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Sonatas by Scarlatti / Schmitt-Leonardy (CD, 2022)

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Product Identifiers

Record LabelPicl, Piano Classics

UPC5029365102506

eBay Product ID (ePID)27053899731

Product Key Features

Release Year2022

FormatCD

GenreClassical Artists

ArtistScarlatti / Schmitt-Leonardy

Release TitleSonatas

Dimensions

Item Height0.37 in

Item Weight0.21 lb

Item Length5.49 in

Item Width4.83 in

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Number of Discs1

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

Notes'An eagle whose wings are grown,' according to his father Alessandro, the young Scarlatti left his native Naples for Venice, 'escorted only by his own ability.' By his early 20s he had already held audiences in thrall with an ability at the harpsichord which was deemed almost supernatural. There is assuredly the most prodigal imagination at work, as well as an extraordinarily sophisticated keyboard technique, in the 555 surviving keyboard sonatas which fuse Italianate cantabile and counterpoint with vivid Hispanic imagery: folksong, castanets, military trumpets and strumming guitars. All these qualities can be enjoyed in Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy's selection of 17 sonatas. Several of them are taken from the collection of Kk1-30 (in the catalogue produced by Ralph Kirkpatrick) which comes down to us as the earliest source of the sonatas in print, published shortly before he moved to Lisbon, thence to Madrid and around the royal courts of Spain, in the service of the princess who would become the Queen of Spain. Her patronage afforded Scarlatti the time and resources to evolve a highly personal style, full of eccentricity and flights of fancy. Hardly less than Bach, these sonatas have become for many pianists a proving ground for their own technique and imagination, rewarding an improvisatory response to their flamboyant effects. However, Schmitt-Leonardy also features several of the composer's most poetic and reflective sonatas such as the 'Aria' Kk 29 and the melancholy soliloquy of Kk 208.