John Jenkins Fantasia à 5 no. 7 | Fretwork

Taken from a concert at London's Wigmore Hall, this Fretwork Friday video features John Jenkins' magnificent fantasia à 5 no. 7.

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Fretwork:
Emily Ashton & Asako Morikawa, treble
Joanna Levine, tenor
Richard Boothby & Reiko Ichise, bass

[tommyg]

In my world, this is some of the absolutely best music ever made.

[SimonSimon-rntm]

These players need to learn how to hold their bows correctly! They should to consult Christopher Simpson's DIVISION VIOL, and not French baroque sources!!! Of course, "FRETWORK" (what a name!) are grossly over-rated, and in no way comparable with the purity and beauty of the Dolmetsch consort recording of a Weelkes PAVAN a 6 in the 1920s! Arnold Dolmetsch would turn in his grave if he could see/ hear this lot: viol playing has got worse and worse and less and less authentic since AD revived the repertoire, thanks to upstart consorts such as this one.