XXIV Fantasie per il Flauto

The album presents a complete recording of Georg Philipp Telemann’s XII Fantasie per il Flauto senza Basso (Twelve Fantasias for Unaccompanied Flute) interspersed with twelve new works, commissioned by City Music Foundation.

Each new composition – written by leading composers such as Colin Matthews and Ronald Corp as well as fellow CMF Artists Misha Mullov-Abbado and Alastair Penman – is a response to one of the twelve Fantasias. Together, they form a rich anthology, a hybrid work, which is both a natural extension of Telemann’s own stylistic eclecticism, and a true picture of what it is to be a recorder player in the 21st century.