Paradies - Complete Harpsichord Sonatas
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95867
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 4th December 2020
Contents
Artists
Alessandro Simonetto (harpsichord)About
Published in London in 1754, the sonatas quickly won admirers among professional and amateur musicians alike. In December 1774 Leopold Mozart, on one of his concert tours with Wolfgang, wrote home to Salzburg that ‘Nannerl should practice the clavier most diligently, especially the sonatas of Paradisi and Bach.’ Without rivalling the grandeur or the unpredictable invention of comparable works by the likes of CPE Bach, the sonatas nonetheless possess features that distinguish them from most of their contemporaries.
All 12 are cast in two movements, with both slow and quick finales: more similar in this regard to the earlier Scarlattian genre than the Classical norm of a three- or four-movement sonata. Yet Paradies writes with an attractive mixture of Baroque and Classical styles, a rich and expressive harmonic vocabulary, and an original grasp of form, especially in the first movements. The brilliant, Scarlattian figuration, textures, rhythmic vitality, and the lack of technical difficulty in relation to late Baroque contrapuntal music are probably key to the Toccata’s enduring popularity, but these qualities can also be found throughout the collection.
In his albums for Brilliant Classics, Alessandro Simonetto has made a speciality of under-recorded harpsichord music from this artistically mercurial late-Baroque era. His set of the nine suites by Pieter Bustijn (94187) was recommended by MusicWeb as a ‘Bargain of the Month’: ‘a disc that no lover of Baroque or harpsichord music in general should be without: nearly eighty minutes of enormously appealing, high-octane invention superbly rendered by Alessandro Simonetto.’ His set of the 12 Suites by Johann Mattheson (95588) also won three stars in the French magazine Diapason.
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