Johan Helmich Roman: The 12 Keyboard Sonatas (Sonatas 8-12)

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Splendid and imaginative performances — MusicWeb International, 11th November 2016

Release Date: 31st Dec 2015
Catalogue No: BIS2135
Label: BIS
Length: 75 minutes

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Roman: Keyboard Sonata No. 8 in A Major, BeRI 232

Work length14:26

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Anna Paradiso

I. Commodo

Track length6:55

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II. Lento

Track length4:01

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III. Vivace

Track length3:09

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IV. Scozzese. Vivace

Track length0:21

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Roman: Keyboard Sonata No. 9 in D Minor, BeRI 233

Work length7:36

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Anna Paradiso

I. —

Track length2:04

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II. Adagio

Track length1:06

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III. —

Track length2:13

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IV. Lento

Track length2:13

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Roman: Keyboard Sonata No. 10 in B Minor, BeRI 234

Work length10:18

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Anna Paradiso

I. Adagio

Track length2:46

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II. Come alla breve

Track length2:40

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III. —

Track length0:31

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IV. —

Track length2:10

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V. Tempo di menuetto

Track length2:11

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Roman: Keyboard Sonata No. 11 in F Minor, BeRI 235

Work length9:45

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Anna Paradiso

I. —

Track length1:29

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II. —

Track length3:11

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III. Lento poco

Track length1:51

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IV. —

Track length3:14

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Roman: Keyboard Sonata No. 12 in E minor, BeRI 236

Work length7:36

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Anna Paradiso

I. Allegro

Track length3:06

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II. —

Track length0:58

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III. —

Track length3:32

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Roman: Keyboard Sonata in C Major, BeRI 215

Work length11:47

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Anna Paradiso

I. —

Track length3:33

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II. Larghetto

Track length2:29

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III. —

Track length5:45

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Agrell, Johan: Keyboard Sonata No. 2 in G Major

Work length14:09

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Anna Paradiso

I. Allegro assai

Track length3:20

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II. Andante

Track length4:13

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III. Presto

Track length1:42

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IV. Minuets I & II

Track length2:28

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V. Polonese

Track length2:26

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The music of Johan Helmich Roman, often called 'the father of Swedish music' owes as much to Italy – specifically Naples – as it does to Sweden: the restlessness of the harmonic idiom, the continuous melodic shifts and the theatrical character. Considering the distance between Stockholm and Naples, this might seem farfetched, but we know that Roman encountered a number of Italian musicians while studying in London 1716-1721, and when in the 1730s he was able take a two-year sabbatical from his post as Kapellmeister at the Royal Court, his goal was Ischia near Naples. Roman's collection of Twelve Keyboard Sonatas was preserved in a manuscript assembled around 1748, but had most likely been composed in the course of the two decades before that. (One movement in Sonata III is labelled 'a Napoli', placing it in the autumn of 1736.) Consisting of between three and seven movements, the pieces have been referred to both as ‘suites’ and ‘sonatas’. Whatever the label, the collection is a fascinating testimony of a period of great stylistic diversity and change. In these recordings, Anna Paradiso emphasizes this aspect, performing the sonatas on three different instruments – a French and an Italian harpsichord and a copy of a Swedish clavichord from 1742 – with well-judged ornamentations and use of rubato.

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