’Excepcionial’ Award
Enrique MartÃnez Miura - Scherzo magazine - March 2010
"... This is a gem. Very warmly recommended."
Mark Sealy - Classical.Net - 25 January 2010
"... Chalk up another success for Phantasm. They do a real service for Ward’s consort music ..."
Barry Brenesal - Fanfare - December 2009
"... this album is pretty much self-recommending." ****
Lee Passarella - AudiophileAudition.com - 22 January 2010
"... There is a lightness in the musicians’ bows that betrays the communal pleasure of performance and jaunty phrasing in the three fantasias built on Italian songs" ****
Rick Jones - Classics FM magazine - November 2009
"... Phantasm’s perceptive and compelling playing, Linn’s demonstration-quality recording all conspire to make this disc a sheer delight and not a little revelation "
Marc Rochester - International Record Review - 6 October 2009
"As an ensemble, the members of Phantasm perform with authority and exceptional musical awareness. They achieve a remarkable blend of instrumental timbres and breathe as one with their bows. The results on this disc are stunning; but, equally, the recording successfully captures individual voices, so much so that the listener feels almost part of the ensemble"
Julie Anne Sadie - Gramophone magazine - November 2009
"... The overall sound is intimate, and it effectively transports the listener back to another age." ****
Rad Bennett - SoundStage.com - 5 October 2009
".. Phantasm’s playing is impeccable, alternating exposing motifs and coalescing in sonorities all the richer for being so perfectly in tune. Their performance is supported by surround-sound recording, re-creating the warm acoustic of an Oxford Chapel. Tudor viol music seldom sounds better than this." *****
George Pratt - BBC Music Magazine - October 2009
"... luxuriant, pure-grained performances ..."
Kenneth Walton - The Scotsman - 21 September 2009
"... Playing of real eloquence ..."
Andrew MacGregor - BBC Radio 3 CD Review - 19 September 2009
"... warmly resonant playing ..."
Nicholas Kenyon - The Observer - 6 September 2009