Johan Helmich Roman
Johan Helmich Roman's chamber music sits at the heart of Swedish Baroque: flute and violin sonatas of clear line and Handelian poise, written for court and for Stockholm's first public concerts.
His writing carries the imprint of the London scene he knew as a young man, where Handel's music left a lasting mark. Suites, sonatas and sacred pieces favour fluent continuo, unforced melody and short movements that sit easily on flute, violin and gamba. The Drottningholm Music gathers two dozen wedding pieces of courtly variety; the published flute sonatas and the Sonata in G minor keep that same practical elegance. On period instruments the chamber works sound clean and lightly scored, a Swedish voice within the wider European Baroque.
Compositions by Johan Helmich Roman appear on
Nordic Moods & Baroque Echoes
A collaboration between Duo Langborn/Wendel and The Marais Project, this album blends baroque repertoire, new compositions and arrangements, and folk music from Australia and Sweden.
Smörgåsbord
The Marais Project’s fifth disc gathers Swedish folk, Bellman songs, Roman and Marais chamber works, a jazz pavane and even ABBA, all heard for the first time in Australia on period instruments.