GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN (1681-1767): 12 Fantaisies for Viola da Gamba, TWV 40:26-37 (World Premiere Recordings).

Description: Dating from 1735, this set of gamba fantasies is chock-full of playing techniques and forms of expression, all couched in the then-de rigueur galant style while also offering five fugal or canonically imitative movements in a nod to the instrument’s 17th-century heyday. Thomas Fritzsch (viola da gamba).