Sonatas for Harpsichord

; music that is characterised by its imagination, wit and sparkling technique.

During his lifetime he attained European fame and his works received enthusiastic endorsement from some of the most eminent musicians of the day, including Telemann, Mattheson, Bononcini and Sarro.

Roberto Loreggian has received many prizes and honours in various competitions in Europe, as well as the prestigious Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik for his work on the manuscripts of Giovanni Battista Ferrini.

Marcello became known as the foremost Venetian composer of music for keyboard of his generation. It is possible to hear the influence of the young Domenico Scarlatti's keyboard style in these harpsichord sonatas as well as pronounced French and galant tendencies.

There is no reliable and comprehensive study of Marcello and many details of his life and work remain shrouded in mystery. Trying to determine, therefore, the authenticity of the available sources for these harpsichord works proved problematic. It was concluded that the most authoritative consist primarily of five manuscripts (another probable two are lost, and the five surviving manuscripts are now in the libraries of as many European cities).

The manuscript adopted as the basis for this recording, apart from being accepted as coming from the location closest to the composer's centre of activity, namely Venice, is also the one which bears the closest resemblance to the model of a collection that might have been prepared for publication at the time Marcello is thought to have composed these works.