Phantasm - Jenkins: Four-Part Consorts - Gramophone

This album marks the culmination of a longstanding project to record all of Jenkins’s music for four to six viols.

The other pleasure is the gentle sophistication of the playing, lines and argument imbued with taut alertness and a panoply of different colours and shading. Jenkins was especially sensitive to the affects of different keys and, as alluded to above, Phantasm have realised each separate emotional world impeccably, whether from fantasy to fantasy or when a new affect rolls in mid-piece: for instance, when Fantasy No 15 in C suddenly slides from serene steady flow to a playful dance, at which point their lively conversation is a joy. Surely both Jenkins and Mace would have approved.