Four Temperaments is the second disc for Avie by the splendid English viol quartet Phantasm led by expatriate American Laurence Dreyfus; the first, a disc of viol consort music by Orlando Gibbons, claimed the distinction of "Best Early Music Recording" in 2004. The follow-up under consideration is certainly no less an achievement and may well be ...
If you feel that certain performers of early music tend to draw too much attention to their own playing and not enough to the music itself, you'll love this recording. It's not that the London-based, internationally born members of the viol consort Phantasm are in any way restrained in their playing; they are full of flash and sizzle. It's that ...
It is hard to imagine how English string consort Phantasm could improve on its prior release, the excellent Avie disc Four Temperaments. Perhaps Phantasm also realized this, for the follow-up, Avie's John Jenkins: Five-Part Consorts, represents a slight shift of gears in approach from Four Temperaments and yet manages to continue the thread of ...
Seventeenth century English composer John Jenkins wrote hundreds of pieces for various combinations of viols and for a while they constituted the most popular body of work for amateur English musicians to play at home with family and friends. The fantasies, In Nomines, and pavans for a consort of six viols collected here require a level of ...
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