Anyone heard Phantasm's Gibbons record that just won the Gramophone award?
This one? http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001CLZUQ/qid=1094330159/202-5649754-8869440 'Fraid not. I have a bit of Gibbons's choral music (which is great), but I've never even heard any of his other stuff. :shame:
Gibbons is one of the cornerstones of English Cathedral Music and is essential. Also check out some of his viol music as well
Only the track on G's cover CD (Peascod Time - The Hunt's Up). I love English viol music, Gibbons first and foremost. This track is very interesting, because it seems that Phantasm present the music in a very different way. Gone is the languid swooning sweetness of interpretations of the past, to be replaced with something much more forthright and robust, with a much greater sense of forward movement. I don't know whether this track is typical of the disc, but I guess that it is. Gibbons' viol music in a different light, then. I like it: I suppose it moves things on from the likes of groups like "Fretwork", who also cut out much of the languidness and give the music a sense of line.
