Geoff Brown
The Times
March 2007

For 17th-century English music at its most adventurous, the composer William Lawes remains the first port of call. But Jenkins, his long-lived contemporary, might be the connoisseur’s choice, and he couldn’t have better advocates than the viol group Phantasm. Here, beautifully recorded, are his five-part consorts: music of piquant melodies, alarming harmonies and shifting metres that grow more potent with each hearing.