Vivid, beguiling and intensely intimate, [Mompou's] Suite compostelana offers both blueprint and guide for the musical-emotional pilgrimage signalled by the album title...In Shibe’s hands it exudes a powerfully restorative combination of wisdom and childlike wonder that extends throughout the album in waves of colour, through singing lines and crisp, evocative rhythms.

His exquisite sense of space and unfolding invites comparison with late conductor Sergiu Celibidache’s Zen-influenced performance practice.

Shibe subverts expectations from the off: another artist might be tempted to despatch the de Falla's arresting opening chord with splashy flamboyance, yet in Shibe’s hands it takes on an austere, arid beauty which immediately announces that this musical journey through Spain is going to be more akin to a pilgrimage than a package-tour...this is yet another indispensable album from one of today’s most thoughtful and original young artists – I warrant you’ll revisit it time and again, discovering new riches on every hearing.

One of the most compelling and touching recitals for the instrument I can recall.

What’s really striking is the way in which Shibe sustains a world of intensity and introspection through playing that buzzes with vitality. The attention to detail in his playing is breathtaking; nothing interrupts the flow of the music, and nothing is done purely for effect.

Though its programme is centred on Spanish repertoire, with sidesteps to nearby France, the mood is much less picturesque and more introspective than most Spanish excursions suggest…All this perfectly suits Shibe’s great gift for painting notes in what seems a thousand colours, with multiple dynamic shadings en route.