Nicola Reniero - D. Scarlatti: Sonatas (2019)

Posted By: varrock
Date: April 28, 2019

Nicola Reniero - D. Scarlatti: Sonatas (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 402 MB | Tracks: 19 | 73:11 min
Style: Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics

Played by the right hands, the astonishing freshness of invention of Scarlatti’s sonatas emerges with no less brilliance on the piano than his intended harpsichord. So why not the organ too?

In fact Scarlatti probably intended only three of his 555 surviving keyboard sonatas specifically for an organ. Yet even on the instruments of his own time, in churches and chapels across Europe and especially his native Italy and adopted home of Spain, the palette of colours offered by a well-appointed organ brings these vibrantly coloured works to life without any fear of them being obscured by clouds of bass pedal or resonance.

In the useful booklet note accompanying this new recording, the organist Nicola Reniero explains that his selection of 19 sonatas concentrates on particularly intricate or individual examples of polyphony and fugue where the organ’s diversity of register and colour may be thought to excel. He does so, however, without neglecting the principle that in Scarlatti’s music almost everything is vocal and theatrical: the introduction is like the curtain that rises; the themes are the characters, and the various sections of the piece are like scenes of a wordless drama.

Reniero has chosen to avoid the kind of echo effects which would be a conventional way to introduce contrast between phrases: ‘I have tried instead to emphasize the originality of the harmonies or the characters of famous themes.’ The album closes with the most spectacular of all Scarlatti’s fugues, K417 in D minor. It is a stunning piece not only on account of the frenzied finale and the unexpected change of scene that comes about halfway through the piece, but above all for the boundless energy that pervades it throughout.

For this new recording, Reniero plays the organ of the Duomo di Desenzano in the town of Garda, a two-manual instrument first reconstructed by the Serassi Brothers (1835-1837) and then restored and partially rebuilt by Marco Fratti in 2014. The booklet includes full organ specifications and photographs.

Organist Nicola Reniero is one of the foremost keyboard players of Italy. He is one of the founders of L’Arte dell’Arco, he played with Christopher Hogwood and Gustav Leonhardt, and he recorded for Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, CPO and Brilliant Classics.

Tracklist:

01. Sonata in G Major, K.284
02. Sonata in G Major, K.283
03. Sonata in E Minor, K.263
04. Sonata in C Major, K.513
05. Sonata in F Major, K.276
06. Sonata in F Minor, K.183
07. Sonata in C Minor, K.58
08. Sonata in F Minor, K.69
09. Sonata in F Major, K.82
10. Sonata in D Minor, K.92
11. Sonata in D Minor, K.294
12. Sonata in G Minor, K.93
13. Sonata in G Major, K.328
14. Sonata in D Major, K.287
15. Sonata in D Major, K.288
16. Sonata in D Major, K.281
17. Sonata in B Minor, K.87
18. Sonata in D Major, K.415
19. Sonata in D Minor, K.417



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