Artist: Phantasm
Title: Jenkins: Four-Part Consorts
Year Of Release: 2022
Label: Linn Records
Genre: Classical
Quality: 24bit - 96kHz FLAC Cover & booklet
Total Time: 01:16:04

Tracklist:

1. Fantasy No. 12 in D (4:18)
2. Fantasy No. 16 in d (4:11)
3. Fantasy No. 14 in D (3:25)
4. Fantasy No. 10 in a (3:41)
5. Fantasy No. 13 in D (3:22)
6. Pavan in d (5:18)
7. Fantasy No. 15 in C (4:28)
8. Fantasy No. 8 in c (4:15)
9. Pavan in e (5:52)
10. Fantasy No. 11 in a (3:29)
11. Fantasy No. 4 in d (3:54)
12. Fantasy No. 1 in c (3:38)
13. Fantasy No. 6 in F (2:53)
14. Fantasy No. 7 in c (5:14)
15. Fantasy No. 5 in F (3:32)
16. Fantasy No. 9 in c (3:52)
17. Fantasy No. 2 in c (3:57)
18. Fantasy No. 3 in c (2:52)
19. Fantasy No. 17 in F (4:03)

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. 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.