Consort Music for five and six viols

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JOHN WARD
Consort Music for five and six viols
Phantasm

[ Linn SACD / Hybrid SACD ]

Release Date: Friday 24 June 2016

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In its debut recording for Linn, acclaimed viol consort Phantasm showcases its dazzling sonority with a programme of music deserving of re-discovery. Phantasm's bold and passionate style of consort playing does full justice to John Ward's Consort music for five and six viols, recorded here complete for the very first time.

Recorded in the warm acoustic of Wadham College Chapel, Oxford this recording reveals works that seduce the listener with lyrical melodies and music of great charm. Phantasm's ability to produce such a richly expressive unified sound allows the subtlety and elegance in Ward's music to be fully realised.

John Ward was a noted madrigalist and contemporary of Orlando Gibbons. His viol music is of further interest due to an abundance of historical references to pavans, Italian 'madrigalisms' and plainsong (the latter demonstrated in Ward's three examples of the In Nomine).

Originally released in 2009, Ward: Consort Music for Five and Six Viols has been re-issued as part of Linn's ECHO series; a second chance to enjoy the best of the label's award-winning catalogue.

"Phantasm play with the kind of sympathetic interplay that you'd expect from a crack string quartet." Gramophone Awards 2010 Finalist - Early Music

Tracks:

Fantasia No. 1 a6
Fantasia No. 3 a6
Fantasia No. 6 a6
Fantasia No. 2 a6
Fantasia No. 4 a6
Fantasia No. 5 a6
Fantasia No. 7 a6
In Nomine No. 1 a6
Fantasia No. 1 a5 (Dolce Languir)
Fantasia No. 2 a5 (La Rondinella)
Fantasia No. 3 a5
Fantasia No. 4 a5
Fantasia No. 5 a5
Fantasia No. 6 a5
Fantasia No. 7 a5
Fantasia No. 8 a5
Fantasia No. 9 a5
Fantasia No. 10 a5
Fantasia No. 11 a5 (Cor Mio)
Fantasia No. 13 a5 (Non fu senze)
Fantasia No. 12 a5 (Leggiadra sei)
In Nomine a5
In Nomine No. 2 a6