The English Viol Consort

Available for over a year

Catherine Bott joins Laurence Dreyfus and his celebrated viol group, Phantasm at the 2009 Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music. Here they provide a guided tour of the Golden Age of English viol music, the culmination of which are the Fantasies and In Nomines of Henry Purcell. Catherine and Laurence offer an illustrated insider's view to this music, explaining the ideas that inspired it and highlighting many of the characteristics that define it. They draw on music by Robert Parsons, William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, John Jenkins and William Lawes - all of whom provided the catalyst for the Fourth Fantasia of Henry Purcell.