Phantasm - Well-Tempered Consort I - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

In this new recording Phantasm make no excuses for arranging some of Bach's remarkable keyboard music for a consort of viols. Led by director Laurence Dreyfus they go on a conscious mission to uncover the hidden riches concealed behind the more neutral resources of the harpsichord and organ so as to liberate the fascinating characters lurking in the shadows and behind the scenes within Bach's individual polyphonic lines. In the process of fugal confrontation among three to six musicians, they come face to face with the astounding psychological insights of Bach's most radical inventions. Drawn chiefly from the two books of the Well-Tempered Clavier, the Musical Offering and the Clavier-Übung III, the repertoire chosen for this recording has an uncanny way of forging Bach's links with the old English traditions of the Fantasy and In nomine as much as leaping forward into a chromatic twelve-tone world where the raw emotions of expressionist modernism become not only audible but adventurously relevant. A second installment of The Well-Tempered Consort is already planned for 2021. Album Tracks 1. Ricercar A3 (Musical Offering BWV 1079) 2. Sinfonia No. 9 BWV 795 (Inventions and Sinfonias) 3. An Wasserflüssen Babylon BWV 653B 4. Prelude No. 19 BWV 864 (The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1) 5. Fugue No. 19 BWV 864 (The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1) 6. Fugue (Prelude and Fugue in C Major BWV 547) 7. Fugue No. 17 BWV 886 (The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2) 8. Prelude No. 22 BWV 867 (The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1) 9. Fugue No. 22 BWV 867 (The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1) 10. Fugue No. 14 BWV 859 (The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1) 11. Prelude No. 24 BWV 869 (The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1) 12. Fugue No. 24 BWV 869 (The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1) 13. Fugue No. 9 BWV 854 (The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1) 14. Aus Tiefer Not BWV 686 (Clavier-Übung