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Solo Fantasias
Georg Philipp Telemann

Richard Boothby

Solo Fantasias

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Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212054420
Catnr: SIGCD 544
Release date: 06 July 2018
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Label
Signum Classics
UPC
0635212054420
Catalogue number
SIGCD 544
Release date
06 July 2018
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One of the greatest discoveries of the 21st century for the early music world, Telemann’s 12 Fantasias for Viola da Gamba were considered lost until the discovery of an original print in a private collection in Germany in 2015. Perhaps some of the composer’s finest work for solo instrument, they are described by soloist Richard Boothby as being “... by turns virtuosic and expressive, Telemann uses all the techniques of the instrument to create satisfyingly complete Fantasias that are full of diversity.

One of the UK’s leading exponents of early music, Richard Boothby founded the Purcell Quartet in 1984 was a founder member of Fretwork in 1985. Since then his career has been bound up with these two groups with whom he records and tours; and through whom he plays the broadest range of repertory for the instrument from the earliest music to the latest contemporary music commissioned for viols.

Artist(s)

Richard Boothby (gamba)

Richard Boothby has been playing the viol ever since David Fallows handed him a tenor viol in 1977. He was trying to help him with a thesis entitled ‘Wagner’s Ring and its tonality’ at Manchester University. After further study with Nikolaus Harnoncourt in Salzburg, he helped to found The Purcell Quartet in 1984 and Fretwork in 1985. He has endeavoured to enrich the viol-consort repertory with new music from today’s finest composers, from Elvis Costello to George Benjamin, from Alexander Goehr to Nico Muhly. With the Purcell Quartet, he recorded nearly 50 albums for Hyperion and Chandos; and with Fretwork over 40 albums for Virgin Classics, Harmonia Mundi USA and most recently, Signum Classics. He has arranged and transcribed much of the...
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Richard Boothby has been playing the viol ever since David Fallows handed him a tenor viol in 1977. He was trying to help him with a thesis entitled ‘Wagner’s Ring and its tonality’ at Manchester University. After further study with Nikolaus Harnoncourt in Salzburg, he helped to found The Purcell Quartet in 1984 and Fretwork in 1985.
He has endeavoured to enrich the viol-consort repertory with new music from today’s finest composers, from Elvis Costello to George Benjamin, from Alexander Goehr to Nico Muhly. With the Purcell Quartet, he recorded nearly 50 albums for Hyperion and Chandos; and with Fretwork over 40 albums for Virgin Classics, Harmonia Mundi USA and most recently, Signum Classics.
He has arranged and transcribed much of the great keyboard music of JS Bach for viols, which were recorded under the title Alio Modo; and then his arrangement of the Goldberg Variations was recorded by Fretwork. In 1998 he directed performances of Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea with the Purcell Quartet; and in 2001 directed them in a fully staged production of L’Orfeo with Mark Padmore in the title role. In 2016, he performed a programme of the fabulous French and English repertory for two bass viols with Christophe Coin. And his recording of the complete lyra viol music of William Lawes for Harmonia Mundi, USA, was released in the same year. The following year he recorded Telemann’s recently-discovered Fantasias for Signum Records.
He frequently joins Mahan Esfahani in chamber music recitals with prominent soloists.
He is professor of Viola da Gamba at the Royal College in London.

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Composer(s)

Georg Philipp Telemann

Georg Philipp Telemann (14 March 1681 – 25 June 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes. After studying in Magdeburg, Zellerfeld, and Hildesheim, Telemann entered the University of Leipzig to study law, but eventually settled on a career in music. He held important positions in Leipzig, Sorau, Eisenach, and Frankfurt before settling in Hamburg in 1721, where he became musical director of the city's five main churches. While Telemann's career prospered, his personal life was always troubled: his first wife died only a few months after their marriage, and his second wife had extramarital affairs and accumulated a large gambling debt before leaving Telemann. Telemann was one of the most prolific composers in history (at least in terms of surviving oeuvre) and was considered by his contemporaries to be...
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Georg Philipp Telemann (14 March 1681 – 25 June 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes. After studying in Magdeburg, Zellerfeld, and Hildesheim, Telemann entered the University of Leipzig to study law, but eventually settled on a career in music. He held important positions in Leipzig, Sorau, Eisenach, and Frankfurt before settling in Hamburg in 1721, where he became musical director of the city's five main churches. While Telemann's career prospered, his personal life was always troubled: his first wife died only a few months after their marriage, and his second wife had extramarital affairs and accumulated a large gambling debt before leaving Telemann.
Telemann was one of the most prolific composers in history (at least in terms of surviving oeuvre) and was considered by his contemporaries to be one of the leading German composers of the time—he was compared favorably both to his friend Johann Sebastian Bach, who made Telemann the godfather and namesake of his son Carl Philipp Emanuel, and to George Frideric Handel, whom Telemann also knew personally. Telemann's music incorporates several national styles (French, Italian) and is even at times influenced by Polish popular music. He remained at the forefront of all new musical tendencies and his music is an important link between the late Baroque and early Classical styles.

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01.
Fantasia in C Minor, TWV 40:26: I. Adagio ? Allegro
03:16
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
02.
Fantasia in C Minor, TWV 40:26: II. Allegro
02:12
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
03.
Fantasia in D Major, TWV 40:27: I. Vivace
02:35
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
04.
Fantasia in D Major, TWV 40:27: II. Andante
02:06
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
05.
Fantasia in D Major, TWV 40:27: III. Vivace
02:32
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
06.
Fantasia in D Major, TWV 40:27: IV. Presto
01:33
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
07.
Fantasia in E Minor, TWV 40:28: I. Largo
02:00
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
08.
Fantasia in E Minor, TWV 40:28: II. Presto
01:44
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
09.
Fantasia in E Minor, TWV 40:28: III. Vivace
01:36
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
10.
Fantasia in F Major, TWV 40:29: I. Vivace
04:29
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
11.
Fantasia in F Major, TWV 40:29: II. Grave
00:34
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
12.
Fantasia in F Major, TWV 40:29: III. Allegro
01:37
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
13.
Fantasia in B-Flat Major, TWV 40:30: I. Allegro
02:35
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
14.
Fantasia in B-Flat Major, TWV 40:30: II. Largo
00:59
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
15.
Fantasia in B-Flat Major, TWV 40:30: III. Allegro
01:33
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
16.
Fantasia in G Major, TWV 40:31: I. Scherzando
02:45
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
17.
Fantasia in G Major, TWV 40:31: II. Dolce
02:32
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
18.
Fantasia in G Major, TWV 40:31: III. Spirituoso
01:18
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
19.
Fantasia in G Minor, TWV 40:32: I. Andante
04:24
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
20.
Fantasia in G Minor, TWV 40:32: II. Vivace
01:37
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
21.
Fantasia in G Minor, TWV 40:32: III. Allegro
01:37
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
22.
Fantasia in A Major, TWV 40:33: I. Allegro
01:57
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
23.
Fantasia in A Major, TWV 40:33: II. Grave
01:56
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
24.
Fantasia in A Major, TWV 40:33: III. Vivace
02:11
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
25.
Fantasia in C Major, TWV 40:34: I. Presto
02:11
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
26.
Fantasia in C Major, TWV 40:34: II. Grave
02:58
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
27.
Fantasia in C Major, TWV 40:34: III. Allegro
02:05
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
28.
Fantasia in E Major, TWV 40:35: I. Dolce/Allegro
02:29
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
29.
Fantasia in E Major, TWV 40:35: II. Siciliana
01:58
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
30.
Fantasia in E Major, TWV 40:35: III. Scherzando
02:07
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
31.
Fantasia in D Minor, TWV 40:36: I. Allegro
02:12
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
32.
Fantasia in D Minor, TWV 40:36: II. Grave
01:43
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
33.
Fantasia in D Minor, TWV 40:36: III. Allegro
02:06
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
34.
Fantasia in E-Flat Major, TWV 40:37: I. Andante
03:01
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
35.
Fantasia in E-Flat Major, TWV 40:37: II. Allegro
02:13
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
36.
Fantasia in E-Flat Major, TWV 40:37: III. Vivace
02:27
(Georg Philipp Telemann) Richard Boothby
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