The baroque spirit in all its musical shapes. Today, you hear music from England, where, early seventeenth century, the new baroque genre of fantasia boomed.
Alphonso Ferrabosco II (ca 1575 – 1628)
1 Fantasia
2 Pavin
3 A canzonetta
Paul O’Dette, lute
(CD: The Royal Lewters – Music of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I’s favourite lutenists. Harmonia Mundi HMU 907313, 2003)
William Lawes (1602 – 1645)
4 Fantasia-suite for two trebles, two basses to the organ
– I Fantasia
– II Aire 1
– III Aire 2
Theorema
(CD: John Jenkins and his ‘most esteemed friend’ William Lawes. Etcetera Records KTC 1919, 2017)
John Ward (1590 – 1638)
5 Fantasia
Richard Deering (ca 1580 – 1630)
6 Fantasia
John Okeover (ca 1595 – 1663)
7 Fantasia
Thomas Simpson (1582 – ca 1628)
8 Canzon
Flanders Recorder Quartet “Vier op ’n rij”
(CD: Recorder Quartet – Early Italian recorder music & English consort music. Brilliant Classics, 2006/2012)
John Hilton (ca 1599 – 1657)
9 Fantazia no 1
10 Fantazia no 2
11 Fantazia no 3
12 Fantazia no 5
Amandine Beyer, violin. Austrian Baroque Company conducted by Michael Oman, recorder
(CD: London calling – A collection of ayres, fantasies and musical humours. Fra Bernardo FB 2001111, 2020)
William Young (1610 – 1662)
13 Fantasia no 7 in D minor
14 Fantasia no 5 in C minor
15 Divisions on a ground
Hamburger Ratsmusik ensemble conducted by Simone Eckert, viola da gamba
(CD: Works for viola da gamba – Sonatas, suites, fantasies & dances. CPO 777 569-2, 2012)
Picture: William Lawes
