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Phantasm - William Byrd, Richard Mico: Still Music of the Spheres (1997) CD-Rip

Phantasm - William Byrd, Richard Mico: Still Music of the Spheres (1997) CD-Rip

BAND/ARTIST: Phantasm

  • Title: William Byrd, Richard Mico: Still Music of the Spheres
  • Year Of Release: 1997
  • Label: Simax Classics
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: FLAC (image+.cue,log,scans)
  • Total Time: 59:33
  • Total Size: 338 Mb
  • WebSite:
Tracklist:

William Byrd (c1543-1623)
[1] Fantasia a6 II
[2] In nomine a5 II
[3] In nomine a5 III
[4] In nomine a5 IV
[5] In nomine a5 V
[6] Browning a5
[7] Fantasia a6 III
[8] Fantasia a5 ('Two parts in one in the 4th above')
Richard Mico (c1590-1661)
[9] Fancy no. 5
[10] Fancy no. 19
[11] Pavan no. 2
[12] Fancy no. 4a
[13] Fancy no. 14
[14] Fancy no. 18
[15] Pavan no. 3
[16] Fancy no. 10 (Ut re mi fa sol la)
[17] Fancy no. 9
[18] Pavan no. 4
[19] Fancy no. 6
[20] Fancy no. 7

Performers:
Phantasm
Laurence Dreyfus — treble viol
Wendy Gillespie — treble and tenor viols
Jonathan Manson — tenor viol
Markku Luolajan-Mikkola — bass viol
with
Martha McGaughey — tenor viol [1]-[8]
Alison McGillivray — bass viol [1] & [7]

The performances on this CD come as a revelation. William Byrd is a great and vivacious composer. Richard Mico is more than a museum novelty. I had some lingering doubts, based on earnest but amateurish performances heard in the past. Phantasm brings all the virtuosity of a major string quartet to these consort fantasies and pavanes: perfect tuning, incisiveness bow work, highly individuated phrasing, judiciously varied tempi and uses of rubato. Above all, a heightened sense of the total piece of music, something more than a pleasant flow of notes. A quick tour of the sample feature on this page will be worth more than a thousand and one of my words. And this Byrd in the shopping cart is worth all the Bushes extant.


Phantasm - William Byrd, Richard Mico: Still Music of the Spheres (1997) CD-Rip




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