Domenico Scarlatti - Sonata in D major K119 (Irena Koblar)

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Domenico Scarlatti (1685 - 1757):
SONATA IN D MAJOR (K119/L415)
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The many sonatas that were unpublished during Scarlatti's lifetime have appeared in print irregularly in the two and a half centuries since.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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0:20 is a surprisingly catchy theme

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Atomic Scarlatti!!

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Resembles its mate K 141, in D minor: strong bass chords emulating guitars; repeated notes changing fingers; cross-hand passages and a strong Spanish flavor.

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One can speculate this sonata was written in Scarlatti’s early times in Spain, when the Spanish court was established in Seville. Strong flamenco flavor.

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He is very ahead of his time nevertheless

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It's worth viewing this performance both with Stigekalder's beautifully prepared score where where can marvel at the smashing 11-note clusters in the second half, and with the live video of the same performance here -- kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZrIk42Cm9t8nqM -- where we can watch Irena Koblar going through the overwhelming experience of playing it. She manages to make it sound quite easy -- which it isn't -- and highly emotional -- which it certainly is. Her performance is the best I have heard of this very demanding sonata. This sonata forms a pair with K120, which is not really a coherent piece of music but an exercise in showing off technique, something that the crazily talented Scarlatti occasionally couldn't resist. But K119 stays within the bounds (if only just) of a real piece of music giving us the flavour of 18th century flamenco.