Composer: John Jenkins
Performer: Phantasm, Daniel Hyde
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Linn
Catalogue: CKD677
Release: 2022
Size: 1.49 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Fantasy No. 12 in D
02. Fantasy No. 16 in d
03. Fantasy No. 14 in D
04. Fantasy No. 10 in a
05. Fantasy No. 13 in D
06. Pavan in d
07. Fantasy No. 15 in C
08. Fantasy No. 8 in c
09. Pavan in e
10. Fantasy No. 11 in a
11. Fantasy No. 4 in d
12. Fantasy No. 1 in c
13. Fantasy No. 6 in F
14. Fantasy No. 7 in c
15. Fantasy No. 5 in F
16. Fantasy No. 9 in c
17. Fantasy No. 2 in c
18. Fantasy No. 3 in c
19. Fantasy No. 17 in F
In his Four-Part Consorts, John Jenkins (1592–1678) parades his much-vaunted contrapuntal prowess that is marked by a fanatical devotion to the equality of four independent parts. Frequently turbulent and given to frenetic activity, this music charts the interactions of a band of like-minded spirits obsessed with lively struggle and restless soul-searching. The incessant peregrinations of Jenkins’s roving harmonies are heady stuff and make moments of calm and valediction all the more deserved and poignant. This recording brings to fruition Phantasm’s long-standing project to issue Jenkins’s complete consorts for four to six viols complemented by ‘Jenkins: Six-Part Consorts’and ‘Jenkins: Five-Part Consorts’ (both released by Linn). In over half of the four-part pieces, the viols are joined by organist Daniel Hyde whose sensitive shaping of original accompaniments on a fruity seventeenth-century-style instrument helps nurture Jenkins’s grandiose ambitions.