The beauty of Scarlatti - Sonata in A major K208 (Nikolaj Koppel)

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Domenico Scarlatti (1685 - 1757):
SONATA IN A MAJOR (K208/L238)

Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. His music was influential in the development of the Classical style and he was one of the few Baroque composers to transition into the classical period. Like his renowned father Alessandro Scarlatti, he composed in a variety of musical forms, although today he is known mainly for his 555 keyboard sonatas.

Only a small fraction of Scarlatti's compositions were published during his lifetime; Scarlatti himself seems to have overseen the publication in 1738 of the most famous collection, his 30 Essercizi ("Exercises"). These were well received throughout Europe, and were championed by the foremost English writer on music of the eighteenth century, Charles Burney. Ralph Kirkpatrick numbered these sonatas K1 - K30.

The many sonatas that were unpublished during Scarlatti's lifetime have appeared in print irregularly in the two and a half centuries since. Scarlatti has attracted notable admirers, including Béla Bartók, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Pieter-Jan Belder, Johannes Brahms, Frédéric Chopin, Emil Gilels, Enrique Granados, Marc-André Hamelin, Vladimir Horowitz, Franz Liszt, Ivo Pogorelich, Scott Ross, Heinrich Schenker, András Schiff, and Dmitri Shostakovich.

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[adrianoseresi]

This is such a beautiful sonata. And it’s simplicity certainly adds to that. It’s such a joy to play something like this where the technical demands are low but the musical pleasure is undiminished by that fact.

[LittleDadzz]

It seems a miss that Nikolaj Koppel left the concert pianist career. Really into this interpretation. Gentle, subtle yet correct and ...individualistic in its best sense.

[excelsior]

A very sensitive reading of this lovely piece. Bravo.

[Chrismacleod]

Beautiful use of syncopation! This is a very delicate sonata! Thank you! 💐🌹😀🦋🍀👍

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Thank you so much, I am using this to try and help me learn this piece with the exact sheet music