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Scarlatti - Complete Keyboard Sonatas Volume 15
Orion Weiss (piano)
Weiss, an American with sparkling touch and an endearing lyricism in slow movements, is new to Naxos's growing collection of all 550-plus sonatas. Desirable, though there are innumerable period...
Scarlatti - Complete Keyboard Sonatas Volume 15
Orion Weiss (piano)
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Weiss, an American with sparkling touch and an endearing lyricism in slow movements, is new to Naxos's growing collection of all 550-plus sonatas. Desirable, though there are innumerable period...
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Whilst Alessandro Scarlatti was largely responsible for the early development of Neapolitan opera, his son Domenico is most famous for his extensive series of keyboard sonatas, of which some 555 survive. His employment at the Spanish court in Madrid led to a series of works largely designed for the Infanta, Maria Barbara, later to become Queen. These sonatas are amongst the most significant of all 18th-century keyboard works.
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January 2015
Weiss, an American with sparkling touch and an endearing lyricism in slow movements, is new to Naxos's growing collection of all 550-plus sonatas. Desirable, though there are innumerable period instrument alternatives.
December 2014
[in K455 and K448] his clear fingerwork avoids the music's potential for registral entanglement. Similarly, the legato fluidity Weiss brings to the F minor Sonata, K365, justifies his sedate approach...And Weiss's innate feeling for shaping long lines helps bind the persistent dotted rhythms of the long D minor [K92].
