Composer: Domenico Scarlatti
Performer: Artem Yasynskyy
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8573604
Release: 2018
Size: 988 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Keyboard Sonata in B-Flat Major, Kk. 503
02. Keyboard Sonata in G Minor, Kk. 315
03. Keyboard Sonata in G Major, Kk. 539
04. Keyboard Sonata in E Major, Kk. 530
05. Keyboard Sonata in C Major, Kk. 385
06. Keyboard Sonata in F Major, Kk. 379
07. Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, Kk. 396
08. Keyboard Sonata K513 in C major
09. Keyboard Sonata K319 in F sharp major
10. Keyboard Sonata in D Major, Kk. 358
11. Keyboard Sonata in E Major, Kk. 495
12. Keyboard Sonata in A Major, Kk. 301
13. Keyboard Sonata in D Major, Kk. 346
14. Keyboard Sonata K520 in G major
15. Keyboard Sonata in C Major, Kk. 460
16. Keyboard Sonata in G Major, Kk. 413
17. Keyboard Sonata in G Major, Kk. 431
18. Keyboard Sonata in D Major, Kk. 484
The illustrious Scarlatti family was famed throughout Europe for forging new musical developments. Alessandro was responsible for creating a new operatic school in Naples whilst his son Domenico devised a huge sequence of single-movement keyboard sonatas that have proved indispensable to pianists. Composed for the Spanish court, and specifically for his pupil, the Infanta Maria Barbara, the sonatas here derive from manuscripts preserved in Venice. Their virtuosity is matched by ceaseless invention in which Scarlatti sometimes evokes Iberian popular dances, all generously endowed with melodic interest and brilliance.