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“Phantasm’s playing is impeccable...” BBC Music Magazine This new recording is the only complete collection of William Byrd’s consort music and includes new hymn settings that are premiere recordings. William Byrd, who studied under Thomas Tallis, was the most celebrated Elizabethan composer of Renaissance consort music, English song, masses, Latin motets and keyboard works. Byrd’s viol music is polyphonic and full of melancholy. The performances bring out the rich, overlapping textures of the compositions creating a mesmerising sound. ‘William Byrd Complete Consort Music’ is Phantasm’s second album with Linn; the first, ‘John Ward: Consort music for five and six viols’, was a Finalist in the 2010 Gramophone Awards. Inspired by the great twentieth-century string quartets, Phantasm enjoys taking risks in its search for renditions that renew the expressive traditions of early music. Critics have called Phantasm’s performances and recordings 'intoxicating', 'revelatory', 'electrifying', 'interpretations pervaded by a truly burning spirit'. Phantasm’s recordings have won two Gramophone Awards, in addition to numerous other international nominations and citations, and are recognised as the most exciting viol consort active on the world scene today. Director Laurence Dreyfus, who is also an esteemed musicologist, has made the study of 16th and 17th century instrumental music his life’s work. He brings this vast knowledge and immense passion into Phantasm and its recordings. Phantasm has been made ‘Ensemble in Residence’ at Magdalen College, Oxford, which will enable them to present exciting series of concerts, both in the UK and internationally, in the coming months. “Phantasm's new recording is intoxicating...In three, four, five and six parts, the blend, balance, ensemble and tuning is faultless, the sound sweet but never cloying” The Independent on Sunday, 15th May 2011 “With perfect balance, immaculate tuning and exquisitely mathematical rhythm, phantasm reveal the genius in Byrd. While one viol takes the steady plainsong theme in the In Nomines the others move around it, at first decorously, then, unable to resist, dancingly.” Classic FM Magazine, August 2011 ***** “Laurence Dreyfus (himself something of a Renaissance man), combines rigorous intellect with sensitive musicianship...Ensemble and intonation are flawless; keen rhythms and feather-light bowing give a lightness of touch to the dances. The recorded balance is acutely judged, too, ensuring that Byrd's contrapuntal lines are always distinct.” BBC Music Magazine, August 2011 ***** “You’re continually surprised by the potency of Byrd’s musical imagination – the occasional quirky modulation, or the subtle use of dance rhythms which give the music such lift. Linn’s production values are as exceptional as the performances, and this release is also available as a high-quality download. Blissful.” Graham Rickson, The Arts Desk, 23rd July 2011 “The playing is quite simply divine. Phantasm have long been known for their musical precision, to which they bring to this music a warm, woody, soft-edged articulation that suits it very well. The pacing of individual pieces and sections within them seems particularly sensitively judged and Byrd's textures sublimely balanced.” Gramophone Magazine, September 2011 “there is...a sense of richness and interaction between the players which gives everything a warmth and uniformity of sound that is most satisfying.” International Record Review, July/August 2012  BBC Music Magazine
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Members of Mezzaluna plays on copies of the most complete group of surviving Renaissance recorders which today are to be found in the Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum. | | | (also available to download from $10.75) | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Shakespeare's EnglandeMusic of his Plays & People
anon.: | O, mistress mine Greensleeves Kemp's jigg (for lute) Willow song Love, love, nothing but love Heartease | Byrd: | Fantasia a 5 | Campion: | It fell on a summer's day | Dowland: | Tarleton's Riserrectione | Farnaby, G: | Jog On | Gibbons, O: | Fantazia | Johnson, R: | Where the bee sucks Full fathom five Care-charming sleep | Lawes, W: | Almain & ayre Pavane | Lupo, T: | Ayre in C | Morley: | It was a lover and his lass | Nicholson, R: | No more, good herdsman | Wigthorpe: | I am not I, of such belief | Wilbye: | Ne reminiscaris |
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| |  | Songs & SonnetsMusic for voice and viols by William Byrd
Rachel Platt (soprano) Concordia Orchestra | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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| |  | A Golden Treasury of Elizabethan Music
anon.: | Sellingers rownde Arr. Jeremy Barlow The Broadside Band Bergamasca Arr. Jeremy Barlow The Broadside Band Coventry Carol Arr. Roderick Skeaping Sneak's Noyse Passamezzo Pavan Arr. Jeremy Barlow George Weigand (lute) La Gamba The York Waits Dance: La Doune Cella The York Waits Greensleeves Arr. Jeremy Barlow John Potter (tenor), The Broadside Band Dance: Crimson Velvet The York Waites Song: There dwelt a man in Babylon Arr. Jeremy Barlow Deborah Roberts (soprano), The Broadside Band Come live with me and be my love Arr. Jeremy Barlow John Potter (tenor), The Broadside Band Bonny Sweet Robin George Weigand (lute) Sweet was the song the Virgin sang Red Byrd, The Rose Consort of Viols Dance: Staines Morris Fortune my Foe Arr. Jeremy Barlow John Potter (tenor), Deborah Roberts (soprano), The Broadside Band Dance: Dulcina / All You That Love Good Fellowes The York Waits Willow song Arr. Jeremy Barlow Deborah Roberts (soprano), The Broadside Band Dance: La Bounette The York Waits | Byrd: | Fantasia a 5 The Rose Consort of Viols | Dowland: | Go Crystal tears Caroline Trevor (soprano), The Rose Consort of Viols Lachrimae Coactae The Rose Consort of Viols | Farnaby, G: | A Toye Richard Burnett (virginal) | Gibbons, O: | This is the Record of John Red Byrd, The Rose Consort of Viols | Holborne: | The night watch The York Waits Heigh ho holiday The York Waits Cradle Pavan The York Waits | Jones, Robert: | Farewell Dear Love John Potter (tenor), The Broadside Band | Parsons, R: | In Nomine à 5 for 5 viols Fretwork | Tallis: | Libera nos, salva nos à 5 for 5 viols, lute Fretwork | Tomkins: | Sing unto God Red Byrd, The Rose Consort of Viols |
Features the typical instruments, composers and styles that were current in Elizabethan England. Dances (both courtly and rustic), songs, anthems, viol consorts, recorder consorts, lute solos and music for virginals, shawms, cornetts, curtals, etc. The album is a compilation drawn from our catalogue and serves as an excellent introduction to the fine music of this period. Recorded at Forde Abbey, Dorset, The Meeting House, Frenchay, Bristol “An excellent introduction [...] the performances are all of the highest quality [...] the period instruments convey the vivid flavour of the music [...] the recorded sound is rich and warm [...] a Cook's tour of Elizabethan music” American Record Guide | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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