Luigi De Filippi
12 Fantasias for solo violin
- Type CD
- Label Challenge Classics
- UPC 0608917267921
- Catalog number CC 72679
- Release date 27 November 2015
About the album
Telemann’s solo violin Fantasias were published in 1735, some fifteen years after the appearance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for unaccompanied violin; we do not know if Bach’s masterpieces were known to Telemann, but he certainly didn’t share Bach’s preoccupation to demonstrate how a simple solo instrument could handle very extended forms, and how contrapuntal writing could convey the impression of polyphonic constructions. If anything, Telemann’s gems remind one of Bach’s cello suites: clever music, overflowing with melodic wealth and charm. Telemann also moved swiftly from one source of inspiration to another, pouring out with unhampered ease exquisite melodies, sketches of learned fugues, folk-like cantilenas, nursery rhymes tunes. Each Fantasia consists of three or four short movements, with a duration which goes from as little as four minutes to a maximum of 11 minutes: nothing to be compared with Bach’s divine verbosity. Fantasia no 12 contains a lovely parody of Giuseppe Tartini’s “Didone abbandonata “, published the year before in Italy: here Telemann echoes (and makes fun of) Tartini’s shrill dissonances, derived from the Istrian folk repertoire: one more demonstration that these great men were fully aware of all the latest developments that took place in the whole of Europe.
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11Fantasia No.1 in B-flat major, TWV 40:14
07:16 -
12Fantasia No.2 in G major, TWV 40:15
04:47 -
13Fantasia No.3 in F minor, TWV 40:16
04:22 -
14Fantasia No.4 in D major, TWV 40:17
04:55 -
15Fantasia No.5 in A major, TWV 40:18
04:29 -
16Fantasia No.6 in E minor, TWV 40:19
07:36 -
17Fantasia No.7 in E-flat major, TWV 40:20
07:37 -
18Fantasia No.8 in E major, TWV 40:21
05:14 -
19Fantasia No.9 in B minor, TWV 40:22
05:44 -
110Fantasia No.10 in D major, TWV 40:23
04:24 -
111Fantasia No.11 in F major, TWV 40:24
05:58 -
112Fantasia No.12 in A minor, TWV 40:25
04:13
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