The cycle of 12 Fantasias per flauto traverso solo is a set of virtuoso compositions for unaccompanied baroque flute. In our version, Marian Friedl added a new part to Telemann's original from the perspective of a jazz player and invited prominent traverso and saxophone players to collaborate. A brilliant musical fusion of old and new is born! 

Marian Friedl about his new version:
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 vein 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 I used my line to force the performer into a different concept of phrases, dynamics, time, I worked with shifting the harmony and metro-rhythmic line.

Interprets:
Marta Kratochvílová is a sought-after player of historical flutes. After graduating from the Conservatory in Pardubice and JAMU in Brno, she studied in France at the Conservatoire National de Région de Strasbourg, where she specialized in modern and historical transverse flutes. In France she worked intensively as a player of baroque and renaissance flute until 2010. She currently lives in the Czech Republic and performs and teach throughout Europe.


Marian Friedl is a musician, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue, member of several musical projects of different focus, in which he sings, plays double bass, folk flutes, bagpipes, clarinet, small dulcimer and other instruments. He performs on more than three dozen CDs as a music author, arranger or accompanying player, and performs concerts all over Europe. He lives in the Czech Republic, where he works as a teacher, music producer and popularizer of crossover projects.

Štěpán Flagar 
Der tschechische Saxofonist Stepan Flagar lebt seit 2014 in Österreich, wo er 2019 seinen Bachelor und 2024 seinen Master and der Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität abschloss. In seiner bisherigen Karriere wirkte er in verschiedensten Ensembles unterschiedlicher Musikrichtungen mit. Regelmäßige Konzerte innerhalb und außerhalb Europas zählen ebenso zu seinen Referenzen wie zahlreiche Preise. Derzeit zählen zu seinen Hauptprojekten das Trio HAEZZ, die Band 'Purple is the Color' oder das Swing Quartett 'Hot Brew’. In März 2022 hat er sein 45 Minütiges Saxophone Concerto no.1 in Linz als Solist mit dem ABPU Symphonieorchester uraufgeführt. Mittlerweile lebt der vielbeschäftigte Saxophonist und Komponist in Wien und arbeitet mit zahlreichen Musiker*innen und Ensembes zusammen.