Scarlatti - Complete Sonatas vol.4 | Nimbus NI1728

Scarlatti - Complete Sonatas vol.4

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Label: Nimbus

Cat No: NI1728

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 6

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 1st March 2007

Contents

Artists

Richard Lester (harpsichord/fortepiano)

Works

Scarlatti, Domenico

Keyboard Sonatas K388-483

Artists

Richard Lester (harpsichord/fortepiano)

About

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.

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