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 the little-known viol consort music of Orlando Gibbons actually demands a bit of virtuoso treatment. This is extreme music of the Renaissance, almost as close to the edge at times as ...
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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 the little-known viol consort music of Orlando Gibbons actually demands a bit of virtuoso treatment. This is extreme music of the Renaissance, almost as close to the edge at times as the late Gesualdo madrigals with which they were nearly contemporary. The centerpieces of Phantasm's Consorts for Viols album are Gibbons' two sets of Fantasies for viols, one in six parts, the other in three. These are fantasies eminently worthy of the name: they turn on a dime rhythmically and harmonically, and Gibbons delights in sequences of moods that take the listener from one polar opposite to the other. There are moments of very heavy chromaticism, and of challenging...
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Add this copy of Orlando Gibbons: Consorts for Viols to cart. $19.82, like new condition, Sold by Streetlight_Records rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Cruz, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2004 by Avie.
Add this copy of Orlando Gibbons: Consorts for Viols to cart. $19.95, like new condition, Sold by Broad Street Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Branchville, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 2004 by Avie.
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