Domenico Scarlatti
Naples (Italy) 1685
Madrid 1757
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Domenico Scarlatti |
Naples (Italy) 1685 Madrid 1757 |
The Piano Sonatas These pieces are a part of a nearly-complete recording of the Scarlatti's Sonatas. I have recorded them with a Yamaha digital piano in the early 2003. "Nearly-complete", I said. The Sonatas in the Kirpatrick's catalogue are 556, but I have decided to ignore the works clearly conceived for the organ, or instrumental ensembles. Also I have left out some Sonatas included in the Kirpatrick's catalogue, but in my opinion erroneously attributed to Scarlatti. Therefore the remaining Sonatas are 538. I think that playing on the piano these works gives prominence to the enormous influence that the Scarlatti's Sonatas have exerted on several great composers of the following centuries. I refer for example to Haydn, Clementi, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Jánácek, but particularly to Johannes Brahms, who owned a copy of the whole Scarlatti's opus, and held it in great esteem, and to Olivier Messiaen. Thinking of Messiaen, who composed many pieces drawing his inspiration from the birds singing, I can't help noticing that some Scarlatti's Sonatas are like aviaries, and nevertheless the harpsichord, because of his lack of the dynamic variable, cannot bring out this aspect.
Sonatas K1 - K30 : "30 Essercizi per Gravicembalo"
All the tracks performed by Claudio Colombo, on Yamaha digital pianos. Free music scores of Domenico Scarlatti's works on imslp.org |
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