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Roman - Solo Cembalo volume 1

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Catalogue numberBIS-2095 SACD
Release date2014-11-10
Discs1
Orig. sample rate96000Hz
Total time71:44

“This is, quite simply, an astonishing CD that one must hear to believe.” Fanfare

Before coming to Sweden, the Italian-born harpsichordist Anna Paradiso knew little about Johan Helmich Roman, often called 'the father of Swedish music'. Here she soon realized that if Roman's music was Swedish, it was also Italian – and specifically Neapolitan, her own part of Italy: the restlessness of the harmonic idiom, the continuous shifts from one melodic gesture to another, the absence of long and balanced phrases, the theatrical character. Roman had spent five years in London as a young man before returning to Stockholm to take up his duties at the Royal Court. Fourteen years later, 1735-37, he was once more able to sample the newest trends in music in person, during a two-year sabbatical spent travelling across Europe, with Ischia, near Naples, as his goal. It would seem that many, or most, of the twelve keyboard sonatas were composed around this time or later. Why he wrote them is not known, however, nor what instrument they were intended for. In 1746, shortly after he had retired, Roman assembled the pieces, each consisting of between three and seven movements, in a single manuscript. They remained unpublished, however, and as Roman did not provide any titles to them, they have since been referred to both as ‘suites’ and ‘sonatas’. Whatever the label, this fascinating collection is a testimony of a period of great stylistic diversity and change, as observed by a composer who, although geographically relegated to the outskirts of Europe, remained wide-open to new developments. On this, the first of two discs, Anna Paradiso emphasizes this aspect of the composer, performing the first seven sonatas of the set on three different instruments – a French and an Italian harpsichord and a copy of a clavichord built in Sweden in 1742 – with well-judged ornamentations and use of rubato.
 
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  Composer: Roman, Johan Helmich
  Sonata I in E flat major, BeRI 225 07:30
01 Allegro 02:33 $ 0.61 USD
02 Adagio 00:29 $ 0.12 USD
03 Non tanto (lento) 00:33 $ 0.13 USD
04 Vivace 03:55 $ 0.94 USD
 
  Sonata II in D major, BeRI 226 11:37
05 [Allegro] 03:45 $ 0.90 USD
06 Lento non troppo 01:15 $ 0.30 USD
07 Allegro moderato 04:31 $ 1.08 USD
08 Non troppo allegro 01:16 $ 0.30 USD
09 Presto 00:50 $ 0.20 USD
 
  Sonata III in G major, BeRI 227 09:50
10 Largo 03:10 $ 0.76 USD
11 [Allegro moderato] 02:17 $ 0.55 USD
12 Allegretto 01:05 $ 0.26 USD
13 Allegro assai 01:25 $ 0.34 USD
14 Menuet 01:53 $ 0.45 USD
 
  Sonata IV in D major, BeRI 228 15:32
15 Lento 02:32 $ 0.61 USD
16 Carillon. Allegro 02:30 $ 0.60 USD
17 Non troppo adagio 02:10 $ 0.52 USD
18 [Allegro moderato] 03:37 $ 0.87 USD
19 Allegretto 01:07 $ 0.27 USD
20 Presto 01:16 $ 0.30 USD
21 Villanella 02:20 $ 0.56 USD
 
  Sonata V in G minor, BeRI 229 12:09
22 Con spirito 01:06 $ 0.26 USD
23 [Allegro moderato] 02:29 $ 0.60 USD
24 Lento 01:45 $ 0.42 USD
25 Vivace – Lento 04:03 $ 0.97 USD
26 Andante ad libitum 02:46 $ 0.66 USD
 
  Sonata VI in B flat major, BeRI 230 06:18
27 [Allegro] 03:11 $ 0.76 USD
28 Andante 01:46 $ 0.42 USD
29 Vivace 01:21 $ 0.32 USD
 
  Sonata VII in F major, BeRI 231 06:33
30 Moderato 03:12 $ 0.77 USD
31 Vivace 02:08 $ 0.51 USD
32 Allegro 01:13 $ 0.29 USD
 
  Album total 71:44
ComposerRoman, Johan Helmich
HarpsichordParadiso, Anna

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