Phantasm
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Phantasm here offers the same flawless playing that has earned its members consistent, well-deserved accolades. Despite the brooding nature of the music, their sound is luminous and tempos are... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2016, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Winner - Early Music
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Building a Library, October 2017, First Choice
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2017, Winner - Musique Ancienne
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Phantasm is an inspired fit for this repertoire. The musicians’ distinctive sound – immediately warm but spiced with an edgy kick – is as assured as ever, ideal for Tye’s oft-madcap In nomines…Director... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th December 2017
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This is a truly outstanding album, which rewards the listener with profound aural pleasure. Through the intimacy of the viol consort these keyboard works are clothed in a new timbral mantle,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2023, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2023, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Laurence Dreyfus (himself something of a Renaissance man), combines rigorous intellect with sensitive musicianship...Ensemble and intonation are flawless; keen rhythms and feather-light bowing... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th June 2011
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Early Music
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2011, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. William Lawes: The Royal Consorts
Elizabeth Kenny (theorbo), Daniel Hyde (organ)
Phantasm
The musicians respond to Lawes's complex and variegated emotions with playing by turns buoyant and vigorous, graceful and serene. They delight, too, in his quirky wit...[in Consorts to the Organ]... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Chamber Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Baroque Instrumental
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Special offer. Gibbons: Phantasm
RecommendedConsorts for Viols
Susanna Pell (tenor viol), Asako Morikawa (bass viol)
Phantasm
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Gramophone Awards, 2004, Winner - Early Music
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Building a Library, October 2018, Also Recommended
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Locke disturbs with jagged, angular lines, wayward chromatic harmonies, and murky colours plumbing the consort’s depths; there, he delights with fleet, balletic rhythms, filmy textures, and... —
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With their ever-changing affects and tempos, these consorts require alert and agile players and, in this respect, Phantasm is unrivalled. The playing here is technically flawless: lines are... —
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Amidst such truly bewitching music-making it is difficult to isolate individual tracks. In Contrapunctus 6 ‘in Stylo Francese’ Phantasm prioritise articulatory clarity, allowing the sheer complexity... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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