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The viol consort Phantasm and its director, Laurence Dreyfus, state their own justifications for their unorthodox treatment of Bach's keyboard music: "The composer's dense web of voices [gains] in clarity when a single viol player performs an individual part," and "a focus on the ever-changing ways Bach crafts relationships between voices sheds new light on the music's affective intentions." Listeners are apparently buying it, for this third and final installment of Bach transcribed for viol consort landed on classical best-seller charts in early 2023. It is true that Bach thought nothing of rearranging his music for new instruments, but the viol consort idea would have made little sense to him; he lived far from the centers of viol music in both space and time. Yet this way of playing Bach is strangely compelling. One might say that Bach purified his treatment of counterpoint as his career proceeded, to the point where his final work, The Art of Fugue, may have had no specified instrumentation at all. The performances here capture something of that purification. Phantasm's performances are in no way authentic, and they have the flavor of something alien to the music, but neither do they distract the listener. The intense focus on the counterpoint that Dreyfus and company are aiming at is achieved. This final volume includes not just pieces from the two Well-Tempered Clavier books but from the Clavierübung, where Bach introduced some of his deepest ideas. The rabbit-hole feeling that marks a successful Bach performance is definitely here, even if not all listeners want to follow Phantasm down this path.
© James Manheim /TiVo
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Phantasm, Ensemble, MainArtist - Laurence Dreyfus, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist
2023 Outhere 2023 Linn Records
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Phantasm, Ensemble, MainArtist - Laurence Dreyfus, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist
2023 Outhere 2023 Linn Records
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Phantasm, Ensemble, MainArtist - Laurence Dreyfus, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist
2023 Outhere 2023 Linn Records
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Phantasm, Ensemble, MainArtist - Laurence Dreyfus, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist
2023 Outhere 2023 Linn Records
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Phantasm, Ensemble, MainArtist - Laurence Dreyfus, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist
2023 Outhere 2023 Linn Records
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Phantasm, Ensemble, MainArtist - Laurence Dreyfus, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist
2023 Outhere 2023 Linn Records
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Phantasm, Ensemble, MainArtist - Laurence Dreyfus, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist
2023 Outhere 2023 Linn Records
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Phantasm, Ensemble, MainArtist - Laurence Dreyfus, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist
2023 Outhere 2023 Linn Records
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Phantasm, Ensemble, MainArtist - Laurence Dreyfus, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist
2023 Outhere 2023 Linn Records
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Phantasm, Ensemble, MainArtist - Laurence Dreyfus, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist
2023 Outhere 2023 Linn Records
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Phantasm, Ensemble, MainArtist - Laurence Dreyfus, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist
2023 Outhere 2023 Linn Records
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Phantasm, Ensemble, MainArtist - Laurence Dreyfus, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist
2023 Outhere 2023 Linn Records
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Phantasm, Ensemble, MainArtist - Laurence Dreyfus, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist
2023 Outhere 2023 Linn Records
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Phantasm, Ensemble, MainArtist - Laurence Dreyfus, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist
2023 Outhere 2023 Linn Records
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Phantasm, Ensemble, MainArtist - Laurence Dreyfus, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist
2023 Outhere 2023 Linn Records
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Phantasm, Ensemble, MainArtist - Laurence Dreyfus, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist
2023 Outhere 2023 Linn Records
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Phantasm, Ensemble, MainArtist - Laurence Dreyfus, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist
2023 Outhere 2023 Linn Records
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Phantasm, Ensemble, MainArtist - Laurence Dreyfus, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist
2023 Outhere 2023 Linn Records
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Phantasm, Ensemble, MainArtist - Laurence Dreyfus, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist
2023 Outhere 2023 Linn Records
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Phantasm, Ensemble, MainArtist - Laurence Dreyfus, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist
2023 Outhere 2023 Linn Records
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Phantasm, Ensemble, MainArtist - Laurence Dreyfus, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist
2023 Outhere 2023 Linn Records
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Phantasm, Ensemble, MainArtist - Laurence Dreyfus, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist
2023 Outhere 2023 Linn Records
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Phantasm, Ensemble, MainArtist - Laurence Dreyfus, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist
2023 Outhere 2023 Linn Records
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Phantasm, Ensemble, MainArtist - Laurence Dreyfus, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist
2023 Outhere 2023 Linn Records
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Phantasm, Ensemble, MainArtist - Laurence Dreyfus, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist
2023 Outhere 2023 Linn Records
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Phantasm, Ensemble, MainArtist - Laurence Dreyfus, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist
2023 Outhere 2023 Linn Records
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Phantasm, Ensemble, MainArtist - Laurence Dreyfus, Conductor, Arranger, MainArtist
2023 Outhere 2023 Linn Records
Album review
The viol consort Phantasm and its director, Laurence Dreyfus, state their own justifications for their unorthodox treatment of Bach's keyboard music: "The composer's dense web of voices [gains] in clarity when a single viol player performs an individual part," and "a focus on the ever-changing ways Bach crafts relationships between voices sheds new light on the music's affective intentions." Listeners are apparently buying it, for this third and final installment of Bach transcribed for viol consort landed on classical best-seller charts in early 2023. It is true that Bach thought nothing of rearranging his music for new instruments, but the viol consort idea would have made little sense to him; he lived far from the centers of viol music in both space and time. Yet this way of playing Bach is strangely compelling. One might say that Bach purified his treatment of counterpoint as his career proceeded, to the point where his final work, The Art of Fugue, may have had no specified instrumentation at all. The performances here capture something of that purification. Phantasm's performances are in no way authentic, and they have the flavor of something alien to the music, but neither do they distract the listener. The intense focus on the counterpoint that Dreyfus and company are aiming at is achieved. This final volume includes not just pieces from the two Well-Tempered Clavier books but from the Clavierübung, where Bach introduced some of his deepest ideas. The rabbit-hole feeling that marks a successful Bach performance is definitely here, even if not all listeners want to follow Phantasm down this path.
© James Manheim /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 27 track(s)
- Total length: 01:04:56
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Phantasm Laurence Dreyfus
- Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
- Label: Linn Records
- Genre: Classical
2023 Outhere 2023 Linn Records
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