Composer: Pietro Domenico Paradies
Performer: Anna Paradiso
Audio CD
Number of Discs: 1
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: BIS
Size: 1.76 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Pietro Domenico Paradies (1707 – 1791)
Keyboard Sonata No. 10 in D Major
01. I. Vivace
02. II. Presto
Keyboard Sonata No. 1 in G Major
03. I. Allegro
04. II. Vivace
Keyboard Sonata No. 4 in C Minor
05. I. Andante
06. II. Minuetto
Keyboard Sonata No. 5 in F Major
07. I. Presto
08. II. Giga
Keyboard Sonata No. 6 in A Major
09. I. Vivace
10. II. Allegro
Keyboard Sonata No. 3 in E Major
11. I. Presto
12. II. Aria
Keyboard Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Major
13. I. Andante
14. II. Giga
Keyboard Sonata No. 7 in B-Flat Major
15. I. Allegro
16. II. Presto
Keyboard Sonata No. 8 in E Minor:
17. I. Allegro
18. II. Presto
Keyboard Sonata No. 8 in A Minor:
19. I. Allegro
20. II. Andante
As Anna Paradiso writes in her liner notes to this disc the history of music is full of fine composers who, for one reason or another, have been largely forgotten. In the case of Pietro Domenico Paradisi, it is only thanks to his Sonate di gravicembalo that he has escaped complete obscurity. Even his name is less than certain is it Paradies or Paradisi? We know that he sometimes added the epithet Napolitano to his signature, and its presumed that he was born in or around Naples c. 1706. He may have studied with Nicola Porpora, but otherwise little is known about him before his arrival in England in 1746. There he composed an opera, but was primarily recognized as a harpsichord teacher and performer. The collection of twelve sonatas was first published in London in 1754, and ten of them have been selected for this amply filled disc (almost 88 minutes of music!). The sonatas appeared at a time when the clavichord remained in use, the harpsichord enjoyed its glory days and the fortepiano was beginning to come into its own. Anna Paradiso has therefore chosen to play on all three instruments with the clavichord and the fortepiano being historic examples from 1792 and 1802 respectively. Highly acclaimed for her recordings of solo works and chamber music by the Swedish composer Johan Helmich Roman, Anna Paradiso now lets us enjoy the playfulness and expressivity of Paradisis approach to keyboard playing.