℗ 2023 ECM Records
| Released | September 22, 2023 |
| Duration | 41m 44s |
| Record Label | ECM New Series |
| Genre | Classical |
Henry Purcell: Fantazias
John Holloway
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
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Fantazia X, Z. 741
Henry Purcell; John Holloway; Monika Baer; Renate Steinmann; Martin Zeller |
3:29 | |||
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Fantazia I, Z. 732
Henry Purcell; John Holloway; Monika Baer; Martin Zeller |
2:43 | |||
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Fantazia IV, Z. 735
Henry Purcell; John Holloway; Monika Baer; Renate Steinmann; Martin Zeller |
3:26 | |||
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1.4
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Fantazia V, Z. 736
Henry Purcell; John Holloway; Monika Baer; Renate Steinmann; Martin Zeller |
4:09 | |||
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1.5
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Fantazia VI, Z. 737
Henry Purcell; John Holloway; Monika Baer; Renate Steinmann; Martin Zeller |
3:34 | |||
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1.6
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Fantazia II, Z. 733
Henry Purcell; John Holloway; Monika Baer; Martin Zeller |
3:14 | |||
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1.7
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Fantazia VII, Z. 738
Henry Purcell; John Holloway; Monika Baer; Renate Steinmann; Martin Zeller |
4:19 | |||
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1.8
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Fantazia VIII, Z. 739
Henry Purcell; John Holloway; Monika Baer; Renate Steinmann; Martin Zeller |
3:19 | |||
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Fantazia IX, Z. 740
Henry Purcell; John Holloway; Monika Baer; Renate Steinmann; Martin Zeller |
4:23 | |||
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Fantazia III, Z. 734
Henry Purcell; John Holloway; Monika Baer; Martin Zeller |
2:29 | |||
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Fantazia XI, Z. 742
Henry Purcell; John Holloway; Monika Baer; Renate Steinmann; Martin Zeller |
3:10 | |||
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Fantazia XII, Z. 743
Henry Purcell; John Holloway; Monika Baer; Renate Steinmann; Martin Zeller |
3:29 | |||
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Digital Booklet
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After a programme of works thematically spun around Renaissance composer John Dowland’s Lachrimae Pavans, violinist John Holloway and his ensemble now devote their art to Baroque composer Henry Purcell’s “fantazias”. Commenting on the fantasias in his detailed liner note, Holloway remarks how “it is tempting to see their brilliant distillation of the very best of Byrd, Lawes, Jenkins and Locke as a personal farewell to a kind of music, which in Purcell’s own chamber music would soon be superseded by sonatas.”
Purcell’s fantasias are regarded as some of the finest and most intricately wrought works in the genre, embracing profound counterpoint and a great command of all of the polyphonal techniques of the time. Holloway and the ensemble’s reading of the three- and four-part fantasias offers deep insight into the compositions’ fabric, revealing a fresh perspective of a composer with, as Holloway notes, “an extraordinary ability to walk the fine line between joy and sorrow, to beautifully express the melancholy which was such a characteristic mood of his times.”
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – ECM New Series Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -2.48 -4.92 to -0.92 | -21.49 -22.93 to -20.43 | -18.18 -19.50 to -17.10 | 12 11 to 13 | |
| 1 | Fantazia X, Z. 741 | -1.81 | -21.54 | -18.0 | 13 |
| 2 | Fantazia I, Z. 732 | -4.92 | -22.93 | -19.5 | 12 |
| 3 | Fantazia IV, Z. 735 | -0.92 | -20.43 | -17.2 | 12 |
| 4 | Fantazia V, Z. 736 | -1.07 | -20.54 | -17.2 | 12 |
| 5 | Fantazia VI, Z. 737 | -2.78 | -20.85 | -17.4 | 12 |
| 6 | Fantazia II, Z. 733 | -2.52 | -22.46 | -19.2 | 12 |
| 7 | Fantazia VII, Z. 738 | -2.21 | -22.09 | -18.8 | 13 |
| 8 | Fantazia VIII, Z. 739 | -2.53 | -20.79 | -17.5 | 12 |
| 9 | Fantazia IX, Z. 740 | -2.54 | -21.98 | -18.6 | 13 |
| 10 | Fantazia III, Z. 734 | -3.25 | -22.04 | -18.8 | 12 |
| 11 | Fantazia XI, Z. 742 | -3.11 | -20.47 | -17.1 | 11 |
| 12 | Fantazia XII, Z. 743 | -2.11 | -21.80 | -18.8 | 12 |