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Fantaisies pour la basse de violle

Sara Ruiz

Label
Challenge Classics
Catalogue number
CC 720034
EAN / barcode
0608917200348
Release date
14 August 2025

Telemann's Fantasias represent the most important current discovery in the gamba repertoire and are destined to become one of the cornerstones of the repertoire. The compositions, full of musical references to many different styles, are a compendium of how Italian and French influences permeated the purely German language to create a specific style, but it is also an example of visionary creativity, as Telemann anticipates many structural elements that define what will become the galant or pre-classical style. Moreover, using the genre Fantasia, Telemann shows us a portrait full of audacity, freshness and compositional freedom hitherto unknown. Sara Ruiz plays on an anonymous viola da gamba dated around 1700. Her performance and interpretation are different from all the others which have been recorded so far: she chooses to emphasize the rotundness and the beauty of the tone, while her technical skills allow her to create a drama which is absent from most of competitors' accounts. She conveys a great variety of tones, moods, tempos and colours. She does not hesitate to make use of a nice legato where a pleasant melody is encountered: she makes her instrument sing almost like a voice. With her, each Fantasia tells a story, every time a particular and thrilling one.

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Tracklist

  1. 01 Fantasia 1 TWV 40:26: I. Adagio-Allegro-Adagio-Allegro 03:26
  2. 02 Fantasia 1 TWV 40:26: II. Allegro 02:58
  3. 03 Fantasia 2 TWV 40:27: I. Vivace 02:26
  4. 04 Fantasia 2 TWV 40:27: II. Andante 02:45
  5. 05 Fantasia 2 TWV 40:27: III. Vivace da Capo 02:27
  6. 06 Fantasia 2 TWV 40:27: IV. Presto 01:31
  7. 07 Fantasia 3 TWV 40:28: I. Largo 02:17
  8. 08 Fantasia 3 TWV 40:28: II. Presto 01:34
  9. 09 Fantasia 3 TWV 40:28: III. Vivace 01:35
  10. 10 Fantasía 4 TWV 40:29: I. Vivace 04:17
  11. 11 Fantasía 4 TWV 40:29: II. Grave 00:35
  12. 12 Fantasía 4 TWV 40:29: III. Allegro 01:27
  13. 13 Fantasia 5 TWV 40:30: I. Allegro 02:42
  14. 14 Fantasia 5 TWV 40:30: II. Largo 01:03
  15. 15 Fantasia 5 TWV 40:30: III. Allegro 01:26
  16. 16 Fantasia 6 TWV 40:30: I. Scherzando 02:33
  17. 17 Fantasia 6 TWV 40:31: II. Dolce 03:07
  18. 18 Fantasia 6 TWV 40:31: III. Spirituoso 01:14
  19. 19 Fantasia 7 TWV 40:32: I. Andante 03:24
  20. 20 Fantasia 7 TWV 40:32: II. Vivace 01:37
  21. 21 Fantasia 7 TWV 40:32: III. Allegro 01:33
  22. 22 Fantasia 8 TWV 40:33: I. Allegro 01:47
  23. 23 Fantasia 8 TWV 40:33: II. Grave 01:50
  24. 24 Fantasia 8 TWV 40:33: III. Vivace 02:06
  25. 25 Fantasia 9 TWV 40:34: I. Presto 02:35
  26. 26 Fantasia 9 TWV 40:34: II. Grave 03:01
  27. 27 Fantasia 9 TWV 40:34: III. Allegro 01:38
  28. 28 Fantasia 10 TWV 40:35: I. Dolce-Allegro-Dolce-Allegro 02:05
  29. 29 Fantasia 10 TWV 40:35: II. Siciliana 02:17
  30. 30 Fantasia 10 TWV 40:35: III. Scherzando 01:48
  31. 31 Fantasia 11 TWV 40:36: I. Allegro 02:18
  32. 32 Fantasia 11 TWV 40:36: II. Grave 01:32
  33. 33 Fantasia 11 TWV 40:36: III. Allegro 02:06
  34. 34 Fantasia 12 TWV 40:37: I. Andante 02:43
  35. 35 Fantasia 12 TWV 40:37: II. Allegro 01:55
  36. 36 Fantasia 12 TWV 40:37: III. Vivace 01:55

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