Suite imaginaire: Baroque Works for Solo Flute

Featuring

Anna Garzuly-Wahlgren
Johann Martin Blochwitz
Georg Philipp Telemann
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach

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Album & Artwork

The album title, "Suite imaginaire," refers to a suite of pieces that the performer, Anna Garzuly-Wahlgren, conceived of, but which does not actually exist as a single work.

Interpretation

Performer Anna Garzuly-Wahlgren believes a metronomic diktat does not do justice to the improvised character of these Baroque pieces, which are founded on a lively pulse and freely flowing pendulum motions.

Performer Biography

Anna Garzuly-Wahlgren, the flutist on this album, has been Associate Principal Flute with the Gewandhausorchester since 1995 and was appointed professor of woodwind chamber music in Leipzig in 2017.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Georg Philipp Telemann called his pieces 'fantasias' to convey that the music should sound as though it was just thought of, presenting a spontaneous musical idea.

Instruments

Anna Garzuly-Wahlgren performs on a Powell Wooden Flute with a Mancke headjoint for this recording.

Compositional Technique

Georg Philipp Telemann's Fantasia No. 2 in A minor includes the note sequence B-A-C-H (with a minor reversal to H-C), possibly as a greeting to his friend and colleague Johann Sebastian Bach.

Composition History

The Partita in A minor by Johann Sebastian Bach may have been inspired by outstanding flutists like Pierre Gabriel Buffardin and Johann Martin Blochwitz, whom Bach possibly met in Dresden in 1717.