Georg Philipp Telemann Fantasia 4 in B flat, TWV 40:5 Andante, allegro, presto

Telemann's cycle of fantasias for flute dates from the late 1720's, and is among the works that he engraved himself: the sole surviving copy of the fantasias may thus be regarded as an autograph copy. Certain errors and corrections in the engraving make me wonder if he was not composing these works "on the fly" as he engraved. (He is said to have been able to engrave up to nine or ten plates per day). It is essential to understanding the fantasias to regard them as a cycle, not simply as discrete works.

The movements of the fantasia in B-Flat-Major are an Andante followed by an Allegro and a polonaise marked Presto .

The painting is a portrait of Johann Joaquim Quantz, here proudly displaying his flute with enharmonic keys for d-sharp and e-flat. Quantz proposed the Telemann fantasias as the musical material for a contest with an amateur player who had written extensively but nonsensically about flute technique.

As usual my performance is live and unedited. Thank you for listening!

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[iufiauto]

Thank you for your kind comment. As you will see in the notes to this video (look above and to the right: click on the blue (more info) to read the complete notes), the picture is indeed thought to be a portrait of Quantz. The notes also explain a point of connection Quantz had with the Telemann fantasias. Thank you for your interest!

[ClassicalMusicReview]

A beautiful sense of swelling and dynamic coupled with a lovely sense of rhetorical dimension,proportion and heirarchy make this version my favorite interpretation of this yet.Bravo!

[unagondolaunremo]

Bravo! very well played, elegant and with "fantasia"