The Fantasia Connection
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Thomas Morley, in 1597, said of the fantasia, “More art may be shown than in
any other music because the composer may add, diminish, and alter at his pleasure.”
It was a sort of rebellion….by composers who wanted to move beyond standard musical forms and go wherever their imagination took them.
Only they didn’t use the word “imagination.”
In the next hour, the “fantasy,” or “fantasia,” from its origins in the Renaissance to Mozart, from Beethoven in the 19th century to Rodrigo and Vaughan Williams in the 20th.
FEATURED RECORDINGS
| Title |
Group/Artist |
Catalog # |
UPC |
| Rodrigo: Aranjuez [for Fantasía Para Un Gentilhombre or Fantasia for a Gentleman] |
Milos Karadaglic, London Philharmonic, Yannick Nezet-Seguin |
Deutsche B0020039-02 Grammophon |
028948106523 |
| Voice in the Garden [for Fantasia No. 18 by Luis de Milán] |
Christopher Wilson |
Hyperion CDH55298 |
034571152981 |
| Byrd: Complete Consort Music |
Phantasm |
Linn Records CKD 372 |
691062037228 |
| Mozart for Meditation [for Fantasia in D minor] |
Mitsuko Uchida |
Philips 446378-2 |
028944637823 |
| Beethoven: Triple Concerto, Choral Fantasy |
Berlin Philharmonic and Chorus of the German State Opera, Daniel Barenboim |
EMI 5555162 |
724355551627 |
| Beethoven/Schumann [for Schumann’s Fantasie in C major] , |
Yundi |
Deutsche Grammophon 02894810710 |
028948107100 |
| Pastyme! Music from the Court of King Henry VIII[for Greensleeves] |
I Fagiolini, John Bowen & Steven Player |
Cantoris / Griffin CRCD 2365 |
Amazon download: B01MQ2GZCB |
| Martin Carthy [for “Lovely Joan”] |
Martin Carthy |
Topic Records 340 |
5016272340022 |
| Vaughan Williams: Oboe Concerto, etc. [for Fantasia on Greensleeves] |
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Vernon Handley |
EMI Eminence CD-EMX 2179 |
0077776411422 |
| Holst, Handel & Bach[for the Fantasia on the Dargason, from the Second Suite in F, by Holst] |
Cleveland Symphonic Winds, Frederick Fennell |
Telarc CD-80038 |
089408003820 |
| Diamond: Symphony No. 1; The Enormous Room. |
Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz |
Naxos 8.559157 |
636943915721 |
