| 1. Tracklist |
| 2. 01. Sonata in B Minor, Kk. 377 |
| 3. 02. Sonata in A Major, Kk. 208 |
| 4. 03. Sonata in A Major, Kk. 209 |
| 5. 04. Sonata in D Minor, Kk. 32 |
| 6. 05. Sonata in D Minor, Kk. 77 |
| 7. 06. Sonata in D Minor, Kk. 77 |
| 8. 07. Sonata in D Minor, Kk. 34 |
| 9. 08. Sonata in E Minor, Kk. 291 |
| 10. 09. Sonata in E Minor, Kk. 292 |
| 11. 10. Sonata in B Minor, Kk. 87 |
| 12. 11. Sonata in F Minor, Kk. 481 |
| 13. 12. Sonata in E-Flat Major, Kk. 476 |
| 14. 13. Sonata in D Minor, Kk. 213 |
| 15. The 600 or so sonatas for harpsichord by Domenico Scarlatti contain some of the most remarkable music for keyboard from the Barock era. The influence of these works can be detected in the sonatas of Haydn, Clementi, and Beethoven. The fact that these composers, who developed the piano sonata form to new levels virtuosity, and at a time when the piano was a ‘new’ instrument, developing constantly, were influenced by his examples, has lead to many performers re-appraising Scarlatti’s sonatas |
| 16. How would they sound on other instruments? The modern concert grand is, today, no stranger to Scarlatti’s sonatas, but the guitar? The great Andres Segovia was one of the first to recognise that many of these sonatas would work for the guitar. His idea was not to imitate the harpsichord , but to bring out hitherto unexplored textures and colours contained in the music that only the guitar could realise. There wasn’t much in the way of period interpretation or slavish imitation of keyboard practice in Segovia’s approach. It was a marvellously ‘gut feel’ instinctive interpretation that divided opinion |
| 17. In 1994 Claudio Giuliani attempted to navigate a path for guitarists through the purists and Segovia’s opposing positions and published a collection of Scarlatti’s sonatas that lie within the compass of the guitar |
| 18. On this CD Attademo skilfully demonstrates that the two schools of thought can be brought together – Scarlatti’s genius as keyboard virtuoso, and the genius and instinctiveness of Segovia |
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