Composer: Domenico Scarlatti
Performer: Pascal Pascaleff
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8574146
Release: 2020
Size: 1.19 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Keyboard Sonata in F Major, Kk. 167
02. Keyboard Sonata K206 in E major
03. Keyboard Sonata in C Major, Kk. 243
04. Keyboard Sonata in E-Flat Major, Kk. 307
05. Keyboard Sonata in F Major, Kk. 350
06. Keyboard Sonata in E-Flat Major, Kk. 371
07. Keyboard Sonata in B Minor, Kk. 409
08. Keyboard Sonata in F Major, Kk. 437
09. Keyboard Sonata in A Minor, Kk. 451
10. Keyboard Sonata in D Major, Kk. 480
11. Keyboard Sonata in C Major, Kk. 501
12. Keyboard Sonata in G Major, Kk. 538
13. Keyboard Sonata in G Major, Kk. 153
14. Keyboard Sonata in A Major, Kk. 221
15. Keyboard Sonata in E-Flat Major, Kk. 252
16. Keyboard Sonata in D Major, Kk. 281
17. Keyboard Sonata in F Major, Kk. 297
18. Keyboard Sonata in A Major, Kk. 343
This album belongs to a series of six albums in Naxos’s new joint initiative with the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, presenting debut albums for outstanding students. Born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Pascaleff was the inaugural Denis Matthews Scholar between 2016 and 2018 at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, where he studied with Anthony Hewitt and Pascal Nemirovski. Scarlatti’s single-movement sonatas or exercises are his greatest musical legacy. Largely designed for the Infanta, who became Queen of Spain in 1746, the music exists in a number of 18th-century manuscripts, some possibly bequeathed to the great Italian castrato Farinelli. Each of the sonatas in this volume exemplifies the limitless variety of Scarlatti’s imagination, from ‘crush’ notes and surprising pauses, through virtuosic moto perpetuos, bell evocations and busy counterpoint, to delicately restrained phrases and delightful syncopation.