Cantate da Camera - Domenico Scarlatti

Hi! my friends. All this time I've been too busy, an state that have impeded me to post some wonderful cd's that I want you to know.

Now it is the turn of Domenico Scarlatti, a very prolific composer that composed mainly for the harpschord, his favorite instrument. He also traveled through the cantata genre, a genre that attained its climax in the final stages of his father's life, Alessandro Scarlatti. Domenico composed about sixty cantatas (not at all inconsiderable number) even though his father composed more than 10 times more than him. 

Domenico Scarlatti had nothing to envy others composers since his skillfulness for writing music was unique. In particular, his cantatas have not much to do with the antique stile in which the bass continuo parts were very contrapunctual. In another hand,they  have very little to do with the classical stile also, since the violins and vocal parts are merely harmonious rather than melodious. But at any rate, we all now how big his Domenico's Scarlatti print in music and in his developing.

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Fandango - Scarlatti

Genoveva Galvez, great harpsichordist, performs some spaniard sonatas belonging to to the first half of the XVIII century, some of them rediscovered not so log from the recording date (1984).

When listening this recording. I confirm my love for the harpsichord's sound, and so more delightful with works of  not so reknown composers (except for Scarlatti and Nebra).

If it liked you my last post of 15 Hapsichord sonatas by Scarlatti, no doubt you'll love this one too.

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15 Harpsichord Sonatas - Scarlatti

What would be music like nowadays without Scarlatti Harpsichord's sonatas? No doubt that our overview of music would be changed, perhaps that's the case of Seixas, presumably to have overpassed Scarlatti's musical skills, but who knows, most of his music is lost due to the 1755 Lisbon's earthquake. Some Scarlatti's music was also destroyed in that natural event, but fortunately was retrieve thanks to copies made elsewhere. 

Christophe Rousset is one of the leading harpsichordist currently, and here shows us a great versitality playing some very known Scarlati's sonatas.

Enjoy!!!          All your comments are welcome :)

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