Catalogue # CKD372

“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.

Byrd:
Fantasia à 3 No. 3
Browning (The Leaves be Green)
Te Lucis Ante Terminum a4 In Nomine No. 3 a 5
Christe Redemptor
In nomine a5 (V)
Fantasia a 4
Sermone Blando a3
Fantasia a 5
Two parts in one in the 4th above Fantasia a 3
Christe Qui Lux Es Et a4 I
In nomine a5 (II) on the sharp
Christe Qui Lux Es Et a4 II
In Nomine a 4 in D minor
Fantasia a 6 (I & II)
Miserere a4
Fantasia a 4
Christe Qui Lux Es Et a4 III
In nomine a5 (V)
In nomine a4 I
Pavan & Galliard à 6
Fantasia a6 (III) (‘to the vyolls’)
Pavan à 5
Sermone Blando a 4 (II)
Fantasia a3 (II)
Queen’s Goodnight (Prelude and Ground)

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