Domenico Scarlatti: 12 Sonatas for Guitar

Release Date: 28th Sep 2009
Catalogue No: 9125
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 51 minutes

Scarlatti, D: Keyboard Sonata K377 in B minor

Work length3:31

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Luigi Attademo (guitar)
Recorded: 8-10 March 1998
Recording Venue: Jambling Studio, Italy

Scarlatti, D: Keyboard Sonata K208 in A major

Work length5:22

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Luigi Attademo (guitar)
Recorded: 8-10 March 1998
Recording Venue: Jambling Studio, Italy

Scarlatti, D: Keyboard Sonata K209 in A major

Work length5:18

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Luigi Attademo (guitar)
Recorded: 8-10 March 1998
Recording Venue: Jambling Studio, Italy

Scarlatti, D: Keyboard Sonata K32 in D minor

Work length2:52

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Luigi Attademo (guitar)
Recorded: 8-10 March 1998
Recording Venue: Jambling Studio, Italy

Scarlatti, D: Keyboard Sonata K77 in D minor

Work length6:11

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Luigi Attademo (guitar)
Recorded: 8-10 March 1998
Recording Venue: Jambling Studio, Italy

I. Moderato e cantabile

Track length4:38

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II. Minuet

Track length1:33

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Scarlatti, D: Keyboard Sonata K34 in D minor

Work length3:22

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Luigi Attademo (guitar)
Recorded: 8-10 March 1998
Recording Venue: Jambling Studio, Italy

Scarlatti, D: Keyboard Sonata in E Minor, K.291 / L.61 / P.282 (arr. for guitar)

Work length5:04

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Luigi Attademo (guitar)
Recorded: 8-10 March 1998
Recording Venue: Jambling Studio, Italy

Scarlatti, D: Keyboard Sonata in E Minor, K.292 / L.24 / P.223 (arr. for guitar)

Work length2:39

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Luigi Attademo (guitar)
Recorded: 8-10 March 1998
Recording Venue: Jambling Studio, Italy

Scarlatti, D: Keyboard Sonata K87 in B minor

Work length3:37

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Luigi Attademo (guitar)
Recorded: 8-10 March 1998
Recording Venue: Jambling Studio, Italy

Scarlatti, D: Keyboard Sonata K481 in F minor

Work length4:23

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Luigi Attademo (guitar)
Recorded: 8-10 March 1998
Recording Venue: Jambling Studio, Italy

Scarlatti, D: Keyboard Sonata in G Minor, K.476 / L.340 / P.427 (arr. for guitar)

Work length3:46

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Luigi Attademo (guitar)
Recorded: 8-10 March 1998
Recording Venue: Jambling Studio, Italy

Scarlatti, D: Keyboard Sonata K213 in D minor

Work length5:30

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Luigi Attademo (guitar)
Recorded: 8-10 March 1998
Recording Venue: Jambling Studio, Italy

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Recording made in 1998.

Luigi Attademo is responsible for the premieres of rediscovered works for guitar by Tansman, Cyril Scott (Sonatina, Alesandria, 2001), Lennox Berkeley and Mompou.

The 600 or so sonatas for harpsichord by Domenico Scarlatti contain some of the most remarkable music for keyboard from the Barock era. The influence of these works can be detected in the sonatas of Haydn, Clementi, and Beethoven. The fact that these composers, who developed the piano sonata form to new levels virtuosity, and at a time when the piano was a ‘new’ instrument, developing constantly, were influenced by his examples, has lead to many performers re-appraising Scarlatti’s sonatas. How would they sound on other instruments?

The modern concert grand is, today, no stranger to Scarlatti’s sonatas, but the guitar? The great Andres Segovia was one of the first to recognise that many of these sonatas would work for the guitar. His idea was not to imitate the harpsichord (‘a guitar with a cold’ as he famously said, much to the annoyance of the great harpsichordist Wanda Landowska), but to bring out hitherto unexplored textures and colours contained in the music that only the guitar could realise. There wasn’t much in the way of period interpretation or slavish imitation of keyboard practice in Segovia’s approach. It was a marvellously ‘gut feel’ instinctive interpretation that divided opinion. In 1994 Claudio Giuliani attempted (successfully) to navigate a path for guitarists through the purists and Segovia’s opposing positions and published a collection of Scarlatti’s sonatas that lie within the compass of the guitar. On this CD Attademo skilfully demonstrates that the two schools of thought can be brought together – Scarlatti’s genius as keyboard virtuoso, and the genius and instinctiveness of Segovia.

Domenico Scarlatti: 12 Sonatas for Guitar

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