{"id":14618,"date":"2025-12-26T17:39:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T16:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/masters-of-the-polyphony\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T17:47:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:47:41","slug":"masters-of-the-polyphony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/masters-of-the-polyphony\/","title":{"rendered":"Masters of the Polyphony"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>William Byrd declared him a \u201cmusical genius\u201d. Nearly 400 years later, Glenn Gould would write how his music moved him \u201cmore deeply than any other sound experience\u201d he could think of. The composer in question is Orlando Gibbons. Regarded as one of the last representatives of the English school of polyphony, Gibbons composed his relatively slim but exceptionally versatile oeuvre during the transitional period between the Elizabethan era and the Baroque. On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Gibbons\u2019 death in 2025, the <strong>Phantasm Viol Consort<\/strong> has developed several programs that present his rarely performed works to German audiences, alongside pieces by some of his contemporaries.<br><br>In March 2025, Phantasm launched the concert series POLYPHONIC ENCOUNTERS at the St. Elisabeth Church in Berlin-Mitte: four concerts dedicated entirely to polyphony, each highlighting a composer particularly renowned for this compositional technique. In the third concert of the series, the ensemble celebrates one of Britain\u2019s most famous composers: Henry Purcell (1659\u20131695), known as the Orpheus Britannicus. Following the concert, Phantasm invites guests to their traditional reception at the bar followed by a book launch: Jean-Claude Kuner will introduce the original English version of the 2022 novel Parsifal\u2019s Seduction by Laurence Dreyfus, founder and director of Phantasm. The book will be published in December 2025 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wolke-verlag.de\/shop\/dreyfus-parsifals-seduction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wolke Verlag<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>27 December 2025, Wigmore Hal<\/strong>l<br>A COMPLETE ENGLISH CHEST <strong>Laurence Dreyfus, treble viol &amp; artistic director \/ Emilia Benjamin, treble viol \/ Jonathan Manson, tenor viol \/ Heidi Gr\u00f6ger, tenor viol \/ Christopher Terepin, bass viol \/ Markku Luolajan-Mikkola, bass viol <\/strong>Works by O. Gibbons, J. Ward, T. Tomkins &amp; W. Lawes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>28 December 2025, Klassik im Alten Kloster, Bad Saulgau \/ 29 December 2025, Kirchensaal der Herrnhuter Br\u00fcdergemeinde, K\u00f6ngsfeld im Schwarzwald\n<\/strong>GIBBONS ANNIVERSARY<br><strong>Laurence Dreyfus, treble viol &amp; artistic director \/ Emilia Benjamin, treble viol \/ Jonathan Manson, tenor viol \/ Heidi Gr\u00f6ger, tenor viol \/ Martin Jantzen, bass viol \/ Markku Luolajan-Mikkola, bass viol\n<\/strong>Works by O. Gibbons, T. Tomkins &amp; J. S. Bach<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>11 January 2026, St. Elisabeth-Kirche, Berlin<\/strong><br>HENRY PURCELL, <em>PROPHETIC PATHFINDER\n<\/em><strong>Laurence Dreyfus, treble viol and director \/ Emilia Benjamin, treble viol \/ Jonathan Manson, tenor viol \/ Heidi Gr\u00f6ger, tenor and treble viols \/ Markku Luolajan-Mikkola, bass viol\n<\/strong><strong>Guests: Ulrich Wolff, bass viol \/ Lea Rahel Bader, bass viol \/ Jean-Claude Kuner, book presentation\n<\/strong>Works by H. Purcell \/ book launch: <em>Parsifal\u2019s Seduction<\/em> by Laurence Dreyfus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Phantasm Viol Consort celebrates the polyphony.<a href=\"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/masters-of-the-polyphony\/\" class=\"more-link\">MORE &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-news.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14618"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14623,"href":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14618\/revisions\/14623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}