Ten Scarlatti Sonatas: Piano: Instrumental Album

Easier Piano Pieces 60-Domenico Scarlatti is best known for his vast output of 555 harpsichord sonatas many of which have been edited and published by the Associated Board. The nine sonatas in this collection for have been carefully edited by Howard Ferguson and published as part of the Easier Piano Pieces series and these have been edited for performance on the piano and include dynamics and marks of articulation.

Piano Sonata in d minor K.9 L.413-?Bach?s Preludes are on holiday at the Mediterranean? the wonderful alliance of polyphonic fluency and musical delight in Domenico Scarlatti?s piano sonatas could be described thus. Originally composed for harpsichord thesepieces exhaust the technical and tonal possibilities of keyboard instruments in such a refined manner that pianists have never been able to resist playing them on modern pianos whether grand or upright. We have chosen one of themost popular sonatas with a moderate level of difficulty (level 4/5) from our extensive three-volume Urtext edition (HN 395 451 476). This single edition is an asset for teaching and provide an ideal introduction to Scarlatti?sfascinating musical language.

Selected Piano Sonatas Volume IV-Eagerly awaited by countless pianists: a fourth Urtext volume with a selection of pieces from Domenico Scarlatti?s vast sonata output. Whereas in the three collections HN 395 451 and 476 there is about an equal numberof often played and rarely played pieces that were sure to reward the inquisitive Volume IV is a compilation of ?the best of Scarlatti?. In spite of the legendary fair copies from Venice and Parma that constitute thesources the Scarlatti transmission remains complicated and rich in variants a circumstance that we account for with a footnote apparatus. Even in these often played sonatas there are many surprising discoveries to be made.Domenico Scarlatti's Selected Piano Sonatas Volume IV is a treasure chest of Baroque Keyboard gems!

Maurice Hinson the editor of this book has selected his most favourite of Scarlatti's sonata's for this collection; these works were compiled over a period of thirty years of teaching performing and listening to these great pieces and are suited to the intermediate to moderately advanced pianist. These particular sonatas lend themselves especially well to performance on the modern piano.

This book comprises fifteen Sonatas For Harpsichord composed by Domenico Scarlatti and thoroughly revised by Christopher Kite.

Consid?r? aujourd?hui comme l?un des grands compositeurs de clavier de l?histoire de la musique Domenico Scarlatti est ?galement le tout premier virtuose du clavier. Comme les deux volumes pr?c?dents d??uvres choisies de Scarlatti (HN 395 451) cette s?lection contient 24 sonates issues de diff?rentes p?riodes cr?atrices de son ?uvre et offre ainsi une vision globale des multiples facettes du talent de ce compositeur italien qui travaillait ? la cour d?Espagne. Gr?ce ? ses th?mes caract?ristiques ? des m?lodies naturellement chantantes et ? des motifs dansants Scarlatti parvient ? d?passer toute forme de lourdeur baroque. Dans ces sonates en un seul mouvement latechnique de jeu devient un ?l?ment formel structurant. Pour la premi?re fois dans l?histoire du r?pertoire pour clavier l?interpr?te doit y ma?triser de grands sauts et des croisements de mains. La pr?face du grand pianiste Bengt Johnsson revient sur le parcours de Scarlatti et sur les diff?rentes sources sur lesquelles se fonde notre ?dition. Quelques sonates paraissent ici pour la premi?re fois en version imprim?e. Petit cadeau suppl?mentaire une pr?face originale parue initialement dans une ?dition de 1738 en pr?ambule ? 30 sonates pour clavier de Scarlatti est reproduite ici et fournit de nombreuses informations utiles ? la compr?hension de la musique pour clavier de ce compositeur.

Domenico Scarlatti was the most gifted son of Alessandro Scarlatti the great master of Neopolitan opera and of the Italian solo cantata.

Padre Antonio Soler (1729-1783) was an Catalan polymath and composer who composed over 100 Keyboard Sonatas. Debate rages as to whether he studied under Scarlatti but he was definitely influenced by the latter’s music and contributed much to the development of European Organ Piano and Harpsichord music. Sonata por la Princesa de Asturias was one of his many works that had been lost but was found in a private collection and published in 1979 by the Spanish pianist and musicologist Antonio Baciero.