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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 $10.50) | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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anon.: | Daphne Resonet in laudibus A toye | Bach, J C: | Harpsichord Sonata, Op. 5 No. 2 in D major | Bach, J S: | Concerto for Flute, Violin & Harpsichord in A minor, BWV1044 Keyboard Concerto No. 2 in E major, BWV1053 Keyboard Concerto No. 3 in D major, BWV1054 Keyboard Concerto No. 4 in A major, BWV1055 Keyboard Concerto No. 5 in F minor, BWV1056 Concerto for Harpsichord & Two Recorders, BWV1057 Keyboard Concerto No. 7 in G minor, BWV1058 Oboe Concerto in D minor, BWV1059 Concerto for Two Keyboards in C minor, BMV1060 Concerto for Two Keyboards in C major, BMV1061 Concerto for Two Keyboards in C minor, BMV1062 Concerto for Three Keyboards in D minor, BWV1063 Concerto for Three Keyboards in C major, BWV1064 Concerto for Four Keyboards in A minor (after Vivaldi), BWV1065 Goldberg Variations, BWV988 Chromatic Fantasia & Fugue in D minor, BWV903 Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, BWV964 Toccata in G major, BWV916 Lute Suite No. 1 in E minor, BWV996 Sonatas for Violin & Harpsichord Nos. 1-6, BWV1014-1019 Prelude in F major, BWV927 Quodlibet, BWV524 Prelude in E major, BWV937 Trio in G minor, BWV929 So oft ich meine Tobackspfeife, BWV515a Prelude in D minor, BWV940 Canon a 2 perpetuus, BWV1075 Canon super fa mi a 7 post tempus misicum, BWV1078 Prelude in D major, BWV925 Gib dich zufrieden, BWV511 Canon a 4 perpetuus, BWV1073 Canone doppio sopr'il soggetto, BWV1077 O Herzensangst, o Bangigkeit, BWV400 Nicht so traurig, nicht so sehr, BWV384 Dir, dir Jehovah, will ich singen, BWV452 Prelude in C major, BWV939 Fugue in C major, BWV952 Was betruebst du dich, mein Herze, BWV423 Vergiss mein nicht, BWV505 Chorale Prelude BWV691 'Wer nun den lieben Gott lässt walten' Capriccio sopra la lontananza del suo fratello dilettissimo, BWV992 Prelude & Fugue in A minor, BWV895 Suite in F minor, BWV823 Prelude & Fughetta in D minor, BWV899 Prelude & 'Fiddle' Fugue in D minor, BWV539 | Biber: | Harmonia artificiosa-ariosa: diversi mode accordata 120.Mensa sonora: seu musica instrumentalis Fidicinium sacro-profanum: Sonatas III, IV, V & VI | Böhm, G: | Suite No. 6 in E flat major Suite No. 8 in F minor Suite No. 9 in F minor | Bull, J: | Fantasia The duchesse of brunswick's toye [most sweet and fayre] | Byrd: | Pavan in D BK52a Pavan in D BK52b Fantasia a 3 in C BK27 Pavan & Galliard à 6 Miserere mei | Caccini, G: | Amarilli mia bella | Couperin, F: | Offertoire sur les grands jeux L'art de toucher le clavecin | Dowland: | Pavan Lachrimae Pavan, P. 15 Can she excuse my wrongs? (First Booke of Songes, 1597) | Farnaby, G: | Fantasia in D Fantasia in D The Old Spagnoletta | Frescobaldi: | Toccata Settima Toccata undecima (1627) Canzon terza Toccata in G major Fantasia sesta sopra doi soggetti Five Gagliardes | Froberger: | Capriccio No. II Fantasia No. 3 Toccata No. 11 (da sonarsi alla levatione) Ricercar II Canzona II Toccata No. 9 Allemande Suite No. 18 Suite No. 12 in C major | Gibbons, O: | Pavan | Grigny: | Cromorne en taille à deux parties | Handel: | Keyboard Suite, HWV 433 in F minor | Kuhnau: | The Biblical Sonatas | Lawes, W: | Suite No. 2 a 5 in F major : fantasia Suite No. 2 a 5 in F major : aire Suite No. 7 in D minor : fantasia Suite No. 7 in D minor : air 'almand' Suite No. 7 in D minor : 'galliard' Suite No. 3 in B-flat major : in nomine | Marini, B: | Balletto secondo a tre & a quattro | Mondonville: | 6 Sonatas Op. 3 | Morley: | Nancie | Muffat, Georg: | Sonata No. 2 from Armonico Tributo | Poglietti: | Ricercar primi toni | Purcell: | Rejoice in the Lord alway ('The Bell Anthem'), Z49 Blow up the trumpet in Sion, Z10 O God, thou art my god, Z35 Chacony in G minor - for Two Violins, Viola and Bass Z730 O God, thou hast cast us out, Z36 My heart is inditing, Z30 Remember not, O Lord, our offences, Z50 Overture in D minor Z771 Pavan in B flat major, Z750 Ground in D minor, ZD222 Suite in G major, Z 770 Pavan in A minor Z749 Three Parts upon a Ground in D major - Z731 Overture in G minor Z772 Suite No. 6 in D major, Z 667 Pavan for Three Violins and Bass in G minor - Z752 Sefauchi's Farewell, Z656 A New Ground in E minor, Z. T682 4-part Sonnata No. 3 in A minor - Z804 Fantasia No. 7 Fly swift ye hours, Z369 The father brave as e'er was Dane (from Who can from joy refrain?, Z342) Return revolting rebels (from Timon of Athens, Z632) | Rameau: | Nouvelles Suites de Pièces de Clavecin: La Triomphante L'Entretien des muses Menuet Pièces de Clavecin 1724: Les Tourbillons Sarabande La villageoise Pièces de Clavecin en concerts | Reincken: | Choralfantasie “An Wasserflüssen Babylon” | Rosenmüller: | Sonata Settima a 4 | Scarlatti, D: | Keyboard Sonata K3 in A minor Keyboard Sonata K52 in D minor Keyboard Sonata K215 in E major Keyboard Sonata K216 in E major | Scheidemann: | Praeambulum in D minor | Scheidt: | Paduan a 4 | Schmelzer: | Sacro-Profanus Concentus Musicus: Sonatas VII & IX | Tisdale: | Pavana Chromatica (Mrs. Katherin Tregians Paven) | Tomkins: | A sad Pavan for these distracted times Pavan Of Three Parts Galliard Of Three Parts | Turini: | Sonata |
Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord/organ/bass viol/virginal/narration/director ), Agnes Giebel (soprano), Marie Luise Gilles (alto), Bert van t’Hoff (tenor), Peter Christoph Runge (bass), James Bowman (countertenor), Nigel Rogers (tenor), Max van Egmond (bass), Lars Frydén (violin), Anner Bylsma (cello), Frans Brüggen (flute), Sigiswald Kuijken (violin), Wieland Kuijken (viola da gamba) & Veronika Hampe (alto viol) The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Brüggen-Consort & Leonhardt-Consort, Gustav Leonhardt “Gustav Leonhardt's patrician demeanour and Calvinistic refusal to indulge his ego run contrary to the common trend for keyboard players to emulate performing seals. And yet he has the power to transfix an
audience, as he did throughout his Wigmore Hall recital, without the need for gratuitous showmanship or wild musical gestures. Austerity and sobriety are the names of his particular performing game, tempered by
a compelling mix of passion and commitment to the broad repertoire within his command.” Andrew Stewart, The Independent, 10th January 1996 “Among the scholar-performers who have sparked and led the early music revival, surely none has played a greater part and exerted a more benificent influence on younger musicians and the public than Gustav
Leonhardt. Harpsichordist, organist, conductor, teacher, musicologist and editor are all roles in which he has distinguished himself.” Howard Schott, The Musical Times, October 1992 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Gramophone Awards 2011
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