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Sandro Russo - Scarlatti Recreated: Transcriptions and Hommages (2013) Lossless

Sandro Russo - Scarlatti Recreated: Transcriptions and Hommages (2013) Lossless

BAND/ARTIST: Sandro Russo

  • Title: Scarlatti Recreated: Transcriptions and Hommages
  • Year Of Release: 2013
  • Label: Musical Concepts
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue,log)
  • Total Time: 01:01:09
  • Total Size: 222 Mb
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Tracklist:

01. Capriccio in E (arr. of the Sonata K.20/L.375) 2:38
02. Sonata in C (arr. of the Sonata K.488/L.205) 2:50
03. Andante in b-flat (arr. of the Sonata K.377/L.263) 3:22
04. Scherzo in F (arr. of the Sonata K.525/L.188) 2:29
05. Sonata no. 7 in g: Allegretto sentimentale (arr. of the Sonata K.102/L.89) 2:28
06. Sonata no. 18 in G: Allegro molto (arr. of the Sonata K.547/L.S28) 2:17
07. Sonata no. 5 in F: Allegretto (arr. of the Sonata K.541/L.120) 4:31
08. Sonata no. 15 in d: Allegro alla toccata (arr. of the Sonata K.553/L.425) 2:29
09. Sonata no. 12 in D: Adagio (arr. of the Sonata K.534/L.11) 3:32
10. Sonata no. 19 in a: Andantino mosso (arr. of the Sonata K.109/L.138) 5:52
11. Sonata no. 20 in A: Allegro impetuoso (arr. of the Sonata K.211/L.133) 2:50
12. Sonata in the Style of Domenico Scarlatti, op. 788 4:06
13. Pastorale (arr. of the Sonata K.446/L.433) 4:42
14. Gigue (arr. of the Sonata K.523/L.490) 2:31
15. Duettino 1:41
16. Etude VI: Esercizio per Pianoforte (Omaggio a Domenico Scarlatti) 3:34
17. Hommage à Domenico Scarlatti (Allegro) 3:23
18. Toccata alla Scarlatti 3:07
19. Homage to Domenico Scarlatti (based on the Sonata L.104) 2:46

Composers:
1–2: Carl Tausig
3–4: Louis Brassin,
5–11: Enrique Granados
12: Carl Czerny
13–14: Ignaz Friedman
15: Charles Valentin Alkan
16: Marc-André Hamelin
17: Jean Françaix
18: Raymond Lewenthal
19: Michael Habermann

Performers:
Sandro Russo, piano

What a wonderful idea: Here’s a program that features transcriptions of Domenico Scarlatti’s keyboard sonatas along with original works that use the sonatas as a jumping-off point. Many Classical- and Romantic-period composers and pianists felt the need to update Scarlatti’s keyboard textures by filling in chords, adding double notes or octaves, or spicing up the harmonies. Politically incorrect by 21st-century standards, true, but “inauthenticity” can be fun, especially in the hands of a pianist like Sandro Russo.
He revels in Louis Brassin’s unabashedly upholstered transformation of the K. 525 F major sonata and its humorously leaping embellishments, and conveys the full impact of Granados’ subtle, full-bodied piano writing with little help from the sustain pedal. The multi-layered strands of Ignaz Friedman’s busy rewrite of K. 523 suggests an overdubbed second piano, while Russo captures the impetuous quality of Marc-André Hamelin’s bitonal Scarlatti-based etude with no less sparkle than in the composer’s own performances. And although several pianists have taken up Raymond Lewenthal’s nutty, harmonically pungent Scarlatti-like Toccata in recent years, Russo’s crisp rhythms and slightly dry touch are just what the doctor ordered. Even after you’ve finished playing this disc, your ears will continue to smile. -- Jed Distler




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