Artist: 
Magdalena Hoffman

Fantasia: CD

£11.99

For her second DG recording, Fantasia, the harpist has travelled further back in time to focus on the music of the Baroque period. Here she showcases her instrument in a selection of fantasias and preludes originally written for keyboard or lute by Johann Sebastian Bach, his sons Wilhelm Friedemann and Carl Philipp Emanuel, and his contemporaries Handel and Weiss. For her second DG recording, Fantasia, the harpist has travelled further back in time to focus on the music of the Baroque period. Here she showcases her instrument in a selection of fantasias and preludes originally written for keyboard or lute by Johann Sebastian Bach, his sons Wilhelm Friedemann and Carl Philipp Emanuel, and his contemporaries Handel and Weiss.

Tracklist:

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788)
1.    Fantasia in E flat major Wq deest (H 348)
 
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710–1784)
2.    Prelude in C minor F 29
3.    Fantasia in A minor F 23
 
Silvius Leopold Weiss (1686–1750)
4.    Prelude in C minor
5.    Fantasia in C minor WSW 9
 
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (1685–1759)
Prelude & Allegro in A minor HWV 576
6.    Prelude
7.    Allegro
 
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
8.    Prelude (Fantasia) in C minor BWV 921
 
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
9.    Overture from Suite in G minor HWV 453:1
10.    Prelude from Partita in C minor HWV 444:1
11.    Air in G minor HWV 467
 
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
12.    Fantasia in D major Wq 117:14 (H 160)
 
Johann Sebastian Bach
13.    Fantasia in G minor (Fantasia duobus subjectis) BWV 917 
 
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
14.    Prelude in D minor HWV 562
 
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
15.    Fantasia in D minor F 19
 
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
16.    Fantasia in F sharp minor “C. P. E. Bachs Empfindungen” Wq 67 (H 300)
 
Johann Sebastian Bach
17.    Sinfonia (Fantasia) No. 11 in G minor BWV 797

Release date: 6 September, 2024