Ward: Consort music for five and six viols

Phantasm's debut recording on Linn Records explores the music of the Jacobean composer John Ward.

A 24-bit 192 kHz studio master for this album is available from the Linn Records website.

CKD339  77 minutes 50 seconds
'Phantasm, in recording the works for five and six viols, has given us what we may hope is the first of two recordings of Ward's complete instrumental music. As an ensemble, the members of Phantasm pe ...
BBC Music Magazine
'Unlike Purcell's intricately contrapuntal viol fantasias, these beautifully flowing pieces from a generation earlier sound almost like vocal music transcribed for instruments (some even have Italian ...