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Jenkins
Fantasias


Jay Bernfeld: dessus de viole
Les Voix Humaines (Susie Napper & Margaret Little):
violas da gamba | violes de gambe
Eric Miles: clavecin et orgue


ACD2 2205

Apart from a few vocal numbers, Jenkins's output was essentially instrumental. Probably because of the musicians he had at his disposal where he resided, his roughly eight hundred compositions blend the sonorities of the gambas - especially the bass and the lyra viol - the violin and the organ, with a variety and an imagination that never falter. (The lyra viol is a small bass viol that can play harmonically, from a tablature, like the lute, and for which nearly sixty different chords have been inventoried.) Having remained mostly in manuscript form, this production is very difficult to date with precision, except for what can be deduced from the evolution in compositional technique.
- FRANÇOISE FILIATRAULT, 2001

The 5 Bells     [7:28]
  1 Almaine     [1:35]
  2 Coranto     [0:34]
  3 The Bells     [3:22]
  4 The Mourners     [1:08]
  5 The Ringers     [0:49]

  6 Fantasia No. 5 [VdGS No. 5]     [3:18]

  7 Fantasia No. 17 [VdGS No. 17]     [3:57]

  8 Fantasia No. 18 [VdGS No. 18]     [3:40]

Suite in d, D     [7:54]
  9 Ayre     [1:49]
10 Almand     [2:22]
11 Almand     [3:43]

12 Fantasia No. 14 [VdGS No. 14]     [3:30]

13 Fantasia No. 8 [VdGS No. 8]     [3:18]

Suite en ré majeur / in D minor     [14:43]
14 Aire     [2:05]
15 Almaine     [1:37]
16 Almaine     [2:46]
17 Coranto     [1:15]
18 Coranto     [2:13]
19 Saraband     [1:47]
20 The Pleasing Slumber     [3:00]

21 Fantasia No. 7 [VdGS No. 7]     [3:20]

22 Air and Divisions en ré mineur / in D minor     [5:23]

23 Fantasia No. 18 [VdGS No. 19]     [4:04]



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