Originally released on Avie, the viol consort Phantasm’s ‘Four Temperaments’ is now part of Linn’s ECHO re-issue series. Representing the golden age of Elizabethan England are four distinct musical personalities - or ‘temperaments’ - the dissonant Robert Parsons, the cool Ferrabosco the Elder, the warm and sanguine Thomas Tallis, and the polar opposites of ecstasy and melancholy of William Byrd. Critics have described the award-winning ensemble’s performances and recordings as 'intoxicating', 'revelatory', 'electrifying' and ‘pervaded by a truly burning spirit'.
