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Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas

4/1/2013, 20 Tracks, 1:14:49

Featuring

  • Alice Ader
  • Domenico Scarlatti

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Album & Artwork

The cover art for this album features a 'jamón' shop in Madrid.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Domenico Scarlatti, the composer, wrote 550 sonatas, characterized by an inexhaustible imagination and a language with incredible, ever-renewed harmonic modernity.

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

This album was recorded in Paris at IRCAM between June 21-23, 2010, using a Steinway piano.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Alice Ader, the pianist on this recording, first heard Domenico Scarlatti's sonatas played by Wanda Landowska, a famous harpsichordist, on an old black record.

Source: Booklet

Interpretation

Alice Ader's approach to Scarlatti's music on the piano is inspired by the freedom of phrasing and 'expressive rubato' often used by harpsichordists.

Source: Booklet

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