This Chandos recording uses 24-bit / 96 kHz technology, which offers a dynamic range up to 48 dB greater and 256 times the resolution of standard 16-bit recordings.
Compositional Technique
Scarlatti's keyboard style is notable for its bold breaking of compositional rules, including unusual harmonic progressions and strong dissonances, almost like an 'emancipation of the dissonance'.
Composition History
The Essercizi per gravicembalo, a set of thirty sonatas, was the only authorized publication of Domenico Scarlatti's sonatas during his lifetime, published in London in 1739.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Domenico Scarlatti's sonatas often use mixed musical styles, frequently in strong opposition to one another, which was a progressive trait for his era.
Composer Biography
There is a relative lack of information about Domenico Scarlatti, with no surviving autographs of his keyboard sonatas and only one letter from his hand.
Performer Biography
Federico Colli, the pianist on this album, won First Prize at the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg in 2011 and a Gold Medal at the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2012.
Composer Biography
Domenico Scarlatti, the composer, was granted the Cross of the Order of Santiago by the Portuguese King John V in April 1738.
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