Scarlatti -  Complete Sonatas vol.5 | Nimbus NI1729

Scarlatti - Complete Sonatas vol.5

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Label: Nimbus

Cat No: NI1729

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 5

Genre: Instrumental

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Volume Five of the Complete Sonatas

The complete Keyboard sonatas with appendices and recent discoveries, plus six Continuo sonatas and will be issued on 38 CDs in 7 volumes. The last volume will be issued in July 2007 to coincide with the 250th anniversary of Scarlatti’s death.

Domenico Scarlatti was born in Naples on October 26th 1685, the same year as Bach and Handel. It was not until around 1720 however, that his compositional skills developed fully following an appointment in Portugal as chapel music master to King João V, - and harpsichord teacher to his younger brother Don Antonio - and his nine-year-old daughter, Princess Maria Barbara. Following her marriage in 1729 to Fernando, Felipe V’s son (heir to the Spanish throne) Domenico was to remain as her music master for the rest of his life.

Between 1752 and 1757, thirteen volumes containing thirty sonatas in each were copied out for the Queen.To this series of volumes, two others were added numbered XIV and XV and dated 1742 and 1749. These fifteen volumes were bound in red morocco and engraved in gold on the front. The Queen bequeathed these to Farinelli, the famous castrato singer who carried much favour at the Spanish court. Some years after his death in 1782, they were housed in the Biblioteca Marciana, in Venice. They are now referred to as the ‘Venice’ manuscripts and constitute the principal source for these recordings.

DISC 1
VENICE XII (1757)
K484 - K498
Total playing time 70.25

DISC 2
VENICE XII (1757)
K499 - K513
Total playing time 61.45

DISC 3
VENICE XIII (1757)
K514 - K529
Total playing time 64.28

DISC 4
VENICE XIII (1757)
K530 - K543
Total playing time 62.04

DISC 5
THE CONTINUO SONATAS
K78, 81 88-91
Total playing time 46.34

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