Selected Piano Sonatas - Volume I Piano Solo ・

Composer: Domenico Scarlatti
Editor: Bengt Johnsson
Instrument: Piano
Publisher: Henle Urtext Edition

Song List:
Scarlatti: Sonata A major K 268
Scarlatti: Sonata G minor K deest (First Edition)
Scarlatti: Sonata e minor K 291
Scarlatti: Sonata d minor K 294
Scarlatti: Sonata c minor K 302
Scarlatti: Sonata E flat major K 307
Scarlatti: Sonata G majeur K deest (First Edition)
Scarlatti: Sonata f minor K 386
Scarlatti: Sonata C majeur K deest (First Edition)
Scarlatti: Sonata B major K 261
Scarlatti: Sonata D major K 415
Scarlatti: Sonata D major K 430
Scarlatti: Sonata G major K 520
Scarlatti: Sonata E major K 380
Scarlatti: Sonata g minor K 88
Scarlatti: Sonata B flat major K 47
Scarlatti: Sonata C major K deest (First Edition)
Scarlatti: Sonata b minor K 197
Scarlatti: Sonata g minor K 30
Scarlatti: Sonata F major K 82
Scarlatti: Sonata a minor K 54
Scarlatti: Sonata A flat major K 127
Scarlatti: Sonata a minor K 149
Scarlatti: Sonata C major K 159

Description:
Domenico Scarlatti is today considered one of music history's great piano composers, and the first-ever piano virtuoso. The present collection contains 24 sonatas from various creative periods, offering a survey of the rich and varied output of this Italian musician who worked at the Spanish court. Scarlatti triumphed over the heavy Baroque style with his characterful themes, natural cantabile melodies, and dance-like movements. The performance-technical moment is a formally constitutive element within his one-movement sonatas. Renowned pianist Bengt Johnsson provides information on Scarlatti's life and career, as well as on the various sources on which this edition is based, in his preface to the edition. A few sonatas appear in print here for the first time. An additional “bon-bon” is the reprint of a preface to the edition of 30 of Scarlatti's piano sonatas, published in 1738. Absorbing reading for all who wish to acquire a deeper understanding of Scarlatti's piano music.

Contents: SONATAS BY K NUMBER: 30, 47, 54, 82, 88, 127, 149, 159, 197, 261, 268, 291, 294, 302, 307, 380, 386, 415, 430, 520 • Sonata in C Major, K. deest • Sonata in G Major, K. deest • Sonata in G minor, K. deest • Sonata in C Major II, K. deest