Paradiso Plays Paradisi Anna Paradiso

• Pietro Domenico Paradies (1707 - 1791): Keyboard Sonata No. 10 in D Major:
• 1 Keyboard Sonata No. 10 in D Major: I. Vivace 04:51
• 2 Keyboard Sonata No. 10 in D Major: II. Presto 01:23
• Keyboard Sonata No. 1 in G Major:
• 3 Keyboard Sonata No. 1 in G Major: I. Allegro 03:43
• 4 Keyboard Sonata No. 1 in G Major: II. Vivace 02:15
• Keyboard Sonata No. 4 in C Minor:
• 5 Keyboard Sonata No. 4 in C Minor: I. Andante 09:22
• 6 Keyboard Sonata No. 4 in C Minor: II. Minuetto 01:34
• Keyboard Sonata No. 5 in F Major:
• 7 Keyboard Sonata No. 5 in F Major: I. Presto 06:27
• 8 Keyboard Sonata No. 5 in F Major: II. Giga 01:47
• Keyboard Sonata No. 6 in A Major:
• 9 Keyboard Sonata No. 6 in A Major: I. Vivace 06:06
• 10 Keyboard Sonata No. 6 in A Major: II. Allegro 01:55
• Keyboard Sonata No. 3 in E Major: I. Presto
• 11 Keyboard Sonata No. 3 in E Major: I. Presto 03:21
• 12 Keyboard Sonata No. 3 in E Major: II. Aria 04:56
• Keyboard Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Major: I. Andante
• 13 Keyboard Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Major: I. Andante 08:16
• 14 Keyboard Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Major: II. Giga 02:31
• Keyboard Sonata No. 7 in B-Flat Major: I. Allegro
• 15 Keyboard Sonata No. 7 in B-Flat Major: I. Allegro 08:26
• 16 Keyboard Sonata No. 7 in B-Flat Major: II. Presto 01:37
• Keyboard Sonata No. 8 in E Minor: I. Allegro
• 17 Keyboard Sonata No. 8 in E Minor: I. Allegro 06:26
• 18 Keyboard Sonata No. 8 in E Minor: II. Presto 01:29
• Keyboard Sonata No. 9 in A Minor: I. Allegro
• 19 Keyboard Sonata No. 9 in A Minor: I. Allegro 05:06
• 20 Keyboard Sonata No. 9 in A Minor: II. Andante 04:16
• Total Runtime 01:25:47

Info for Paradiso Plays Paradisi

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.

Anna Paradiso, harpsichord

Anna Paradiso
Born in Bari, Italy, Anna Paradiso moved to Sweden in 2006 and is today one of the most prominent harpsichord players in her adoptive country, with concerts as soloist and continuo player at home, as well as in the rest of Europe, the USA, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Lebanon. Her previous ten recordings for BIS have received enthusiastic reviews. They include solo music by J. H. Roman, J. S. Bach and the contemporary composer Vito Palumbo, as well as baroque and modern chamber music with recorder player Dan Laurin and various ensembles. She studied harpsichord with Gordon Murray, Christophe Rousset, Enrico Baiano and Mayumi Kamata. Parallel to her solo diplomas in piano and in harpsichord, she has had an academic career as Doctor of Philosophy in classical philology. Since 2009 she has dedicated herself completely to music. In recent years she has particularly distinguished herself in rediscovering unknown Swedish music from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through her study of original sources on original fingerings and on performance of thorough-bass, she has developed a personal style praised by the critics. In 2019, the Swedish Royal Academy of Music awarded her the prestigious Bernadotte Scholarship for a project on Neapolitan baroque music.

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