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Domenico Scarlatti, Mikhail Pletnev
Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (15) - Disc #1
1. Sonata K443 In D Major - Mikhail Pletnev
2. Sonata K1 In D Minor
3. Sonata K283 In G Major
4. Sonata K284 In G Major
5. Sonata K27 In B Minor
6. Sonata K380 In E Major
7. Sonata K24 In A Major
8. Sonata K247 In C Sharp Minor
9. Sonata K519 In F Minor
10. Sonata K17 In F Major
11. Sonata K9 In D Minor
12. Sonata K3 In A Minor
13. Sonata K404 In A Major
14. Sonata K213 In D Minor
15. Sonata K214 In D Major
Track Listings (16) - Disc #2
1. Sonata K96 In D Major
2. Sonata K146 In D Minor: Sonata K146 In G Major
3. Sonata K87 In B Minor
4. Sonata K520 In G Major
5. Sonata K11 In C Minor
6. Sonata K386 In F Minor
7. Sonata K387 In F Minor
8. Sonata K268 In A Major
9. Sonata K141 In D Minor
10. Sonata K113 In A Major
11. Sonata K25 In F Sharp Minor
12. Sonata K173 In B Minor
13. Sonata K523 In G Major
14. Sonata K8 In G Minor
15. Sonata K259 In G Major
16. Sonata K29 In D Major

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CD Details

All Artists: Domenico Scarlatti, Mikhail Pletnev
Title: Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 1
Label: EMI Classics
Release Date: 11/14/1995
Genre: Classical
Styles: Forms & Genres, Sonatas, Historical Periods, Baroque (c.1600-1750), Instruments, Keyboard
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPCs: 724354512322, 724354512353

Synopsis

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This two-disc set contains a dazzling assortment of music by the Baroque period's most original keyboard genius. There's no question that Scarlatti's music was conceived with the harpsichord in mind, and yet the greatest modern interpreter of his music, Vladimir Horowitz, was a pianist. Mikhail Pletnev certainly belongs in this elite company. As an interpreter, Pletnev has a reputation for willfulness and eccentricity--but then again if anyone can be called eccentric, it's Scarlatti. The secret of playing this music on the piano lies in making it sound as though it was written for the instrument. In other words, don't try to make the piano sound like a harpsichord. Pletnev doesn't. He brings the full range of pianistic resources to bear on each piece, and the results are staggeringly good. --David Hurwitz

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CD Reviews

Perfection!

marrano | 06/05/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This two-disc set received a great deal of praise when it was issued a few years ago, and with good reason: it is without question the most illuminating and ingenious recording of Scarlatti that I know (and I have heard hundreds of them). Although there is nothing "authentic" in this piano recording, in the sense of the pianist returning to original instruments or tuning, the listener does have the sense that Pletnev is connected to the origins of the music. Few people realize that Domenico Scarlatti was a little-known Italian court composer (his father wrotes operas) who went off to Iberia, and who subsequently gained inspiration from the folk music he heard in his exotic posting -- the sonatas are in many cases "translations" of the dances and songs of rural Portugal and Spain. That spirit, of song and rhythmic dance and compelling vocal lines, shines through in Pletnev's reading, in a way I have never heard with other performers. The experience of hearing these pieces is ultimately one of joy and revelation -- and it is as good on the 20th hearing as it is on the first! I've bought this set a dozen times over for friends ... doesn't that say something? An absolute classic."

Another essential Scarlatti set

Bradley P. Lehman | Dayton, VA USA | 02/27/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Not much needs to be said. This set and the single disc by Mark Swartzentruber are two extremely fine piano collections of Scarlatti's wonderful sonatas. They both surpass even the justifiably classic Horowitz interpretations.With performances at this level, it hardly matters what music is being played or what instrument it's on. The music unfolds as a completely fresh experience, even if one already knows all the notes as a player or listener. In a performance this great, every moment means something, and every moment leaves the immediate impression that the music could hardly go any other way (even if it's been surprising).Pletnev takes bold liberties with the score, both in tempo fluctuations and in dynamics. "Anything goes" in the service of the expression, and it all arises directly and naturally out of the musical content; nothing seems pasted on or willful. No artificial colors or flavors. Thorough preparation, yet an improvisatory freedom. It sounds as if he's having a great time.If you like this declamatory approach, you'll also like Swartzentruber, plus Enrico Baiano, Edward Parmentier, and Pierre Hantai on harpsichord. Obviously these sonatas could also be played more strictly and objectively, for structure, but that's for others to do on some other day. Scarlatti's music is inventive enough that it works regardless of the approach. For the dramatic and directly communicative angle, full of intensity and joy and humor, it just doesn't get better than this."

Great music...

Bradley P. Lehman | 02/23/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Disc two was on the stereo at the mucic store last night and after hearing three pieces I quickly forgot what I had came to buy and got Pletnev's Scarlatti instead."