Purcell: Fantazias
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Composer: Henry PurcellPerformer: Rose Consort of Viols
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-10-06
Music Label: Naxos
Soundtracks:
- Four-Part Fantazias: No.5 in B flat, Z.736
- Four-Part Fantazias: No.8 in d, Z.739
- Four-Part Fantazias: No.4 in g, Z.735
- Fantazia in F, Upon One Note, Z.745
- Four Part Fanzias: No.7 in c, Z.738
- Four-Part Fantazias: No.6 in F, Z.737
- Four-Part Fantazias: No.12 in d, Z.7843
- Three-Part Fantazias: No.3 in g, Z.734
- Three-Part Fantazias: No.2 in F, Z.733
- Three-Part Fantazias: No.1 in d, Z.732
- In Nomine Of Six Parts in g, Z.746
- Four-Part Fantazias: No.9 in a, Z.740
- Four-Part Fantazias: No.10 in e, Z.741
- Four-Part Fantazias: No.11 in G, Z.742
- In Nomine Of Seven Parts, 'Dorian', Z.747
Music reviews of Purcell: Fantazias
Music Review: Beautiful and expressive performances
Rating: 5 Stars
This is a superb (and cheap!) recording of some of Purcell's most beautiful, expressive and intimate music. Whilst France was watching big operas with big orchestras, Italians were writing operas and concertos and the Germans and Australians were making very exciting music with strings, brass and woodwind, the English were still composing viol consorts! It is as if the "Renaissance" didn't end in England until sometime late in the 17th century!
However, rather than remaining stuck in the past, music in England continued to develop in its own unique way. Purcell's viol consorts are not inferior to the concerti grossi of his Italian contemporary, Arcangelo Corelli, in any way, even though they are ostensively composed in a style which was already obsolete in Italy even in Monteverdi's time 80 years earlier!
These works are beautiful, strange, lyrical and sublime and quite unlike any other music from this period in history. Yes, Henry Purcell was a musical genius.
There is nothing cheap about this recording. It would still be amongst the best interpretations of these works, and a potential first choice, even if this recording was at a normal full price.
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