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Phantasm - J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Consort – III - BBC Music Magazine

The album's absolute zenith is the final track, where we hear all five players in the middle Gravement section of the G major 'Pièce d'orgue'. Coupled with an authority and conviction one rarely encounters, this intensely moving and highly intimate music-making reduced me to tears on my first hearing.

This is a truly outstanding album, which rewards the listener with profound aural pleasure. Through the intimacy of the viol consort these keyboard works are clothed in a new timbral mantle, equally sumptuous and revelatory.

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BBC Music Magazine
01 April 2023