Telemannia

G. P. Telemann, M. Friedl – Fantasie per flauto traverso e contrabbasso

Marta Kratochvílová – baroque traverso and piccolo
Marian Friedl – double bass

By combining the music of today and the music of the Baroque, we invite all listeners to discover uncharted musical landscapes!

When Georg Philipp Telemann composed his 12 Fantasies for flute in the late 1720s, he could hardly have imagined that this extraordinary work would still be performed three hundred years later! Even more surprisingly, he could not have foreseen that it would be taken up in the future by the baroque flute player Marta Kratochvílová and the jazz double bass player Marian Friedl. The cycle was originally conceived as a set of unaccompanied virtuoso pieces. In our version, however, Marian Friedl has added a new line to Telemann‘s part.

Marta Kratochvílová on a new treatment of the Telemann ́s cycle: “Telemann‘s Fantasies have fascinated and attracted me for many years. So why do I play them with double bass, even though they are written for solo traverso? I have always played these pieces with an internal idea of two voices. Marian has taken up the second voice convincingly both as composer and performer, with great care, respect and sensitivity to the fragility of the wooden baroque transverse flute. Telemann probably did not intend all the Fantasias to be performed at once. However, we think of them as a compact cycle. The flute and double bass also appear as solo instruments in the almost hour-long flow of music.”

Marian Friedl on a new treatment of the Telemann ́s cycle: “On the presented CD you will find the well-known Fantasie for solo traverso by G. P. Telemann, to which I added my own bass part. I approached this by analyzing Telemann‘s techniques across the entire expanse of the 12 Fantasias suite as well as in each measure, and then tried to use the widest possible range of techniques in a similar way in my own line. I did not create just a „bass part“ and certainly not a „bass part in the baroque spirit“. On the contrary, I wanted to communicate with Telemann, so through using my line to guide Marta into a different concept of phrases, dynamics, and time; I worked with shifting the harmony and metro-rhythmic line.”

Účinkují

Marian Friedl
double bass, folk instruments, vocals

Marian Friedl, musician, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue, is a member of several music projects of various specializations, in which he sings, plays the double bass, folk flutes, bagpipes, clarinet, small dulcimer and other instruments. He has performed on more than two dozen CDs, often with leading performers on the Czech or foreign scene. In 2014 he recorded, for example, the album NOCZ and Iva Bittová (Hevhetia), in 2016 Divé Husy with Jitka Šuranská and Martin Krajíček (nominated for the Anděl Music Award 2016) or in the same year the album Mateřština with Jiří Slavík (Anděl 2016 in the world music category) . He embodied his personal vision of Moravian world music in the author’s project Lambs and Wolves, whose album of the same name won the Anděl 2017 award in the folk category. In 2019 he released his solo album Beskydy Odyssey (Indies Scope), the neo-folklore project Píseň ZEMĚ (Animal Music), as a sideman he also performs on the albums of the Norwegian-Czech band NOCZ and Choir (Hevhetia) or the Slovak Dances project of composer and conductor Petr Breiner (Naxos).

 

Marta Kratochvílová
traverso

Marta Kratochvílová studovala hru na flétnu na Konzervatoři v Pardubicích a poté na JAMU v Brně. V roce 2000 zahájila studium ve Francii na Conservatoire National de Région de Strasbourg, kde se specializovala na barokní a renesanční příčnou flétnu ve třídě J. F. Alizona a N. Hadden a na komorní hudbu ve třídách M. Gestera a P. Blanca. Zúčastnila se mistrovských kursů a stáží vedených významnými osobnostmi jako Paul McCreesh, Barthold Kuijken, Jan-Latham Koenig, Sir Neville Marriner. Ve Francii intenzivně působila jako hráčka na barokní a renesanční příčnou flétnou v souborech Le Parlement de Musique, Bohemia duo, se souborem NotaBene. V rámci renesančních workshopů (Ferrara, Mnichov, Stuttgart, Basilej) pravidelně účinkovala s Consortem renesančních fléten ze Strasbourgu.

Od roku 2010 žije v ČR a nadále pravidelně koncertuje po celé Evropě. Úzce spolupracuje především na komorních a sólových projektech s umělci jako Christophe Coin, Jan Čižmář, Karel Fleischlinger, Joel Frederiksen, Martin Jakubíček, Petr Kolař, Ján Krigovský, Marcin Świątkiewicz, Marc Vonau či Petr Wagner. Je také vedoucí consortu renesančních příčných fléten Tourdion.

Jako pedagožka s dlouholetými zkušenostmi bývá zvána k prezentacím a masterclass po celé Evropě a zároveň vyučuje soukromě hru a dobovou interpretaci na barokní a renesanční traverso.