Domenico Scarlatti - Sonata in A major K268 (Christian Zacharias)

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Domenico Scarlatti (1685 - 1757):
SONATA IN A MAJOR (K268/L41)
Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. His music was influential in the development of the Classical style and he was one of the few Baroque composers to transition into the classical period. Like his renowned father Alessandro Scarlatti, he composed in a variety of musical forms, although today he is known mainly for his 555 keyboard sonatas.
Only a small fraction of Scarlatti's compositions were published during his lifetime; Scarlatti himself seems to have overseen the publication in 1738 of the most famous collection, his 30 Essercizi ("Exercises"). These were well received throughout Europe, and were championed by the foremost English writer on music of the eighteenth century, Charles Burney. Ralph Kirkpatrick numbered these sonatas K1 - K30.
The many sonatas that were unpublished during Scarlatti's lifetime have appeared in print irregularly in the two and a half centuries since. Scarlatti has attracted notable admirers, including Béla Bartók, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Pieter-Jan Belder, Johannes Brahms, Frédéric Chopin, Emil Gilels, Enrique Granados, Marc-André Hamelin, Vladimir Horowitz, Franz Liszt, Ivo Pogorelich, Scott Ross, Heinrich Schenker, András Schiff, and Dmitri Shostakovich.
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This sonata is a very evidence why Scarlatti stunned Chopin and Brahms. It is simply unsettling! Broken rhythms, sudden changes of mood, surprising modulations. Sometimes it looks hard to believe that sonatas like this one were written at the same time as Bach’s Partitas or Suites.

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Sonata in which major?

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Where does the pianist get that A octave in the bass at the beginning of the first repeat?!

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Christian Zacharias' CD of Scarlatti sonatas is a wonderful collection and I listen to it again and again, but in this mercurial drama I think Lucas Debargue beats him. His little upward flick of an arpeggio in bar 34 and subsequent repeats is a winner. Zacharias does it once, but not with such happy insouciance. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qoHFk6pjh5aVp5I