This page lists all recordings of Keyboard Sonata K517 in D minor, by Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) on CD, SACD & download (MP3 & FLAC). Generally, more recent releases are listed first, but with priority given to those that are in stock. |
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Domenico Scarlatti was born in 1685, the same year as J S Bach and Handel. Early life was spent in Naples and Rome where his father Alessandro held important posts. From 1719 he resided in Portugal, teaching keyboard to Maria Bárbara, daughter of King John V, whose marriage ten years later initiated a move to the Spanish court where he remained based until his death in 1757. Few details are known of Scarlatti’s life and a considerable amount of his music has been lost. He nevertheless left 555 single movement sonatas contained in two collections known as the Venice and Parma manuscripts. His brilliance at the keyboard is reflected in these sonatas which require very considerable dexterity. For this recording Carole Cerasi, whose previous discs for Metronome have attracted important awards and critical acclaim, has chosen fifteen contrasting sonatas which brilliantly illustrate Scarlatti’s staggering virtuosity, unexpected eccentricities and a strong awareness of Iberian influences. “Cerasi's recording builds a sense of a deeper Scarlatti, a composer filled with delightful musical quirks and oddities, at turns wheeling, ruminative and bumptious. It is a well-plotted disc, capturing the full range of the composer's moods...With Cerasi, there are no false steps...In short, Cerasi's disc is [a] delight and will please longtime Scarlatti collectors as much as it entices newcomers to explore further.” Gramophone Magazine, July 2012 “Domenico Scarlatti's fusion of Italian and Iberian styles dazzles in this artfully programmed recital...It's a playful performance, as impressive in its moments of introspection as it is in those of extrovert brilliance.” The Independent on Sunday, 3rd June 2012 ***** | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Scarlatti - Highlights from the 'Complete Sonatas'48 Favourite Sonatas
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| |  | Scarlatti - DuendeHarpsichord Sonatas
“…this is a disc fired with an all-embracing Mediterranean volatility, a smouldering sense of danger, and dusted with the pungent Hispanic kick of smoked paprika. If you buy just one Scarlatti disc this anniversary year, make it this one.” BBC Music Magazine, August 2007 ***** | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | Scarlatti - 15 Sonatas
Recorded: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, 09/1987 | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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| |  | Scarlatti & Haydn - Piano Sonatas
Recorded in 1963 (Scarlatti) & 1973 (Haydn) | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Domenico Scarlatti - Sonatas Volume 3
“Pierre Hantaï… beings… with one of the composer's most intimate pieces, the D minor Sonata, K213… Hantaï discovers its poetry in unhurried and reflective playing of great beauty. In striking contrast… is the D major Sonata, K511. Hantaï gives a dazzling account of it, exuding an irrepressible joie de vivre while preserving clarity of texture and demonstrating a cogency of thought.” BBC Music Magazine, March 2006 ***** “Pierre Hantai's third volume of Scarlatti is, once again, both beautifully programmed and recorded in an ideal acoustic” International Record Review BBC Music Magazine
Instrumental Choice - March 2006 |
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| |  | Domenico Scarlatti - Sonatas
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) wrote 555 sonatas for harpsichord. Following the custom of the period, these sonatas may be played on various keyboard instruments. Scarlatti was not only a virtuoso harpsichordist but also an exceptional organist. Some sonatas, by virtue of their nature or of how they are written, are particularly well suited to the organ. Examples include certain preludes and fugues from Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, which dates from the same period. Vincent Boucher has chosen 18 sonatas which not only can be played on the organ, but on which he feels the organ sheds "a new and favorable light by virtue of its colorful registrations, the notes held and heard for their full duration, the doubling of low notes by the pedal, etc." Vincent Boucher played these sonatas on the splendid Italian organ, made by Karl Wilhelm, of the Très-Saint-Rédempteur church in Montreal. | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Scarlatti - Complete Keyboard Sonatas Volume 2
“Michael Lewin is an American pianist as dexterous and assured as he's audacious. Here there's no sense of 'studio' caution but only of liberating and dazzling music-making, live and on the wing. Kk492 in D could hardly provide a more brilliant curtain-raiser, and in Kk3 in A minor (the one where Scarlatti's impish humour offers the musical equivalent of someone slipping on a banana skin) Lewin's playing positively brims over with high spirits. The D major Sonata, Kk33, is all thrumbing guitars and bursts of sunlight and in Kk141, with its cascades of repeated notes, Lewin even gives Martha Argerich a run for her money. There's a no less appealing balm and musical quality in the more restrained numbers such as Kk32 in D minor and Kk208 in A, though the recital comes to a suitably ebullient conclusion with Kk517 in D minor which is here like a river in full spate. The New York-based recordings are suitably lively. Not even the most persistent lover of Scarlatti on the harpsichord could accuse Michael Lewin of an absence of the necessary glitter, panache and stylistic awareness.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 “A promising start to another colossal series, the complete sonatas of Scarlatti, here performed with panache by Michael Lewin.” Gramophone Magazine, February 2000 | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Scarlatti: Sonatas For Harpsichord (Vol 2)
Luc Beauséjour (Harpsichord) | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Peter Katin plays Scarlatti
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