Phantasm - William Byrd - Musical Pointers

Three discs which serendipitously arrived together for review. My heart doesn't leap at the sight of a new intégrale to consider, but Byrd's is different.

Laurence Dreyfus explains how Phantasm's sequencing contrives a continuous flow between different musical genres, with each of those often unrecognisable from their opening gestures; a tantalising voyage of discovery.

A marvellous disc in all important respects, gorgeous ounds of a viol consort to convert doubters and all the scholarship behind it; recording immaculate as to be expected, and liner notes in clear white-on-black readability.