WARD Fantasies and Verse Anthems
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Composer or Director: John Ward
Genre:
Chamber
Label: Linn
Magazine Review Date: 12/2014
Media Format: Super Audio CD
Media Runtime: 59
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: CKD427
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Fantasia 2 a4 |
John Ward, Composer
John Ward, Composer Phantasm |
Praise the Lord, O my soul |
John Ward, Composer
John Ward, Composer Magdalen College Choir, Oxford Phantasm |
Fantasia 5 a4 |
John Ward, Composer
John Ward, Composer Phantasm |
Mount up, my soul |
John Ward, Composer
John Ward, Composer Magdalen College Choir, Oxford Phantasm |
Fantasia 1 a4 |
John Ward, Composer
John Ward, Composer Phantasm |
Down caitive wretch/Prayer is an endless chain |
John Ward, Composer
John Ward, Composer Magdalen College Choir, Oxford Phantasm |
Fantasia 3 a4 |
John Ward, Composer
John Ward, Composer Phantasm |
How long wilt thou forget me |
John Ward, Composer
John Ward, Composer Magdalen College Choir, Oxford Phantasm |
Fantasia 4 a4 |
John Ward, Composer
John Ward, Composer Phantasm |
Let God arise |
John Ward, Composer
John Ward, Composer Magdalen College Choir, Oxford Phantasm |
Fantasia 6 a4 |
John Ward, Composer
John Ward, Composer Phantasm |
This is a Joyful, Happy, Holy Day |
John Ward, Composer
John Ward, Composer Magdalen College Choir, Oxford Phantasm |
Author: David Fallows
Here Phantasm present the six ‘Oxford’ fantasias for four viols – perhaps implying their view that the remainder (all in a single late manuscript) are not by the same composer. And they join forces with the Magdalen choir to give us more or less his whole surviving verse anthems, including a couple of pieces that required an element of reconstruction (nicely done by Ian Payne) and seem to be still unpublished.
Phantasm play with their customary verve, just occasionally preferring energy to rhythmic steadiness but never losing the shape of the relatively short fantasias. For the verse anthems, Daniel Hyde opts for a slightly steadier approach, not always keeping the energy alive for these much larger and more ambitious pieces but always allowing the music to breathe and show its details. The current Magdalen choir has a range of marvellous voices used for the solos, with particularly admirable diction, especially from the trebles.
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