With Vesper, Sean Shibe continues his collaboration with the Pentatone through a program entirely devoted to contemporary music. Released in 2026, the recording brings together works by Thomas Adès, Harrison Birtwistle, and James Dillon, three composers with no direct ties to the guitar, yet whose writing highlights some of its most unexpected possibilities. The unifying thread lies less in any clear stylistic or aesthetic coherence than in an exploration of contrasting sonic textures. Adès’s Forgotten Dances, which open the album, revisit the model of the Baroque suite while subjecting it to modern distortions. Shibe approaches them with a highly controlled sense of articulation, serving the rhythmic complexity of the works, but his reading, at times…

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