave scene during his tour with the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

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Sean Shibe/Dunedin Consort/Butt review – Scottish links bring the rich and strange

With music that ranged across four centuries culminating in the premiere of Cassandra Miller’s Chanter for guitar and strings, this concert showcased the skill of Shibe, a truly compelling performer

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Deep listening: the haunting sonic world of Cassandra Miller

Her intimate compositions take existing melodies that she refracts, rethinks and expands into compelling new pieces. Ahead of the premiere of a new work for guitarist Sean Shibe, Cassandra Millers talks about process, pleasures and sleep chanting

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From Monkey Man to The Regime: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Dev Patel directs and stars in a John Wick-style action thriller, and Kate Winslet goes full dictator in a wickedly funny new drama

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Sinfonia Cymru/Shibe review – virtuosity and versatility in tech-themed programme

Works by contemporary composers including Julia Wolfe, Freya Waley-Cohen and David John Roche were part of an exhilarating concert

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Classical home listening: Sean Shibe; French music for two pianos – and Anthony Burgess’s guitar quartets

The star Scottish guitarist turns to South America; Charles Owen and Katya Apekisheva play Poulenc and more; and the Mēla Guitar Quartet premiere works by the author of A Clockwork Orange

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Manchester Collective/Sean Shibe: Rosewood review – boundary-pushing and genre-defying

The combination of musical curiosity, exceptional playing and Zen-like atmosphere made for an electrifying start to this eight-concert tour

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Classical home listening: The Planets from Daniel Harding and the BRSO; Sean Shibe and Karim Sulayman

The British conductor and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra record a revelatory performance of Holst’s ‘mood pictures’, while the guitarist-tenor duo cross continents and genres on the atmospheric Broken Branches

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Sean Shibe: Lost and Found review – bonkers but brilliantly curated

Shibe’s new ‘emporium of curiosities’ interprets modern music, millennium-old melodies and Moondog, a composer who slept rough in New York dressed as a Viking

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The week in classical: Igor Levit; Sean Shibe – review

The star pianist goes to the far side with Shostakovich and Ronald Stevenson, while the Scots guitarist reins it in

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