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...The music mixes Handel’s own with that of contemporaries, such as Telemann and Scarlatti....
...His 2019 solo La Consagraciòn de la Primavera uses the dazzling two-piano reduction of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring score supplemented by a Scarlatti sonata (K87), Frederic Rzewski’s 1980 piano duo Winnsboro...
...The sweep of composers that Chick Corea shapes anew on this life-affirming solo piano set range from Scarlatti to Stevie Wonder, from Scriabin to a triptych of pieces by Thelonious Monk....
...The face is unexpectedly chubby, but as he gets stuck into his Scarlatti sonatas it becomes easy to recognise the young virtuoso-in-the-making....
...The obvious composers are here — Handel, Scarlatti, Cavalli — but not the usual arias, and they are interspersed with some rarities. The last two are welcome finds....
...Jacobs tinkers, and thank God he does, fleshing out instrumentation, adding flourishes and colours, breathing life into the clay of Scarlatti’s score....
...The playlist is eclectic — Bach, Scarlatti, Ligeti, Glass — and for the final duet from Angelin Preljocaj’s Le Parc (Mozart) Levingston is joined by the cello and three violins of the Halcyon Quartet....
...The Scarlatti piece was preceded by a solo extemporisation that bordered on free jazz — it was an imaginary conversation with Scarlatti — and followed by a mind-blowing reworking of “You and the Night and...
...There are already over 30 operas based on Hamlet, from Scarlatti to the French romantic Ambroise Thomas....
...Scarlatti, Beethoven, et al On My New Piano Daniel Barenboim (DG) Is it obvious that this piano is unique? Unmistakably, yes....
...After prolonged applause, he returned for two more Scarlatti sonatas, proffering by turn exquisite dolour and a thrilling, manic violence. wigmore-hall.org.uk...
...Lucas Debargue Scarlatti, Chopin, Liszt, Ravel (Sony Classical) It can pay not to win a piano competition....
...In the 1720s, Domenico Scarlatti was court musician to the Portuguese Princess Maria Barbara, who was to marry the Spanish Prince Ferdinand of Asturias and — sublime luggage — take her harpsichordist with...
...Scarlatti Sonatas Angela Hewitt (Hyperion) Swap the harpsichord for the piano and the fingers really have to move....
...We ended with Scarlatti and here too Esfahani offered something new, unveiling a couple of recently discovered sonatas....
...His 40 years of experience as a harpsichordist (not to mention conductor) is reflected in a wide range of music that leads from the Italy of Scarlatti and Frescobaldi to the England of Byrd and Tallis....
...Technique became more of a worry in the trio of sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, who wrote more than 550 such pieces for one of the most prodigiously musically gifted monarchs in history: Maria Barbara, Queen...
...Kurt-Heinz Stolze’s arrangement of Scarlatti has cinematic sweep and energy and was brightly delivered by the Royal Ballet Sinfonia under Stuttgart’s Wolfgang Heinz....
...Robbins and Ratmansky share a love of folk steps to convey individuality and warmth, and the gentle intimacy of Seven Sonatas, set to Scarlatti, is reminiscent of Robbins’s Chopin classics....
...Bach, Handel, Scarlatti Gamba sonatas Steven Isserlis (Hyperion) Despite the title please note that Steven Isserlis plays these sonatas on a cello, not a viola da gamba....
...In the homes of Roman high society, he thrilled luminaries such as Corelli and Scarlatti with his supremely vital music....
...The performances of Baroque works by Scarlatti, CPE Bach and JS Bach (the Keyboard Concerto in D Minor, BWV 1052) focus not on powdered-wig gentility, but virtuoso playing, both from Esfahani and Concerto...
...All three are worth hearing and Domenico Scarlatti’s “Stabat Mater” makes a highly enjoyable Baroque companion for them....
...Very little survives from before 1800 – not a single note by baroque composers such as Monteverdi, Lully or Alessandro Scarlatti....
...Normally in your first year you have to play a Scarlatti sonata, a late Beethoven sonata and so on, but I couldn’t do that so I devised my own programme....
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