Scarlatti - Complete Sonatas vol.7: Appendices and Diversities | Nimbus NI1731

Scarlatti - Complete Sonatas vol.7: Appendices and Diversities

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Label: Nimbus

Cat No: NI1731

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 3

Genre: Instrumental

Contents

Artists

Richard Lester (harpsichord)

Works

Scarlatti, Domenico

Keyboard Sonata in A major, K39
Keyboard Sonata in A major, K452
Keyboard Sonata in A major, K453
Keyboard Sonata in A minor, K36
Keyboard Sonata in B flat major, K42
Keyboard Sonata in B flat major, K202
Keyboard Sonata in B flat major, K544
Keyboard Sonata in B flat major, K545
Keyboard Sonata in B flat major, K550
Keyboard Sonata in B flat major, K551
Keyboard Sonata in C major, K95
Keyboard Sonata in C major, K143
Keyboard Sonata in C major, K356
Keyboard Sonata in C major, K357
Keyboard Sonata in C major, K548
Keyboard Sonata in C major, K549
Keyboard Sonata in C minor, K37
Keyboard Sonata in C minor, K40
Keyboard Sonata in D major, K33
Keyboard Sonata in D major, K145
Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K32
Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K34
Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K41
Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K141
Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K552
Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K553
Keyboard Sonata in E minor, K147
Keyboard Sonata in E minor, K203
Keyboard Sonata in F major, K38
Keyboard Sonata in F major, K94 (Minuet)
Keyboard Sonata in F major, K205
Keyboard Sonata in F major, K554
Keyboard Sonata in F minor, K204a
Keyboard Sonata in F minor, K204b
Keyboard Sonata in F minor, K555
Keyboard Sonata in F sharp minor, K142
Keyboard Sonata in G major, K144
Keyboard Sonata in G major, K146
Keyboard Sonata in G major, K547
Keyboard Sonata in G minor, K31
Keyboard Sonata in G minor, K35
Keyboard Sonata in G minor, K97
Keyboard Sonata in G minor, K546

Artists

Richard Lester (harpsichord)

About

The complete Keyboard sonatas with appendices and recent discoveries, plus six Continuo sonatas has been issued on 38 CDs in 7 volumes. This is the final volume that has been issued 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.
 
This volume also contains an extended essay on the Sonatas by Richard Lester.
 
CD 1
Appendices & Diversities
23 Sonatas from existing and unpublished manuscripts
- Worgan Madrid
- Fitzwilliam Lisbon
- Boivin Barcelona
- Münster Valladolid
- Coimbra Montserrat
- Turin
 
Total playing time 77.50
 
CD 2
Appendices : 34 Sonatas
- Roseingrave K31 - K42
- Parma K202 - K205
 
Total playing time 73.14
 
CD 3
Appendices : 34 Sonatas
- Parma K356 - K357
- Münster K452 - K453
- Parma K544 - K555
 
Total playing time 71.39

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