Telemann's Lost Gamba Fantasias: EMS 31 December

[doversoul1]

Lucie Skeaping presents a concert by gamba player Robert Smith at the Little Missenden Festival in Buckinghamshire, including some fantasias by Telemann which were thought to be lost until their rediscovery in 2015.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09kjncc

[Richard Barrett]

Lucie Skeaping presents a concert by gamba player Robert Smith at the Little Missenden Festival in Buckinghamshire, including some fantasias by Telemann which were thought to be lost until their rediscovery in 2015.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09kjncc

I guess those are the ones that Paolo Pandolfo recorded for Glossa...? His recording is a beautiful thing anyway, Telemann at his most French, as you'd expect.

[BBMmk2]

Thanks for the thumbs up here, DS! One thing about GPT, is is the sheer variety in his compositions.

[doversoul1]

I guess those are the ones that Paolo Pandolfo recorded for Glossa...? His recording is a beautiful thing anyway, Telemann at his most French, as you'd expect.

According to this programme (by Lucie Skeaping and Robert Smith) Smith was the first player to record the works.

Release Dates according to Presto Classical:
Paolo Pandolfo 29th Sep 2017

https://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/classical/products/8362498--telemann-fantasias-for-viola-da-gamba-twv40-26-37

Robert Smith 28th Jul 2017

https://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/classical/products/8339456--telemann-fantasias-12-for-viola-da-gamba-twv-40-26-37

All this besides, I very much enjoyed the programme.

[Richard Tarleton]

All this besides, I very much enjoyed the programme.

As did I - I've just ordered the Pandolfo recordings on the strength of it. Thanks not least to the odd recommendation from Richard here, my viol collection has been expanding nicely recently

A Telemann CD I've enjoyed for a long time is Rachel Podger's 12 Fantasies for solo violin on Channel Classics...

[Richard Barrett]

As did I - I've just ordered the Pandolfo recordings on the strength of it. Thanks not least to the odd recommendation from Richard here, my viol collection has been expanding nicely recently

Happy to hear it! You'll find it interesting to compare the style of the gamba fantasies with those for violin. There's also a set of 12 for flute and a set of 36 (!) for harpsichord neither of which I know at all.

[BBMmk2]

According to this programme (by Lucie Skeaping and Robert Smith) Smith was the first player to record the works.

Release Dates according to Presto Classical:
Paolo Pandolfo 29th Sep 2017

https://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/classical/products/8362498--telemann-fantasias-for-viola-da-gamba-twv40-26-37

Robert Smith 28th Jul 2017

https://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/classical/products/8339456--telemann-fantasias-12-for-viola-da-gamba-twv-40-26-37

All this besides, I very much enjoyed the programme.

Doesn't seem to be available from Presto? But is on Spotify!

[MickyD]

Happy to hear it! You'll find it interesting to compare the style of the gamba fantasies with those for violin. There's also a set of 12 for flute and a set of 36 (!) for harpsichord neither of which I know at all.

I have those for flute in a vintage Accent recording by the wonderful Barthold Kuijken. I also have those for violin by Andrew Manze, but I don't know the Podger recording.

[Richard Tarleton]

Happy to hear it! You'll find it interesting to compare the style of the gamba fantasies with those for violin.

Fascinating! And both apparently from the same year, 1735. The word that sprang to mind on hearing the first side (before reading Pandolfo's helpful notes) was "sketchy" - there's something very free-form, improvisatory about many of them, interspersed with some more rollicking tunes. The violin fantasias, on the other hand, sound much more formal, with more recognisable patterns, not a million miles from Bach's unaccompanied wiolin works in places.

[Richard Barrett]

Fascinating! And both apparently from the same year, 1735. The word that sprang to mind on hearing the first side (before reading Pandolfo's helpful notes) was "sketchy" - there's something very free-form, improvisatory about many of them, interspersed with some more rollicking tunes. The violin fantasias, on the other hand, sound much more formal, with more recognisable patterns, not a million miles from Bach's unaccompanied wiolin works in places.

Yes, my thoughts exactly (the French and Italian "tastes" in a nutshell).