Orlando GIBBONS (1583-1625) - Consorts for Viols - Phantasm

"To begin with, there are the six-part fantasies, gems like no others, composed with a fluency of idiom and with such a concentration of ideas that they're best heard as a group. Listening to them is like peering into a kaleidoscope: one can decide to follow the fortunes of one pattern over that of another, thereby gaining insight each time into the coherence of the whole." (From the booklet)

Phantasm, a quartet of viols, was founded in 1994. One of the musicians was also a founding member of Fretwork.

Contents:

Fantasies a6
1. Fantasia V
2. Fantasia VI
3. Fantasia III
4. Fantasia I
5. Fantasia II
6. Fantasia IV
In Nomines a5
7. In Nomine I
8. In Nomine II
Virginals Music a4 and a madrigal a5
9. Peascod Time (The Hunt's Up)
10. Pavan Lord Salisbury
11. Fantasia
12. The Silver Swan
Fantasies a3
13. Fantasy I
14. Fantasy II
15. Fantasy III
16. Fantasy IV
Anthems a6
17. O Lord, in thy wrath rebuke me not
18. Hosanna to the Son of David
Dances and divisions a6
19. Pavan
20. Galliard
21. Go from my Window
TT 71: 48




My other consort music posts:
William Byrd - Consort Songs (Emma Kirkby, Fretwork) : http://www.avaxhome.ws/music/byrd_consort_songs_kirkby_fretwork.html
William Lawes - For ye Violls (Fretwork) : http://www.avaxhome.ws/music/william_lawes_for_ye_violls.html
John Jenkins - Consort Music for Viols in Six Parts (Hespèrion XX) : http://www.avaxhome.ws/music/Classical/john_jenkins_consort_music.html
John Coprario - Consort Musicke (Savall, Coin, Casademunt) : http://www.avaxhome.ws/music/john_coprario_consort_musicke.html
Matthew Locke - Consort of Fower Parts (Hespèrion XX) : http://www.avaxhome.ws/music/Lossless/locke_consort_of_fower_parts_hesperion_savall.html
John Coprario - Fantaisies Royales (Savall, Coin, Casademunt): http://www.avaxhome.ws/music/gibbons_fantaisies_royales_savall.html

And from across the Channel:
Le Sieur de Sainte Colombe - Concerts à Deux Violes Esgales (I) (Savall, Kuijken) : http://www.avaxhome.ws/music/sainte_colombe_concerts_a_deux_violes_egales.html