D Scarlatti - Keyboard Sonatas
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95817
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 17th May 2019
Contents
Works
Keyboard Sonata in B minor, K87Keyboard Sonata in C major, K513
Keyboard Sonata in C minor, K58
Keyboard Sonata in D major, K281
Keyboard Sonata in D major, K415
Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K92
Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K294
Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K417
Keyboard Sonata in E minor, K263
Keyboard Sonata in F major, K82
Keyboard Sonata in F major, K276
Keyboard Sonata in F minor, K69
Keyboard Sonata in F minor, K183
Keyboard Sonata in G major, K283
Keyboard Sonata in G major, K284
Keyboard Sonata in G major, K328
Keyboard Sonata in G minor, K93
Organ Sonata in D major, K287
Organ Sonata in D major, K288
Artists
Nicola Reniero (organ)Works
Keyboard Sonata in B minor, K87Keyboard Sonata in C major, K513
Keyboard Sonata in C minor, K58
Keyboard Sonata in D major, K281
Keyboard Sonata in D major, K415
Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K92
Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K294
Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K417
Keyboard Sonata in E minor, K263
Keyboard Sonata in F major, K82
Keyboard Sonata in F major, K276
Keyboard Sonata in F minor, K69
Keyboard Sonata in F minor, K183
Keyboard Sonata in G major, K283
Keyboard Sonata in G major, K284
Keyboard Sonata in G major, K328
Keyboard Sonata in G minor, K93
Organ Sonata in D major, K287
Organ Sonata in D major, K288
Artists
Nicola Reniero (organ)About
In fact Scarlatti probably intended only three of his 555 surviving keyboard sonatas specifically for an organ. Yet even on the instruments of his own time, in churches and chapels across Europe and especially his native Italy and adopted home of Spain, the palette of colours offered by a well-appointed organ brings these vibrantly coloured works to life without any fear of them being obscured by clouds of bass pedal or resonance.
In the useful booklet note accompanying this new recording, the organist Nicola Reniero explains that his selection of 19 sonatas concentrates on particularly intricate or individual examples of polyphony and fugue where the organ’s diversity of register and colour may be thought to excel. He does so, however, without neglecting the principle that in Scarlatti’s music almost everything is vocal and theatrical: the introduction is like the curtain that rises; the themes are the characters, and the various sections of the piece are like scenes of a wordless drama.
Reniero has chosen to avoid the kind of echo effects which would be a conventional way to introduce contrast between phrases: ‘I have tried instead to emphasize the originality of the harmonies or the characters of famous themes.’ The album closes with the most spectacular of all Scarlatti’s fugues, K417 in D minor. It is a stunning piece not only on account of the frenzied finale and the unexpected change of scene that comes about halfway through the piece, but above all for the boundless energy that pervades it throughout.
For this new recording, Reniero plays the organ of the Duomo di Desenzano in the town of Garda, a two-manual instrument first reconstructed by the Serassi Brothers (1835-1837) and then restored and partially rebuilt by Marco Fratti in 2014. The booklet includes full organ specifications and photographs.
Organist Nicola Reniero is one of the foremost keyboard players of Italy. He is one of the founders of L’Arte dell’Arco, he played with Christopher Hogwood and Gustav Leonhardt, and he recorded for Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, CPO and Brilliant Classics.
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