Telemann: 12 Fantasias for solo violin

Biondi, Fabio

GCD 923406

Alongside his success directing Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi has not let up on demonstrating his talents as a violinist yet his sixth CD for Glossa – 12 Fantasias by Georg Philipp Telemann – is the first to present him completely “a solo”. Telemann’s Fantasias for Solo Violin are reflections both of his full maturity as a composer and of being highlyproficient violinist himself, with the exceptionally prolific and enormously busy composer publishing sets of fantasias for solo instruments – flute, viola da gamba as well as violin – without basso continuo in Hamburg in the 1730s. The dozen fantasias recorded here are written for an unaccompanied instrument and manage to embrace both the longestablished style for polyphony in German violin music – with fugues and multi-part writing for the violin – and more modern trends – galanterien and Italian sonata and concerto influences. • Fabio Biondi plays a Ferdinando Gagliano violin from the eighteenth century and was recorded in June 2015 by Fabio Framba in the Brescian Chiesa di Sant’Eufemia in Corte Franca in Italy. If Telemann’s violin music has been greatly overlooked on record it can have no better champion than Fabio Biondi and the Glossa CD also benefits from an essay from the Director of the Bach-Archiv in Leipzig, Peter Wollny.

CD x 1

Glossa

8/24/16

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