Release Date: 01 October 2003
Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 636943479322
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: SCARLATTI, D.
Description
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)Complete Sonatas Vol. 6Domenico Scarlatti was born in Naples in 1685, sixth of theten children of the composer Alessandro Scarlatti, Sicilian by birth andchiefly responsible for the early development of Neapolitan opera. TheScarlatti family had extensive involvement in music both in Rome and in Naples,where Alessandro Scarlatti became maestro di cappella to the Spanish viceroy in1684. Domenico Scarlatti started his public career in 1701 under his father'saegis as organist and composer in the vice-regal chapel. The following yearfather and son took leave of absence to explore the possibilities of employmentin Florence, and Alessandro was later to exercise paternal authority by sendinghis son to Venice, where he remained for some four years. In 1709 Domenicoentered the service of the exiled Queen of Poland, Maria Casimira, in Rome,there meeting and playing against Handel in a keyboard contest, in which thelatter was declared the better organist and Scarlatti the betterharpsichordist. It has been suggested that he spent a period from 1719 inPalermo, but his earlier connection with the Portuguese embassy in Rome led himbefore long to Lisbon, where he became music-master to the children of theroyal family. This employment took him in 1728 to Madrid, when his pupil the InfantaMaria Barbara married the heir to the Spanish throne. Scarlatti apparentlyremained there for the rest of his life, his most considerable achievement thecomposition of some hundreds of single-movement sonatas or exercises, designedlargely for the use of the Infanta, who became Queen of Spain in 1746.The keyboard sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti survive in partin a number of eighteenth century manuscripts, some clearly from the collectionof Queen Maria Barbara, possibly bequeathed to the great Italian castratoFarinelli, who was employed at the Spanish court, and now in Venice. Varioussets of sonatas were published during the composer's lifetime, including a setof thirty issued in Venice or, perhaps, in London in 1738, and 42 published inLondon by Thomas Roseingrave in 1739, including the thirty already availablefrom the earlier publication. In more recent times the sonatas were edited byAlessandro Longo, who provided the numerical listing under L, and in 1953 theAmerican harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick provided a new listing, distinguishedby the letter K. Stylistic grounds have suggested a further changed listing byGiorgio Pestelli, under the letter P. [1] The Sonata in E major, K.135/L.224/P.234, seemingly oneof a set of three, is found in the second of the fifteen manuscript volumes ofScarlatti sonatas in Parma, dated 1752. Marked Allegro, the sonata is a livelywork, with a characteristic opening figure, a descending arpeggio.[2] The Sonata in A major, K.429/L.132/P.132, is found inthe tenth of the fifteen Venice volumes, dated 1755. This is a gently liltingand lyrical sonata.[3] The Sonata in D major, K.478/L.12/P.503, is markedAndante e cantabile. It
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Yaqi Yang; Margarita Parsamyan; Robynne Redmon; Minghao Liu; Frank Ragsdale; Kim Josephson; Kevin S
Vilmos Csikos; Olivier Lechardeur; Manon Lamaison
Tomas Cotik; Martingale Ensemble; Ken Selden
