GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN (1681-1767)
12 Fantasias for solo violin (Hamburg, 1735)

Fantasia no. 1 in B flat major (TWV 40:14)
01 Largo
02 Allegro
03 Grave
04 Si replica l’allegro

Fantasia no. 2 in G major (TWV 40:15)
05 Largo
06 Allegro
07 Allegro

Fantasia no. 3 in F minor (TWV 40:16)
08 Adagio
09 Presto - Grave
10 Vivace

Fantasia no. 4 in D major (TWV 40:17)
11 Vivace
12 Grave
13 Allegro

Fantasia no. 5 in A major (TWV 40:18)
14 Allegro - Presto
15 Allegro - Presto
16 Andante
17 Allegro

Fantasia no. 6 in E minor (TWV 40:19)
18 Grave
19 Presto
20 Siciliana
21 Allegro

Fantasia no. 7 in E flat major (TWV 40:20)
22 Dolce
23 Allegro
24 Largo
25 Presto

Fantasia no. 8 in E major (TWV 40:21)
26 Piacevolmente
27 Spirituoso
28 Allegro

Fantasia no. 9 in B major (TWV 40:22)
29 Siciliana
30 Vivace
31 Allegro

Fantasia no. 10 in D major (TWV 40:23)
32 Presto
33 Largo
34 Allegro

Fantasia no. 11 in F major (TWV 40:24)
35 Un poco vivace
36 Soave
37 Da capo un poco vivace
38 Allegro

Fantasia no. 12 in A minor (TWV 40:25)
39 Moderato
40 Vivace
41 Presto

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About this CD

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.