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Scarlatti: Sonatas on Vinyl / Schmitt-Leonardy
Piano Classics

Scarlatti: Sonatas on Vinyl / Schmitt-Leonardy

$35.99

Details

Composer
Domenico Scarlatti
Artist
Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy
Format
Vinyl
Label
Piano Classics
Released
Jan 19, 2024
Catalog #
PCL10293
UPC
5029365102933

About

A luxury-grade vinyl transfer in a gatefold 2LP set for a beautifully engineered 2021 album of Scarlatti on the piano from a master German pianist.
On its CD release in 2022, this personal choice from Scarlatti’s 555 keyboard sonatas won an enthusiastic welcome from Gramophone. ‘Contrasts of mood together with unified relationships of tempo and key signature characterise one the most intelligently programmed and distinctively played Scarlatti collections to cross my reviewer’s desk in years.’


Hardly less than Bach, these sonatas have become for many pianists a proving ground for their own technique and imagination, rewarding an improvisatory response to their flamboyant effects. Schmitt-Leonardy also features several of Scarlatti’s most poetic and reflective sonatas such as the ‘Aria’ Kk 29 and the melancholy soliloquy of Kk 208.
The approach taken by Schmitt-Leonardy is always ‘pianistic’, in that he exploits the full tonal resources of a modern concert grand. Yet his phrasing is also sensitive to 18th-century style and to the kind of effects and articulation particular to the harpsichord for which Scarlatti was writing. ‘Kaleidoscopic nuances and dynamic gradations abound throughout the E major Kk135,’ continued the Gramophone reviewer Jed Distler, the Gramophone reviewer Jed Distler, ‘but not garishly so. Nor does the pianist’s curvaceous and tapered phrasing throughout the A major Kk322 lapse into mannerism or cliché.’
As with all Brilliant Classics and Piano Classics LPs, this set is issued on 180-gram, high-grade vinyl pressed at the Optimal factory in Hamburg. Its audiophile quality is worthy of performances which bear comparison with great Scarlatti performers of past and present from Horowitz to Pletnev. Inner-sleeve booklet notes by Peter Quantrill discuss each of the sonatas in turn.

Tracklist 17 tracks

  1. 1 Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, K.1/L.366/P.57 02:31
    Track
    1
    Title
    Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, K.1/L.366/P.57
    Duration
    02:31
    Composer
    Domenico Scarlatti
    Performer
    Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy
  2. 2 Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, K.32/L.423/P.14 02:27
    Track
    2
    Title
    Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, K.32/L.423/P.14
    Duration
    02:27
    Composer
    Domenico Scarlatti
    Performer
    Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy
  3. 3 Keyboard Sonata in D Major, K.33/L.424/P.130 03:42
    Track
    3
    Title
    Keyboard Sonata in D Major, K.33/L.424/P.130
    Duration
    03:42
    Composer
    Domenico Scarlatti
    Performer
    Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy
  4. 4 Keyboard Sonata in B Minor, K.87/L.33/P.43 06:30
    Track
    4
    Title
    Keyboard Sonata in B Minor, K.87/L.33/P.43
    Duration
    06:30
    Composer
    Domenico Scarlatti
    Performer
    Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy
  5. 5 Keyboard Sonata in D Major, K.29/L.461/P.85 04:56
    Track
    5
    Title
    Keyboard Sonata in D Major, K.29/L.461/P.85
    Duration
    04:56
    Composer
    Domenico Scarlatti
    Performer
    Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy
  6. 6 Keyboard Sonata in B Minor, K.27/L.449/P.83 03:48
    Track
    6
    Title
    Keyboard Sonata in B Minor, K.27/L.449/P.83
    Duration
    03:48
    Composer
    Domenico Scarlatti
    Performer
    Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy
  7. 7 Keyboard Sonata in G Major, K.427/L.286/P.286 02:10
    Track
    7
    Title
    Keyboard Sonata in G Major, K.427/L.286/P.286
    Duration
    02:10
    Composer
    Domenico Scarlatti
    Performer
    Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy
  8. 8 Keyboard Sonata in C Major, K.132/L.457/P.295 08:36
    Track
    8
    Title
    Keyboard Sonata in C Major, K.132/L.457/P.295
    Duration
    08:36
    Composer
    Domenico Scarlatti
    Performer
    Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy
  9. 9 Keyboard Sonata in E Minor, K.98/L.325/P.219 03:19
    Track
    9
    Title
    Keyboard Sonata in E Minor, K.98/L.325/P.219
    Duration
    03:19
    Composer
    Domenico Scarlatti
    Performer
    Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy
  10. 10 Keyboard Sonata in E Major, K.135/L.224/P.234 05:03
    Track
    10
    Title
    Keyboard Sonata in E Major, K.135/L.224/P.234
    Duration
    05:03
    Composer
    Domenico Scarlatti
    Performer
    Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy
  11. 11 Keyboard Sonata in E Major, K.162/L.21/P.162 05:25
    Track
    11
    Title
    Keyboard Sonata in E Major, K.162/L.21/P.162
    Duration
    05:25
    Composer
    Domenico Scarlatti
    Performer
    Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy
  12. 12 Keyboard Sonata in A Major, K.208/L.238/P.315 05:58
    Track
    12
    Title
    Keyboard Sonata in A Major, K.208/L.238/P.315
    Duration
    05:58
    Composer
    Domenico Scarlatti
    Performer
    Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy
  13. 13 Keyboard Sonata in A Major, K.39/L.391/P.53 02:42
    Track
    13
    Title
    Keyboard Sonata in A Major, K.39/L.391/P.53
    Duration
    02:42
    Composer
    Domenico Scarlatti
    Performer
    Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy
  14. 14 Keyboard Sonata in A Major, K.322/L.483/P.360 04:10
    Track
    14
    Title
    Keyboard Sonata in A Major, K.322/L.483/P.360
    Duration
    04:10
    Composer
    Domenico Scarlatti
    Performer
    Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy
  15. 15 Keyboard Sonata in G Major, K.455/L.209/P.354 03:22
    Track
    15
    Title
    Keyboard Sonata in G Major, K.455/L.209/P.354
    Duration
    03:22
    Composer
    Domenico Scarlatti
    Performer
    Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy
  16. 16 Keyboard Sonata in C Major, K.95/L.358 03:24
    Track
    16
    Title
    Keyboard Sonata in C Major, K.95/L.358
    Duration
    03:24
    Composer
    Domenico Scarlatti
    Performer
    Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy
  17. 17 Keyboard Sonata in F Minor, K.466/L.118/P.501 09:28
    Track
    17
    Title
    Keyboard Sonata in F Minor, K.466/L.118/P.501
    Duration
    09:28
    Composer
    Domenico Scarlatti
    Performer
    Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy