Domenico Scarlatti - Sonata in D minor K1 (Ivo Pogorelich)

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Domenico Scarlatti (1685 - 1757):
SONATA IN D MINOR (K1/L366)

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The many sonatas that were unpublished during Scarlatti's lifetime have appeared in print irregularly in the two and a half centuries since.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.

Ivo Pogorelich (January 1987)
Recorded at Schloss Eckartsau near Vienna (Austria)

PS: The second eighth note/quaver in bar 7 (English: B, German: H) was missing in the printed score and has been added.

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[stigekalder]

The immense power of this piece in the hands of Pogorelich overwhelms me everytime I hear it

[mrmfwettlaufer]

Perfect tempo. Beautiful interpretation.

[excelsior]

There are many fine pianists who can do justice to the sublime sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti, but there is only one Pogo. Note how well he effortleessly articulates every note neatly and cleanly because with this pianist, every note actually DOES count.

[antonellamajorano]

Che meravigliosa cadenza! La sinistra regge tutto il pezzo.
Più sento Scarlatti e Bach e sempre più comprendo che la formazione di un pianista deve necessariamente passare di là. 😍💃

[scronx]

Beautiful -- such gusto, such LIFE in his playing.

[Maisiewuppp]

Just leaps off the page onto the keyboard. Beautiful piece.

[dmitrishostakovich]

Fabulous!! Beautiful performance by Pogorelich

[natasamladenovic]

Ana Vidovic plays this beautifully on the guitar. Pogorelic too.

[MadiniLadinoM]

Wonderful rendition, perfect tempo and articulation, crispy, shiny, definitively my favorite version and is from Pogorelich! Many pianists think about Scarlatti like a speed competition, but it's a BIG NO! Scarlatti is about articulation, expression, and a truly understanding of what Scarlatti wants to transmit thru his music! I think Pogo nailed it!

[hadademian]

My mind throwing Rameau's les cyclops to me when i listen to this

[francoperez]

Infinitamente agradecido por esta maravillosa lista de reproducción!

[mmuraha]

I listening to your music now. Very good....

[lemonxalex]

i’m playing this for my grade 7 exam and it is so difficult

[jesusoviedo]

La influencia musical de J. S. Bach es inevitable. Hermosa obra

[alexgebruers]

This is sooo hard to play well
, he makes it sound so easy haha

[Ivan_Nikola_Juric]

I'm playing this piece on acordion

[alainspiteri]

For ten years old it's the best work and the best music for a disabled man also, in two words very good piece to work young fingers and no more

[AaronTheSilver]

This piece sounds like the theme levels of Castlevania's Dracula X

[nikai_ryosuke_]

Try listen with video speed of 1.25... To me that normal speed it way a bit slower than the expected Allegro in this piece

[mourgoukos]

I never realized it, till I saw it written down
It is so much like Mendelssohn (or the other way round...)