Phantasm

Phantasm

Phantasm is dancing on the tightrope on which only the brightest minds dare to tread: the art of interweaving melodies in such a way that each sounds good on its own and as a whole. Polyphonic risk-taking, radical innovation and downright threats to the established musical order reign supreme in this recital-for-three, with visionary works by Tye, Byrd, Gibbons and Locke, and a pinch of Bach's Kunst der Fuge.

Programme

• A Marian challenge

• Christopher Tye

  Sit Fast

  c1505-before 1573

• Elizabethan visions

• Elway Bevin

  Browning

  c1554-1638
• Thomas Tomkins

  Fantasia XIV

  1572-1656
• William Byrd

  Sermone Blando 
  Fantasia I 
  Fantasia II 
  Fantasia III

  c1540-1623

• Jacobean voices

• Orlando Gibbons

  Two Fantasies in Three Parts

  1583-1625

• Commonwealth vagaries

• Matthew Locke

  Flat Consort no. 1 in C minor 'for my cousin Kemble' 
  Fantazie 
  Courante 
  Fantazie-Saraband 
  Fantazie 
  Jigg

  1622-1677

• Restorations venerations

• Henry Purcell

  Three Fantazias

  1659-1695

• Arts of fugue

• Johann Sebastian Bach

  Prelude and Fugue No. 19 (uit: Das wohltemperierte Klavier, BWV 864)

  Programme subject to change

  1685-1750

Musicians

• Jonathan Manson, Markku Luolajan-Mikkola viola da gamba
• Laurence Dreyfus viola da gamba, musical direction