Roman,J. / Laurin,Dan / Paradiso Musicale - J.h. Roman: The 12 Flute Sonatas Nos. 6-12 - SUPER-AUDIO CD [Super Audio CD (SACD)]

Various Artists - Mechanical Opera / Various [COMPACT DISCS] date 08/17/1992

Incompleteness brings to mind usually bad connotations. A breach of finis coronat opus principle often causes lack of symmetry of work, interferes with the expectancy and logic of a design, and finally builds a sense of it's limitations. We can multiply examples of buildings that have never lived to see their final architectural shape, or the ones, which combine different styles compiled over the centuries; and that does not always produce indisputably successful result. Studying of biographies of prominent composers stirs speculations what else and how would Mozart, Pergolesi, Schubert write if the Great Director did not remove them from the stage of life so early? How would their style develop, what measures would they apply and how many works - probably remarkable ones - would have been created if they could reach their venerable years? The Incompleta album presents the works for a string quartet, which were, for some reason, never finished. Each of these works is completely different and reveals quite varied life situations of composers, different contexts and causes of the unfinished pieces.

In Stockholm during Johan HelmichRoman's lifetime, the recorder wasthe most common wind instrument,used throughout the social spectrum- including the Royal musicestablishment. The transverse flute, however, wasgenerally the preserve of the nobilityand bourgeoisie. That hasn't stopped the celebratedrecorder player Dan Laurin from takingup his countryman's sonatas on his owninstrument. With his fellow musicians in ParadisoMusicale, Laurin opts for a justifiablyItalianate slant - providing great varietyin realizations characterized by bold andstriking harmonization.