SUMMARY .................................................................................................................................................................................... This is the Gramophone Award-winning viol ensemble Phantasm's first disc for Avie, which won them a Gramophone Award in 2004. The eccentric Glenn Gould counted Gibbons (not J S Bach!) as his favourite composer, saying "his music has moved me more deeply than any other sound experience I can think of." Listening to this disc it's no wonder. With this unique collection juxtaposing Anthems and Madrigals with Fantasies and Dances, Phantasm are firmly in their element of the 16th century English consort tradition, infusing Gibbons' passionate polyphony and rapturous harmonies with a suaveness unmatched by any other viol ensemble performing today.
TRACK LISTING .................................................................................................................................................................................... Orlando GIBBONS (1583 - 1625)
1. Fantasia V (3:12)
2. Fantasia VI (3:41)
3. Fantasia III (3:28)
4. Fantasia I (3:16)
5. Fantasia II (3:48)
6. Fantasia IV (2:54)
7. In Nomine I (3:47)
8. In Nomine II (4:51)
9. Peascod Time (The Hunt's Up) (6:03)
10. Pavan Lord Salisbury (6:18)
11. Fantasia (1:50)
12. The Silver Swan (1:41)
13. Fantasy I (2:24)
14. Fantasy II (2:43)
15. Fantasy III (2:24)
16. Fantasy IV (2:40)
17. O Lord in thy wrath rebuke me not (3:54)
18. Hosanna to the Son of David (2:19)
19. Pavan (3:34)
20. Galliard (2:29)
21. Go from my Window (4:29)
22. In Nomine A4 (MB26) (2:58)
Total time: 74:43
Recorded 25 - 27 September 2003 at the Merton College, Oxford, England
Recording Producer: Jonathan Freeman-Attwood
Recording Engineer: Arne Akselberg
Post-production: Jonathan Freeman-Attwood and Laurence Dreyfus
