Highlights from the Complete Sonatas
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DOMENICO SCARLATTI
Highlights from the Complete Sonatas
Richard Lester (harpsichord & piano)
[ Nimbus / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 28 May 2008
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The increasing popularity of Scarlatti's music is due to a number of factors, but largely to his uncanny knack of immediately grabbing the listener's attention with innovative ideas, captured within the short framework of a 'simple' binary form sonata. Selecting a series of sonatas that would form a 'favourites' CD really was the most extraordinarily difficult task as there are very few in the five hundred and sixty or so opus that don't actually live up to expectations; there is always something novel that has an instant appeal. It's rather like reading a good book that once begun, is difficult to leave. Just when I had whittled my selection of sonatas down to a mere three hundred, another becomes a strong contender that you simply cannot omit; you can see what I mean
Tracks:
Disc One
1 K24 A major 4.59
2 K141 D minor 4.15
3 K124 G major 4.36
4 K27 B minor 2.19
5 K511 D major 1.29
6 K513 D minor 3.49
7 K515 C major 3.31
8 K516 D minor 3.18
9 K517 D minor 3.17
10 K523 G major 2.31
11 K380 E major 3.20
12 K87 B minor 3.23
13 K125 G major 2.35
14 K432 G major 2.38
15 K429 A major * 3.32
16 K430 D major * 2.57
17 K441 B-flat major 1.59
18 K447 F-sharp minor 1.30
19 K314 G major 3.27
20 K370 E-flat major 2.16
21 K122 D major 2.51
22 K123 G major 3.25
23 K126 C minor 3.43
24 K134 E major 2.54
25 K251 C major 1.54
26 K137 D major 3.25
Disc Two
1 K455 G major 1.56
2 K460 C major 3.16
3 K461 C major 4.12
4 K145 D major 4.35
5 K146 G major 2.40
6 K147 D major 3.56
7 K56 C minor 2.08
8 K9 D minor 1.56
9 K33 D major 1.59
10 K202 B-flat major 6.03
11 K434 D minor * 3.21
12 K260 G major 7.37
13 K206 E major 5.31
14 K415 D major * 3.18
15 K205 F major 4.31
16 K333 D major 2.43
17 K239 F minor 3.54
18 K520 G major 4.30
19 K490 D major 2.43
20 K491 D major 2.46
21 K492 D major 2.20
22 K57 B-flat major 3.20
* played on the fortepiano
