Preserved in the 1752 first Venice volume of Scarlatti’s keyboard sonatas, this work likely predated that manuscript source by a year or two. That makes this C major effort a late work, despite the fact that almost 400 more keyboard sonatas would flow from Scarlatti’s pen before his death in
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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Scarlatti Sonata Guitar Transcriptions (K1)
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Scarlatti, Sonate K.141
Scarlatti, Sonate K.141 by Martha Argerich. This D minor effort is one of Scarlatti’s finest Sonatas and also one of his most unusual: it is really a toccata whose focus on repeated notes is said to be an attempt to imitate the sonorities of a mandolin. In addition, it makes considerable demands on the […]
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This D minor effort is one of Scarlatti’s finest Sonatas and also one of his most unusual: it is really a toccata whose focus on repeated notes is said to be an attempt to imitate the sonorities of a mandolin. In addition, it makes considerable demands on the soloist with hand-crossings and other keyboard acrobatics […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Music Interlude – D.Scarlatti, Cat’s Fugue.
The nickname, which was never used by the composer himself but was introduced only early in the 19th century, originates from a story about how Scarlatti came up with the strikingly unusual motif on which the fugue is built. Legend has it that Scarlatti had a pet cat called
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