Scarlatti: 37 Keyboard Sonatas / Korstick

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Label
CPO
Release Date
January 14, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Domenico Scarlatti
    • PERFORMER
      Michael Korstick
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 14, 2022
    • UPC
      761203547326
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      555473-2
    • LABEL
      CPO
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Keyboard Sonata in E Major, K.380/L.23/P.483

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    2. Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, K.9/L.413/P.65

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    3. Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, K.1/L.366/P.57

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    4. Keyboard Sonata in G Minor, K.8/L.488/P.64

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    5. Keyboard Sonata in G Minor, K.8/L.488/P.64 (alternative version)

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    6. Keyboard Sonata in C Minor, K.11/L.352/P.67

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    7. Keyboard Sonata in E Major, K.20/L.375/P.76

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    8. Keyboard Sonata in B Minor, K.27/L.449/P.83

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    9. Keyboard Sonata in D Major, K.29/L.461/P.85

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    10. Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, K.32/L.423/P.14

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    11. Keyboard Sonata in D Major, K.33/L.424/P.130

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    12. Keyboard Sonata in B Minor, K.87/L.33/P.43

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    13. Keyboard Sonata in A Major, K.113/L.345/P.160

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    14. Keyboard Sonata in D Major, K.118/L.122/P.266

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    15. Keyboard Sonata in D Major, K.119/L.415/P.217

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    16. Keyboard Sonata in C Major, K.132/L.457/P.295

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    17. Keyboard Sonata in E Major, K.135/L.224/P.234

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    18. Keyboard Sonata in G Major, K.146/L.349/P.106

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    19. Keyboard Sonata in E Major, K.162/L.21/P.162

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    20. Keyboard Sonata in A Major, K.208/L.238/P.315

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    21. Keyboard Sonata in F Minor, K.239/L.281/P.56

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    22. Keyboard Sonata in C-Sharp Minor, K.247/L.256/P.297

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    23. Keyboard Sonata in A Major, K.322/L.483/P.360

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    24. Keyboard Sonata in G Major, K.427/L.286/P.286

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    25. Keyboard Sonata in G Minor, K.450/L.338/P.422

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    26. Keyboard Sonata in G Major, K.454/L.184/P.423

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    27. Keyboard Sonata in C Major, K.460/L.324/P.378

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    28. Keyboard Sonata in F Minor, K.466/L.118/P.501

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    29. Keyboard Sonata in F Minor, K.481/L.187/P.504

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    30. Keyboard Sonata in D Major, K.491/L.164/P.484

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    31. Keyboard Sonata in D Major, K.492/L.14/P.443

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    32. Keyboard Sonata in C Major, K.502/L.3/P.408

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    33. Keyboard Sonata in C Major, K.514/L.1/P.389

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    34. Keyboard Sonata in E Major, K.531/L.430/P.535

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    35. Keyboard Sonata in A Minor, K.532/L.223/P.536

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    36. Keyboard Sonata in C Major, K.159/L.104/P.418

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick

    37. Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, K.141/L.422/P.271

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Michael Korstick


With his more than sixty prizewinning recordings, Michael Korstick has gained renown as one of Germany’s leading pianists. And now, with his new recording of sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, he again sets accents and interpretive standards. The score texts, especially as far as ornamentation is concerned, often cannot be written out with precision or brought into systematic agreement in parallel passages. Much in these score texts creates the impression of a sketch and practically invites the player to make individual decisions.

An improvisational element is proper to all the pieces; no sonata follows a predictable course apart from the fact that they as a rule consist of two parts, each of which is repeated. There are many characteristics in Scarlatti’s music that immediately catch the ear’s attention: wit, generosity, keen understanding, irony, sensibility, and not least a healthy portion of the self-confidence forming a super-virtuoso’s sine qua non. The combination of the most sophisticated techniques, some of them acrobatic, with extremely catchy thematic material is characteristic of Scarlatti’s sonatas, but what never fails to astonish us is also his capacity for lyrical introspection in its most manifestations, from the greatest sorrow through the profoundest mourning to meditative absorption. Again, other pieces imitate the sounds of instruments so very different as flutes, oboes, trumpets, horns, guitars, mandolins, castanets, and drums.

This recording presents in full the thirty-two sonatas of the Auswahlband IV of the G. Henle Verlag as well as four of Scarlatti’s most beloved sonatas, which have been published separately by the G. Henle Verlag. The selection of pieces for Band IV has at its goal the presentation of what may be described as the essence or “The Best of” Scarlatti’s art of invention.