JS Bach: The Well-Tempered Consort II
Phantasm, Laurence Dreyfus
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2021, Editor's Choice
Dreyfus’s transcriptions generate fresh insights into the workings of Bach’s contrapuntal ingenuity and humanity – the latter not least because of the communal nature of the discourse, liberated...
JS Bach: The Well-Tempered Consort II
Phantasm, Laurence Dreyfus
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2021, Editor's Choice
Dreyfus’s transcriptions generate fresh insights into the workings of Bach’s contrapuntal ingenuity and humanity – the latter not least because of the communal nature of the discourse, liberated...
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This is the second instalment in Phantasm's series of recordings dedicated to the keyboard music of J. S. Bach. The first was named a Chamber Choice by BBC Music Magazine and Prise de son d exception by Diapason. This new recording explores further riches from both volumes of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier arranged by director Laurence Dreyfus for viol consort. Reimaging Bach's keyboard polyphony as consort music has the dual benefits of expanding Bach's chamber oeuvre whilst also presenting these highly-cherished works as seemingly new, never before heard gems, ripe for discovery. Despite its pedagogical inception Bach's musical imagination imbues the Well-Tempered Clavier with intellectually complex fugues and preludes bursting with dancing melodies. Phantasm offers a wealth of insights into these highly artistic works revealing sonorities and colours that are both dynamically expressive and revelatory.
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Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineMay 2021Editor's Choice
June 2021
Dreyfus’s transcriptions generate fresh insights into the workings of Bach’s contrapuntal ingenuity and humanity – the latter not least because of the communal nature of the discourse, liberated from the controlling fingers of a single performer...With continuo absent, the result sounds simultaneously ‘ancient and modern’...A rarefied pleasure perhaps, but an infinitely illuminating one too.
May 2021
Phantasm have crafted a story with and through Bach’s music. A wholly wondrous album.