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Pondering the Baroque violin repertoire, one would be forgiven to think of Johann Sebastian Bach's works and little else. Acclaimed English violinist Thomas Bowes courageously sets out to change this preconceived notion with TELEMANN FANTASIAS, a rare and remarkable full performance of all of Georg Philipp Telemann's solo violin fantasias. Telemann is to violinists what Mozart is to keyboard players deceptively simple on paper, notoriously difficult to master in actuality. Bowes, never a stranger to a challenging repertoire, expertly articulates the cheer, spirit, and zest of these pieces with a strikingly light-hearted panache, as if it could be no different. Indeed, upon listening to this rendition, it is easy to imagine a future in which public performances of Bach's pious partitas are habitually rounded off by Telemann's buoyant secular fantasias. For Bowes, this future is now. Album Tracks 1. Fantasia no. 1 in B flat major~Largo 2. Fantasia no. 1 in B flat major~Allegro 3. Fantasia no. 1 in B flat major~Grave 4. Fantasia no. 1 in B flat major~Allegro (da capo) 5. Fantasia no. 2 in G major~Largo 6. Fantasia no. 2 in G major~Allegro 7. Fantasia no. 2 in G major~Allegro 8. Fantasia no. 3 in F minor~Adagio 9. Fantasia no. 3 in F minor~Presto 10. Fantasia no. 3 in F minor~Grave-Vivace 11. Fantasia no. 4 in D major~Vivace 12. Fantasia no. 4 in D major~Grave 13. Fantasia no. 4 in D major~Allegro 14. Fantasia no. 5 in A major~Allegro-Presto-Allegro-Presto 15. Fantasia no. 5 in A major~Andante 16. Fantasia no. 5 in A major~Allegro 17. Fantasia no. 6 in E minor~Grave 18. Fantasia no. 6 in E minor~Presto 19. Fantasia no. 6 in E minor~Siciliana 20. Fantasia no. 6 in E minor~Allegro 21. Fantasia no. 7 in E flat major~Dolce 22. Fantasia no. 7 in E flat major~Allegro 23. Fantasia no. 7 in E flat major~Largo 24. Fantasia no. 7
