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Tomkins: Choral Works
Phantasm
The renowned Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, joined here by former Magdalen College viol consort-in-residence, Phantasm, showcase the amazing breadth and diversity of this masterly voice in English composition. Five verse anthems, jewels in Tomkins’s choral output, have come down to us with ensemble accompaniment, allowing choir and consort to combine forces as it’s likely they once did in the Elizabethan Chapel Royal. Phantasm also perform some of Tomkins’s most striking works for three to six viols, revealing the composer’s very personal approach to the consort style.
CD
Genre: Concert
Release Date: 01/08/2016
Sound Formats: 16bit 44.1khz / 24bit 96khz
Ratio: Audio Only 24/96 khz
Subtitles:
Catalogue Number: OACD9040D
Conductor(s):
Daniel Hyde
Daniel Hyde
Orchestra(s):
Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford
Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford
Artist(s):
Phantasm; Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford; Daniel Hyde
Phantasm; Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford; Daniel Hyde
"Thomas Tomkins was one of the great tragic figures of English music. A magnificently prolific composer, his misfortune was to see every pillar of his life - musical, personal, religious, political and financial - demolished during the Civil War and its aftermath.
The selection comprises several glorious anthems and viol fantasias and the superb Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis from Tomkins's Fifth Service. And surprisingly, overall mood is far from doleful. The interpretations are forthright and plangent, the young soloists spirited, and the blend between choir and viol is excellent. Far from being broken by misfortune, Tomkins emerges as a proto-Beethoven figure, his sonorous or sinuous polyphony proclaiming the indestructibility of the human spirit, even when battered by ill-fate." (The Times ★★★★)
The selection comprises several glorious anthems and viol fantasias and the superb Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis from Tomkins's Fifth Service. And surprisingly, overall mood is far from doleful. The interpretations are forthright and plangent, the young soloists spirited, and the blend between choir and viol is excellent. Far from being broken by misfortune, Tomkins emerges as a proto-Beethoven figure, his sonorous or sinuous polyphony proclaiming the indestructibility of the human spirit, even when battered by ill-fate." (The Times ★★★★)
Phantasm
The renowned Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, joined here by former Magdalen College viol consort-in-residence, Phantasm, showcase the amazing breadth and diversity of this masterly voice in English composition. Five verse anthems, jewels in Tomkins’s choral output, have come down to us with ensemble accompaniment, allowing choir and consort to combine forces as it’s likely they once did in the Elizabethan Chapel Royal. Phantasm also perform some of Tomkins’s most striking works for three to six viols, revealing the composer’s very personal approach to the consort style.
CD
Genre: Concert
Release Date: 01/08/2016
Sound Formats: 16bit 44.1khz / 24bit 96khz
Ratio: Audio Only 24/96 khz
Subtitles:
Catalogue Number: OACD9040D
Conductor(s):
Daniel Hyde
Daniel Hyde
Orchestra(s):
Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford
Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford
Artist(s):
Phantasm; Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford; Daniel Hyde
Phantasm; Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford; Daniel Hyde
"Thomas Tomkins was one of the great tragic figures of English music. A magnificently prolific composer, his misfortune was to see every pillar of his life - musical, personal, religious, political and financial - demolished during the Civil War and its aftermath.
The selection comprises several glorious anthems and viol fantasias and the superb Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis from Tomkins's Fifth Service. And surprisingly, overall mood is far from doleful. The interpretations are forthright and plangent, the young soloists spirited, and the blend between choir and viol is excellent. Far from being broken by misfortune, Tomkins emerges as a proto-Beethoven figure, his sonorous or sinuous polyphony proclaiming the indestructibility of the human spirit, even when battered by ill-fate." (The Times ★★★★)
The selection comprises several glorious anthems and viol fantasias and the superb Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis from Tomkins's Fifth Service. And surprisingly, overall mood is far from doleful. The interpretations are forthright and plangent, the young soloists spirited, and the blend between choir and viol is excellent. Far from being broken by misfortune, Tomkins emerges as a proto-Beethoven figure, his sonorous or sinuous polyphony proclaiming the indestructibility of the human spirit, even when battered by ill-fate." (The Times ★★★★)
