TELEMANN 12 Fantasias for Solo Violin
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Composer or Director: Georg Philipp Telemann
Genre:
Instrumental
Label: Glossa
Magazine Review Date: 10/2016
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 63
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: GCD923406
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Composition | Artist Credit |
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(12) Fantaisies for Violin without Continuo |
Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer
Fabio Biondi, Violin Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer |
Author: Lindsay Kemp
Fabio Biondi’s classy playing ensures that they are attractive listening. Clear, sweet-toned and generously bowed, it does not over-complicate matters with fussy articulation or effects and keeps ornamentation mainly to a few rather ravishingly delivered decorative flourishes. Each movement has convincing atmosphere and pace, from the proud, stately bearing of the Grave of No 4 to the delicious lilt of No 9’s Siciliana to the expertly set-out Allegros of No 5. In short, there is a beguiling naturalness here that has not always been Biondi’s thing, and that suits this music so well that even the whirlingly fast tempi he chooses for some movements are in no danger of jarring.
Not that there aren’t other ways of doing it, as Andrew Manze’s more strongly characterised (but in other ways rather similar-sounding) recording from 1994 shows. Rachel Podger is somehow not her usual lively self in her 2001 reading, leaving Biondi up there with Manze as a very recommendable choice.
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