Phantasm (music group)
Encyclopedia
Phantasm is a viol
consort
based in England
. It was founded in 1994
by Laurence Dreyfus
.
They have recorded on the Channel Classics Records
, GMN, Simax, and Avie Records
labels.
Viol
The viol is any one of a family of bowed, fretted and stringed musical instruments developed in the mid-late 15th century and used primarily in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. The family is related to and descends primarily from the Renaissance vihuela, a plucked instrument that preceded the...
consort
Consort of instruments
A consort of instruments was a phrase used in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to indicate an instrumental ensemble. These could be of the same or a variety of instruments. Consort music enjoyed considerable popularity at court and in households of the wealthy in the...
based in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. It was founded in 1994
1994 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1994.-January–February:*January 25 – Alice in Chains release their Jar of Flies album which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, becoming the first ever EP to do so....
by Laurence Dreyfus
Laurence Dreyfus
Laurence Dreyfus, FBA is a Bach scholar. He was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, and attended Cherry Hill High School West in New Jersey. He earned a B.A., Yeshiva U., studied cello under Leonard Rose, at the Juilliard School, later reading Musicology at the Columbia University...
.
They have recorded on the Channel Classics Records
Channel Classics Records
Channel Classics Records is a record label from the Netherlands, specializing in classical music. The managing director and producer is C. Jared Sacks, who grew up in Boston. Sacks was schooled as a professional horn player at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam...
, GMN, Simax, and Avie Records
Avie Records
Avie Records is an independent classical music recording company founded in 2002 by Simon Foster and Melanne Mueller.Many major classical music recording artists like Trevor Pinnock, conductors Michael Tilson Thomas, Semyon Bychkov and viol consort Phantasm record for Avie, which has released more...
labels.
Members
- Laurence DreyfusLaurence DreyfusLaurence Dreyfus, FBA is a Bach scholar. He was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, and attended Cherry Hill High School West in New Jersey. He earned a B.A., Yeshiva U., studied cello under Leonard Rose, at the Juilliard School, later reading Musicology at the Columbia University...
, treble viol and director - Wendy Gillespie, treble viol
- Jonathan MansonJonathan MansonJonathan Manson is a Scottish cellist and viol player. Born in Edinburgh, he studied cello with Jane Cowan and later went on to the Eastman School of Music in New York, where he studied with Steven Doane and Christel Thielmann. He studied viola da gamba with Wieland Kuijken in The Hague.While a...
, tenor viol - Markku Luolajan-MikkolaMarkku Luolajan-MikkolaMarkku Luolajan-Mikkola is a Finnish baroque cellist and viol player. Born in Helsinki, he studied cello with Arto Noras at the Sibelius Academy, where he received his diploma in 1983...
, bass viol
Discography
- Complete Fantasies for Viols by Henry PurcellHenry PurcellHenry Purcell – 21 November 1695), was an English organist and Baroque composer of secular and sacred music. Although Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements into his compositions, his legacy was a uniquely English form of Baroque music...
- 1996 - Still Music of the Spheres by William ByrdWilliam ByrdWilliam Byrd was an English composer of the Renaissance. He wrote in many of the forms current in England at the time, including various types of sacred and secular polyphony, keyboard and consort music.-Provenance:Knowledge of Byrd's biography expanded in the late 20th century, thanks largely...
and Richard MicoRichard MicoRichard Mico was an English composer. He was born in Taunton, Somerset, the eldest of threesons of Walter Mico. The family, originally called "Micault", had immigrated to England as French Huguenots several generations earlier...
- 1997 - Art of Fugue by J. S. Bach - 1998
- Byrd Song by William Byrd with Ian PartridgeIan PartridgeIan Partridge CBE is a retired English lyric tenor, whose repertoire ranged from Monteverdi, Bach and Handel, the Elizabethan lute songs, German, French and English songs, through to Schoenberg, Weill and Britten, and on to contemporary works. He formed a renowned vocal-piano duo with his sister...
and Geraldine McGreevy - 1999 - Consorts in Four and Five Parts by William LawesWilliam LawesWilliam Lawes was an English composer and musician.-Life and career:Lawes was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire and was baptised on 1 May 1602...
- 2000 - Consort Music by Matthew LockeMatthew Locke (composer)Matthew Locke was an English Baroque composer and music theorist.-Biography:As a boy, Locke was trained in the choir of Exeter Cathedral, under Edward Gibbons, the brother of Orlando Gibbons...
- 2001 - Consorts in Six Parts by William Lawes - 2002
- Consorts for Viols by Orlando GibbonsOrlando GibbonsOrlando Gibbons was an English composer, virginalist and organist of the late Tudor and early Jacobean periods...
- 2005 - Four TemperamentTemperamentIn psychology, temperament refers to those aspects of an individual's personality, such as introversion or extroversion, that are often regarded as innate rather than learned...
s - William Byrd, Alfonso Ferrabosco, Robert ParsonsRobert Parsons (composer)Robert Parsons was an English composer.Although little is known about the life of Robert Parsons, it is likely that in his youth he was a choir boy, as until 1561 he was an assistant to Richard Bower, Master of the Children Choristers of the Chapel Royal.Parsons was appointed Gentleman of the...
, Thomas TallisThomas TallisThomas Tallis was an English composer. Tallis flourished as a church musician in 16th century Tudor England. He occupies a primary place in anthologies of English church music, and is considered among the best of England's early composers. He is honoured for his original voice in English...
- 2005 - Six-Part Consorts by John JenkinsJohn Jenkins (composer)John Jenkins , English composer, was born in Maidstone, Kent, and died at Kimberley, Norfolk.Little is known of his early life. The son of Henry Jenkins, a carpenter who occasionally made musical instruments, he may have been the "Jack Jenkins" employed in the household of Anne, Countess of Warwick...
- 2006 - Five-Part Consorts by John Jenkins - 2007
- William Byrd's "Complete Consort music"; 2011
Awards
- Henry Purcell's Complete Fantasies for Viols; 1997 Gramophone AwardGramophone AwardThe Gramophone Awards are one of the most significant honours bestowed on recordings in the classical record industry, often referred to as the Oscars for classical music. The winners are selected annually by critics for the Gramophone magazine and various members of the industry, including...
for baroque non-vocal performance. - Orlando Gibbons's Consorts for Viols; 2004 Gramophone Award for early music.