12 phantasias in baroque style written for alto recorder, high level of difficulty; 12 pantasie pour flûte à bec alto, écrites dans un style assez baroque, d'un nivaue technique élèvé; 12 fantasia per flauto dolce contralto scritte in uno stile barocco, livello di difficoltà piuttosto alto

Georg Philipp Telemann's 12 Fantasias for Solo Flute, TWV 40:2-13, published in Hamburg in 1732-33, are a standard in the flute repertoire. Complete with critical commentary, this new urtext edition closely follows the source and clearly shows problematic areas of the text and editorial decisions.

Telemann composed three dozen Fantasias, published in 1732. He deliberately set out to juxtapose the French and Italian styles. Marks of dynamics and of articulation have been added, and so have harmony notes of inner parts, which would have been improvised by the player in an 18th-century performance.

This exciting edition contains 100 early intermediate selections in their original form, spanning the Baroque period to present day. The repertoire, which includes several minuets, folk dances, character pieces and much more, has been carefully graded and selected for student appeal by editor Lynn Freeman Olson.