Swedish baroque music - Suite by Johan Helmich Roman

[ozzy]

I want to post these pieces  because of mainly two reasons;
The first, as always, to hear you opinion about it. Uncensored critisism welcome....
The second, maybe even more important this time, is that I would like people all over the place to get a glimpse of the "father of Swedish music", Johan Helmich Roman (1694 - 1758). Wrote a lot of nice music of course, and among others 12 suites for the clavichord/harpsichord. Sadly enough, imo, it is very seldom played nowadays, even in Sweden (and of course more or less never ever outside our boarders). I myself have a vague but honest intention of doing a real studio recording some day of the twelve, but..We´ll see...

I post two of the suites here, nr 2 in D-major and nr 5 in g-minor. They both consist of typically short movements (1-3 minutes).
The recordings was made in a couple of hours in the concert hall of Royal college of Music in Stockholm, and recording engineer and helping me with the microphones was, as always, my good friend and colleague "hiroshi" (same as my Messiaen recordings, that is)

Nr 2 Dmajor, five movements.

(first four movements attached)

[ozzy]

(First attachment: Last movement of D major suite)


Suite nr 5, g minor, six movements

(three first movements attached)

[ozzy]

(three last movements of g minor suite. Movement 4 and 5 is played attaca, and there fore consists of the first attachment)


Enjoy, and feel free to comment any thoughts!

Best regards

ozzy

[asyncopated]

Your playing is sublime.  Beautiful.  These are definately going into my mp3 collection. 
If you do a proper recordering, please post and i'll go buy myself a copy.

[piano121]

Gorgeous. You play so well. the pieces are wonderfull... unbeliveable how such composer is so underrated. definetely you should make a CD out of it. your playing is fabulous.  Btw, the recording it self sounds fantastic.

[ozzy]

unbeliveable how such composer is so underrated.

Very much my opinion too!

[00range]

Ozzy, thanks for sharing such an obscure, and great, composer!