Track Listing

1. Sonata for keyboard in G minor, K. 347 (L. 126)
2. Sonata for keyboard in G major, K. 348 (L. 127)
3. Sonata for keyboard in D minor, K. 213 (L. 108) 'The Lover'
4. Sonata for keyboard in D major, K. 214 (L. 165)
5. Sonata for keyboard in F sharp major, K. 318 (L. 31)
6. Sonata for keyboard in F sharp major, K. 319 (L. 35)
7. Sonata for keyboard in E major, K. 380 (L. 23) 'Cortège'
8. Sonata for keyboard in E major, K. 381 (L. 225)
9. Sonata for keyboard in C major, K. 356 (L. 443)
10. Sonata for keyboard in C major, K. 357 (L. S45)
11. Sonata for keyboard in C minor, K. 526 (L. 456)
12. Sonata for keyboard in C major, K. 527 (L. 458)
13. Sonata for keyboard in D major, K. 478 (L. 12)
14. Sonata for keyboard in D major, K. 479 (L. S16)
15. Sonata for keyboard in F major, K. 524 (L. 283)
16. Sonata for keyboard in F major, K. 525 (L. 188)
17. Sonata for keyboard in G major, K. 454 (L. 184)
18. Sonata for keyboard in G major, K. 455 (L. 209)
19. Sonata for keyboard in B flat major, K. 248 (L. S35)
20. Sonata for keyboard in B flat major, K. 249 (L. 39)
21. Sonata for keyboard in D major, K. 436 (L. 109)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #278494 in Music
• Released on: 2004-09-14
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Great Performances of Scarlatti's Sonatas for Harpsichord
Ralph Kirkpatrick was not only a distinguished performer of the harpsichord and teacher (He spent most of his adult life as a professor of music at Yale, after being trained in Europe as well as America.), but also became a superb scholar of Baroque music with his acclaimed biography of Scarlatti. Here in this relatively inexpensive CD are his riveting performances of 21 of Scarlatti's harpsichord sonatas, recorded by Archiv (Deutsche Grammophon) in the mid 1960's. I can't single out one performance as a personal favorite, since all of these are quite good. Thanks to the latest digital 24-bit remastering, the sound quality is superb. Indeed, this fine CD is as excellent as the previously released Archiv CD sets of J. S. Bach's "Well Tempered Clavier", which Kirkpatrick played on the clavichord, not the piano.

DEFINITIVE
Ralph Kirkpatrick pretty much brought the music of Domenico Scarlatti back from oblivion. If that was not enough, he practically made Scarlatti's sonati his own by his inspired playing of them. This is the reissue of his 1970 recording for Archiv playing the Reiner Schuetze instrument, with several more sonati than were on the original. Kirkpatrick's playing and the excellence of the remastering make this a real collector's item. There is passion without the saccharine sound some modern performances on piano have added.