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Reformations: Concerto

with Dunedin Consort and Sean Shibe

,Milton Court Concert Hall
Sean Shibe sitting in front of a dark grey background, holding his guitar upright

Scottish guitarist Sean Shibe and the Dunedin Consort, Scotland’s foremost Baroque ensemble, join forces for a feast of early and recent repertoire, including Cassandra Miller’s new concerto.

Early and contemporary music often occupy a remarkably similar aural space: intimate, other-worldly and unconventional. Highlights from this selection include forays into Scotland’s early lute manuscripts, the exquisite twinges of Purcell’s viol works, and John Dowland’s seminal Lachrimae, its ‘falling tear’ motif denoting tears of both sorrow and joy. There is the premiere of a new concerto by Canadian composer Cassandra Miller, a Sinfonia by American composer Linda Catlin Smith, and music by James MacMillan and his one-time student David Fennessy.

Sean Shibe is one of the world’s finest and most innovative guitarists who, as The Guardian puts it, ‘sustains a world of intensity and introspection through playing that buzzes with vitality. The attention to detail in his playing is breathtaking’.

Tagged with: Classical music Barbican Presents

This performance will finish at approximately 8.45pm, with no interval

Produced by the Barbican

Programme

Straloch and Rowallan 'Swit Sant Nickola' from the Rowallen manuscript
'Canaries' from the Straloch manuscript
'A Scotts Tune' from the Rowallen manuscript
John Dowland No 1 'Lachrimae antiquae' from Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares
Henry Purcell Fantasia a4 in C minor
In Nomine a7 in G minor
Francesco Geminiani Sonata No 3, The last Time I came o'er the Moor
James MacMillan (arr George Duthie) From Galloway
David Fennessy I & V from Rosewoods
Linda Catlin Smith Sinfonia
Cassandra Miller Chanter (world premiere)

Commissioning partners Dunedin Consort (lead commissioner), Barbican Centre, Saffron Hall, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, Music Center De Bijloke, Ghent, Theater Heerlen.

Performers

Dunedin Consort
Sean Shibe guitar and lute

Pre-concert talk

6.30pm, Milton Court

Free

Cassandra Miller and Sean Shibe discuss their close creative collaboration in Cassandra's remarkable compositional process, which has brought Chanter to life. Her first work for classical guitar, long meetings, transatlantic voicenotes, and recordings of Sean singing have all played their part in the writing of piece that fuses Cassandra's practice with Sean's artistry and Dunedin Consort's baroque expertise. They will also explore how all three combined to programme the entire concert, which culminates in the concerto and begins from Sean's earliest repertoire through contemporary Scottish and Canadian music. 

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