After his acclaimed CD recording "Sei Solo" with the Sonatas and Partitas of Bach, the baroque specialist Thomas Pietsch, living in Hamburg, is now dedicated to the solo works of Telemann. In January 2017 he took the 12 fantasies in the ev.-luth. Church of Aum?hle near Hamburg. This makes Thomas Pietsch once again a great contribution to Hamburg's musical life and the Hanseatic tradition of the 17th and 18th century. In 1735 Georg Philipp Telemann, who was then a businessman, switched ads in different Hamburg daily newspapers and offered his new composition "12 fantasies for the violin without a bass, 6 of which are provided with joints, 6 are gallanties." Thomas Pietsch himself writes: "Telemann, who had completely absorbed the French taste, knew how to put Galante to his feet, his gallant spellings illuminating the imaginings by their light, flattering, pointe, and humorous manner."
