Fantasy as this week's topic can bring many interesting entries. For sure, it is a topic that opens many options for what to choose. Can be our fantasy, a song that talks about it...a fairy tale, a story around a fantastic experience, daydreams, hopes... imagination can work :) Can be a song with the same title, or a classical piece in form of a fantasia. I chose this last option for my participation.
Fantasia in classical music means freedom, the avoidance of an established structure. We can think that it is a fruit of the imagination of contemporary composers or from romanticism. However, fantasia as a form of a music piece has been widely used already in the Baroque era. Famous composers of that era like Bach, Handel or Telemann used fantasias as an improvisational form. Chromatic Fantasia composed by Bach is one of the most famous ones, I remember one of my friends played that one. It is composed in D minor, and what is curious is that Mozart also composed one Fantasia in D minor and I played that one.
I really don't know if that has any relation, why those two famous fantasias were written in that key, but here comes addition to that curiosity. The composition I play here, Fantasia composed by Georg Friedrich Handel is written, you guess in which key? Yes, again in D minor.
It is a moderate fast, toccata-like composition, that consists of two parts as the majority of the baroque suite movements. Both parts have to be repeated, so I will follow the guidance of those repetitions. Here it comes:
