repertoire

Orlando Gibbons: Three Fantasies a6 (MB 35, 36, 33) – (1612) 8´
Thomas Tomkins: Two Fantasies a6 (no. 18, no. 17) (1620) 6´
Thomas Tomkins: Pavan and Galliard a6 (1620) 5´
William Lawes: Consort Set a6 en Si b (Fantazia, Aire, In Nomine) (1635) 9´

Orlando Gibbons: In Nomine a5 (MB 28) 5’
Orlando Gibbons: Three Fantasies a6 (MB 31, 32, 34) (1612) 8´
Orlando Gibbons: Go from my Window (MB40) (1615) 4´
Orlando Gibbons: Pavan and Galliard a6 (MB 41, 42) (1612) 5´

ARTISTS

Phantasm Viol Consort
Laurence Dreyfus, conductor and viola da gamba

Programme

Seventeenth-century England was a land of considerable political, religious, social and cultural upheaval. William Shakespeare premièred his most celebrated plays between 1600 and 1611 and died in 1616 in an artistic climate in which music occupied a privileged place at court, in the streets, in the salons of the nobility, and in theatres. Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Tomkins and William Lawes were among the prominent figures who provided the soundtrack to life in the British Isles. Their compositions, including pavanes, galliards, and fantasias (themes with variations), delighted the English audiences of their time, who would no doubt applaud the work of the Phantasm Viol Consort for their interpretative rigour and adherence to the spirit of the first quarter of the 17th century.