Fantasia Magdalena Hoffmann

• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714 - 1788): Fantasia in E-Flat Major, H. 348 (Transcr. for Harp):
• 1 Bach: Fantasia in E-Flat Major, H. 348 (Transcr. for Harp) 06:33
• Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710 - 1784): Prelude in C Minor, F. 29 (Transcr. for Harp):
• 2 Bach: Prelude in C Minor, F. 29 (Transcr. for Harp) 01:56
• Fantasia in A Minor, F. 23 (Transcr. for Harp):
• 3 Bach: Fantasia in A Minor, F. 23 (Transcr. for Harp) 03:56
• Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687 - 1750): Prelude in C Minor (Transcr. for Harp):
• 4 Weiss: Prelude in C Minor (Transcr. for Harp) 02:18
• Fantasia in C Minor (Transcr. for Harp):
• 5 Weiss: Fantasia in C Minor (Transcr. for Harp) 02:18
• George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759): Prelude & Allegro in A Minor, HWV 576 (Transcr. for Harp):
• 6 Handel: Prelude & Allegro in A Minor, HWV 576 (Transcr. for Harp): I. Prelude 01:16
• 7 Handel: Prelude & Allegro in A Minor, HWV 576 (Transcr. for Harp): II. Allegro 01:41
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Prelude in C Minor, BWV 921 (Transcr. for Harp):
• 8 Bach: Prelude in C Minor, BWV 921 (Transcr. for Harp) 03:25
• George Frideric Handel: Suite in G Minor, HWV 453:
• 9 Handel: Suite in G Minor, HWV 453: I. Ouverture (Transcr. for Harp) 03:47
• Partita in C Minor, HWV 444:
• 10 Handel: Partita in C Minor, HWV 444: I. Prelude (Transcr. for Harp) 01:14
• Air in G Minor, HWV 467 (Transcr. for Harp)
• 11 Handel: Air in G Minor, HWV 467 (Transcr. for Harp) 02:57
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Fantasia in D Major, H. 160 (Transcr. for Harp):
• 12 Bach: Fantasia in D Major, H. 160 (Transcr. for Harp) 02:31
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantasia in G Minor, BWV 917 (Transcr. for Harp):
• 13 Bach: Fantasia in G Minor, BWV 917 (Transcr. for Harp) 02:22
• George Frideric Handel: Prelude in D Minor, HWV 562 (Transcr. for Harp):
• 14 Handel: Prelude in D Minor, HWV 562 (Transcr. for Harp) 01:43
• Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: Fantasia in D Minor, F. 19 (Transcr. for Harp):
• 15 Bach: Fantasia in D Minor, F. 19 (Transcr. for Harp) 06:43
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Fantasia in F-Sharp Minor, H. 300 "Bachs Empfindungen" (Transcr. for Harp):
• 16 Bach: Fantasia in F-Sharp Minor, H. 300 "Bachs Empfindungen" (Transcr. for Harp) 13:32
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Sinfonia (3-Part Invention) No. 11 in G Minor, BWV 797 (Transcr. for Harp):
• 17 Bach: Sinfonia (3-Part Invention) No. 11 in G Minor, BWV 797 (Transcr. for Harp) 02:14
• Total Runtime 01:00:26

Info for Fantasia

Magdalena Hoffmann made her Deutsche Grammophon debut in 2022 with Nightscapes and shortly afterwards won an OPUS KLASSIK award as Young Artist of the Year. With the album Fantasia, the harpist now delves deeper into the past of music history. Her selection of fantasies and preludes was once written for keyboard instrument or lute by JS Bach, his sons WF Bach and CPE Bach as well as his contemporaries Handel and Weiss.

In the 18th century, the term ‘fantasia’, in use since the Renaissance, was used to describe an instrumental piece that combines seemingly contradictory elements: ‘Improvisational freedom and great formal rigour are united to form a breathing figure,’ explains Magdalena Hoffmann. On Fantasia, the harpist gives the baroque spirit of improvisation its own voice. She utilises the sound and versatility of the harp to add new dynamic and spatial dimensions to the imaginative repertoire. ‘It is precisely on this instrument that a great inner tension, a spiritual dynamic is possible, which has a liberating effect,’ she states. ‘And at the same time, the fantasy - literally as a ‘snapshot’ - can sound different every time, infinitely alive and never finally captured.’

Magdalena Hoffmann, harp

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Booklet for Fantasia