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Scarlatti: Sonatas Transcribed for Violin & Harpsichord

4/16/2021, 24 Tracks, 1:15:10

Featuring

  • Paweł Łosakiewicz
  • Lilianna Stawarz
  • Domenico Scarlatti

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Interpretation

The interpretation on this album combines early music traditions with modern instruments, reflecting a dialogue and mutual inspiration between different approaches to performance.

Source: Booklet

Instruments

Lilianna Stawarz, the harpsichordist, plays a 1976 copy of a Blanchet instrument, built in William Dowd's workshop.

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

This album was recorded at the Concert Hall of the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw across three dates in 2019 and 2020.

Source: Booklet

Instruments

Paweł Łosakiewicz, the violinist on this album, plays an 'Antonius & Hieronymus Fr Amati Cremonem Andreae Fil. F 1616' violin, which is on loan from a private collection.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Domenico Scarlatti's 555 sonatas, which he modestly called 'essercizi' (exercises), were dedicated to Infanta Barbara of Portugal, the daughter of King John V, and were intended to improve her finger technique on the harpsichord.

Source: Booklet

Critical Reception

Scarlatti's sonatas were praised by composers like Beethoven, Brahms, and Mendelssohn, and continue to be programmed by pianists in their recitals.

Source: Booklet

Historical Context

Domenico Scarlatti, the composer of the sonatas on this album, was born in 1685, the same year as fellow geniuses Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frederick Handel.

Source: Booklet

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