Matthew Locke: For Lovers of Consort Music

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Locke disturbs with jagged, angular lines, wayward chromatic harmonies, and murky colours plumbing the consort’s depths; there, he delights with fleet, balletic rhythms, filmy textures, and lyrical... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 5th Oct 2018
Catalogue No: CKD594
Label: Linn
Length: 72 minutes

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Locke: The Flat Consort for My Cousin Kemble, Suite No. 1 in C Minor

Work length9:43

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Phantasm

I. Fantazie

Track length3:03

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II. Courante

Track length1:20

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III. Fantazie

Track length2:12

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IV. Saraband

Track length0:31

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V. Fantazie

Track length1:33

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VI. Jigg

Track length1:04

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Locke: Consort of Four Parts, Suite No. 3 in F Major

Work length7:47

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Phantasm

I. Fantazie

Track length3:36

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II. Courante

Track length1:33

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III. Ayre

Track length1:39

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IV. Saraband

Track length0:59

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Locke: Consort of Four Parts, Suite No. 1 in D Minor

Work length9:04

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Phantasm

I. Fantazie

Track length4:19

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II. Courante

Track length1:30

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III. Ayre

Track length2:02

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IV. Saraband

Track length1:13

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Locke: Consort of Four Parts, Suite No. 2 in D Minor / D Major

Work length7:40

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Phantasm

I. Fantazie

Track length3:13

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II. Courante

Track length1:00

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III. Ayre

Track length2:02

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IV. Saraband

Track length1:25

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Locke: Consort of Four Parts, Suite No. 6 in G Major

Work length8:04

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Phantasm

I. Fantazie

Track length3:22

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II. Courante

Track length1:15

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III. Ayre

Track length2:08

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IV. Saraband

Track length1:19

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Locke: Canon ‘4 in 2’ on a plain song

Work length1:49

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Locke: Consort of Four Parts, Suite No. 5 in G Minor

Work length8:17

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Phantasm

I. Fantazie

Track length4:22

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II. Courante

Track length1:16

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III. Ayre

Track length1:41

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IV. Saraband

Track length0:58

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Locke: Consort of Four Parts, Suite No. 4 in F Major

Work length7:08

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Phantasm

I. Fantazie

Track length2:44

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II. Courante

Track length1:16

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III. Ayre

Track length1:54

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IV. Saraband

Track length1:14

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Locke: Canon ‘4 in 2’ on the hexachord

Work length1:47

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Locke: The Flat Consort for My Cousin Kemble, Suite No. 2 in B-Flat Major in B Flat Major

Work length11:34

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Phantasm

I. Fantazie

Track length2:30

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II. Courante

Track length1:41

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III. Fantazie

Track length3:05

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IV. Saraband

Track length0:57

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V. Fantazie

Track length2:09

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VI. Jigg

Track length1:12

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Phantasm adds to its critically-acclaimed repertory of English viol consort music with the first recording in what will be a series exploring the music of Matthew Locke.

• A turbulent musical personality, Locke has much to endear him to ‘lovers of consort music’; his ceaseless and obsessive quest for variety ensures music of maximum breadth and diversity.

• Director Laurence Dreyfus has created an intriguing programme that showcases Locke’s rule-bending approach featuring music that is in turn quirky and humorous, lyrical and sweet.

• Most excitingly, this release reunites the partnership of Phantasm and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny, whose last album together, Dowland: Lachrimae or Seven Tears, won both a Gramophone Award and a Diapason d’Or de l’Année.

• Locke’s part-writing, and the oftentimes orchestral dimension of his approach, are both highlighted by the opulent realization of the continuo part, devised here with supreme inventive powers by Kenny

“The result is a textural transparency and clarity that allows the ear to penetrate right through even five-part textures, bringing out the contrapuntal detail of Locke’s consorts in all their angular unlikeliness.” The Arts Desk

“Phantasm offer a consistently illuminating approach to Locke.”

Gramophone

Reviews

January 2019

Locke disturbs with jagged, angular lines, wayward chromatic harmonies, and murky colours plumbing the consort’s depths; there, he delights with fleet, balletic rhythms, filmy textures, and lyrical melodies…One of Phantasm’s most distinctive qualities is its airy (phantasmal?) sound. With weightless bowing and wispy articulation, Locke’s dance music floats and contrapuntal threads are woven into a fabric sheer as gossamer.

November 2018

Locke’s music…is surprisingly tuneful and harmonically engaging. Phantasm’s performances are compelling, their immaculate ensemble always internally balanced to best effect, their near miraculous transparent textures brilliantly captured by the engineer…It is recordings of this calibre that will attract new listeners to the English consort repertoire.

5th October 2018

In knotty times Locke wrote knotty music, with jagged edges and angular harmonies. The Birtwistle of his time? Not quite, for there’s always some lurking sweetness too, reflected in the golden tones of Dreyfus’s team, superbly recorded by Philip Hobbs. This week, then, we have one violinist sounding like a quartet and seven string players exerting their differences while being joined at the hip. It’s the best of both worlds.

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