Domenico Scarlatti - Sonata in C major K513 "Pastorale" (Mary Vanhoozer-Rodriguez)

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Domenico Scarlatti (1685 - 1757):
SONATA IN C MAJOR (K513/S3)
Mary Vanhoozer-Rodriguez (2019) - Live recording
"Pastorale" refers to something of a pastoral nature in music, whether in form or in mood. A pastoral lifestyle is that of shepherds herding livestock around open areas of land according to seasons and the changing availability of water and pasture.
Common examples include the last movement of Corelli's Christmas Concerto, the third movement of Vivaldi's Spring concerto from The Four Seasons, the Pifa movement of Handel's Messiah, the first movements of Bach's Pastorale (BWV 590) for organ, and the Sinfonia that opens part II of his Christmas Oratorio as an introduction to the angelic announcement to the shepherds.
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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The many sonatas that were unpublished during Scarlatti's lifetime have appeared in print irregularly in the two and a half centuries since.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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[@RobertSweet-nw4tm]

Most beautifully played. This sonata not very well known

[@claudiotoffoli5355]

Little Christmas Pastorale, as Kirkpatrick called this sonata. Belonging to the final set of sonatas, one can figure out aging Scarlatti remembers his childhood in Naples, the peasants playing the zampogna, the rural environment. A real jewel.

[@RalphHancock]

I was in Rome in the 1970s, and at Christmas time peasants would come in from the countryside and play pastorales on the zampogna on the Spanish Steps -- for money of course, but charmingly recalling the shepherds at the birth of Christ. I imagine the same happened in other Italian cities,, but don't know whether the custom continues.

[@RalphHancock]

Here are some modern zampognari playing something very similar to the second tune in the sonata (which in the sonata begins at 1'32"). kzbin.info/www/bejne/lXrYZWNtibl1hNE It's no surprise that Scarlatti picked up a folk tune, or that the original should have changed a little over time, but it's interesting to see an actual example.

[@claudiotoffoli5355]

@@RalphHancock it’s awesome! One could say that’s the same tune, slightly changed - there’s a 300 year gap between K513 and now. Folk tunes seem not to be uncommon in Scarlatti’s sonatas (as we see lots of Spanish-sounding pieces - there’s even Portuguese echoes among them), and this very K513 is particularly striking as it is one of the last sonatas of a composer in his almost seventies and it shines as a testimony of his early memories.

[@MarkxUK1]

I love the variety of Scarlatti's writing. There are so many different moods and textures in this sonata.

[@LoveJoyPeace378]

Indeed!

[@LoveJoyPeace378]

He can be jolly, light-hearted, serious, profound, deep, and mysterious and, sometimes, downright playful!

[@gfweis]

I didn't know this one. Lovely, thanks.

[@uigliam]

The beginning is very reminiscent of an Adagio from Mozart's Piano Sonata, I don't remember which one....

[@cadenzalien4554]

Probably the theme of the 1st mvt of the 11th sonata?

[@uigliam]

@@cadenzalien4554 That's right 👍

[@musiclover148]

The one in A Major, K. 331, which starts with the theme and variations. Yes, this theme reminded me of that immediately!

[@jasperkicki7091]

That’s true, so maybe Mozart knew this sonata and it inspired him? 🤨

[@uigliam]

​​​@@jasperkicki7091We should know the time of composition of this Sonata of S. Whether he was in Italy or in Spain. And if Mozart had passed through the Spanish court, or had seen a copy of this music... Who knows.. !?

[@アンビリバボーナダル]

"牧歌風"？ぴったりですね。美しい！

[@stigekalder]

クリスマスに合っていますよね！

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