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Fantasticus stands for intense expression and an affinity with bold, extravagant music. Its core inspiration is drawn from the stylus fantasticus of the late 17th century. This was “a free and unrestrained method of composing” that lent itself to uncharted virtuosity in instrumental music. A unique inspiration and an ensemble ‘in thrilling harmony with itself’ is the secret of Fantasticus’ rare communicative power.
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From the florid excesses of Biber, through the unrestrained harmonic richness of Rameau and the ravishing melodic imagination of Pandolfi Mealli, to the vividness and passion of the forerunners of romanticism as depicted by the generation after Bach, Fantasticus makes no compromises with regard to authentic performance, fearlessly trespassing on the borders of correctness.
Das ist aus den von Dir genannten Gründen wirklich sehr schade. In dem Beiheft zu der Aufnahme des Ensembles Bound To Nothing lässt sich ein Bild finden, wonach Guillermo Brachetta einen Cembalonachbau von Titus Craijnen, Bussum bespielt. Bereits für seine Solo-Einspielung Ciaconna hat Brachetta Nachbauten von Titus Craijnen nach G.B. Giusti (1681)* und H. Ruckers (1624)**, erw. 1680, verwendet. Vermutlich wird er auch im Ensemble diese Instrumente bespielen.es gibt keine detaillierten Angaben zu den benutzten Instrumenten
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In 1650 an answer to this dilemma was provided by the Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher (1601-1680). In his Musurgia universale he formulated the notion of the stylus fantasticus (also known as stylus phantasticus): ‘The fantastic style is suitable for instruments. It is the most free and unrestrained method of composing; it is bound to nothing, neither to words nor to a melodic subject; it was instituted to display genius and to teach the hidden design of harmony...’ Kircher conceived the stylus fantasticus as primarily contrapuntal, but using freely invented themes rather than the cantus firmus (pre-existing melodies) often used in vocal counterpoint.
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By the eighteenth century, concepts of the stylus fantasticus had broadened. Writing in 1739, the Hamburg theorist Johann Mattheson (1681-1764) defined it as an improvised or improvisatory style: ‘a singing
or playing that comes of free genius or, as is said, ex tempore. [...]
This style is the most free and unrestrained manner of composing, singing and playing that one can imagine, for one hits first upon this idea and then upon that one, since one is bound neither to words nor to melody, only to harmony, so that the singer or player can display his skill.’
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