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This series just can`t be beat for Quality and value, It`s a shame Scarlatti only wrote 555 sonatas. Buy the series (now standing at 13 discs).Can not be bettered
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Probably Not for Everyone
2 Jun 2008
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This, the ninth of the Naxos series comprising the whole of Scarlatti's keyboard sonatas, has been assigned to the Sicilian pianist Francesco Nicolosi. Others have been played, by among others, Benjamin Frith, Konstantin Scherbakov, Jeno Jändo and an exciting newcomer, Soyeon Lee, e.g., Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 1, Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 2, Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 8 It is not, in my opinion, one of the best of the lot. For one thing Nicolosi, who specializes in, of all things, the music of the Austrian composer Sigismund Thalberg, plays these pieces much too much as if they had been written in the nineteenth century. That is to say, he uses too much pedal, swoons and swans over phrasing, and has much the most tempo instability of all the pianists in this series. Still, he is a talented player with clean technique and a clear idea of what he is about, and one always admires a player who knows his own mind. I'm sure there are those for whom his approach will be appreciated. And indeed there are a few of the thirteen sonatas here presented that are more successful than others.
For instance, the first band on the CD is devoted to the Sonata in D Minor, K52/L267/P42, which is one of the more densely harmonized slow sonatas. It lends itself to Nicolosi's almost Brahmsian approach. The same is true of his way with the Sonata in D Major, K277/L183/P275. Among the faster sonatas, he does well with the toccata-like Sonata in G Major, K79/L80/P204, although there is a bit too much pedal for my taste.
Recorded sound is good, and the piano is well-regulated.
One feature of this release is a small announcement at the end of the enclosed booklet trumpeting a 'Free Download from Classicsonline!'. One goes to classicsonline.com and is able, using a 'promotion code', to download a track from an album of Soler Sonatas for Harpsichord. A nice touch.
Scott Morrison
For instance, the first band on the CD is devoted to the Sonata in D Minor, K52/L267/P42, which is one of the more densely harmonized slow sonatas. It lends itself to Nicolosi's almost Brahmsian approach. The same is true of his way with the Sonata in D Major, K277/L183/P275. Among the faster sonatas, he does well with the toccata-like Sonata in G Major, K79/L80/P204, although there is a bit too much pedal for my taste.
Recorded sound is good, and the piano is well-regulated.
One feature of this release is a small announcement at the end of the enclosed booklet trumpeting a 'Free Download from Classicsonline!'. One goes to classicsonline.com and is able, using a 'promotion code', to download a track from an album of Soler Sonatas for Harpsichord. A nice touch.
Scott Morrison
very boring
18 Mar 2012
Format:Audio CD
I have to admit that I could not make it to the end, although I gave this CD a try 2 or 3 times. This interpretation is too boring. Slow tempi, low dynamics, the playing is totally restrained, there is no emotion in it. At no time one can hear that this spirited music was created by a Neapolitan composer. What's very strange is the fact that the pianist comes from Sicilia, a province in Southern Italy where people are supposedly known for their passionate temperament! I'm afraid but this is not an adequate interpretation of Scarlatti's music.
What a pity, for the concept of Naxos to publish Complete Keyboard Sonatas with different performers and therefore a wider spectrum of interpretations is very interesting (and also because they are played on piano, not on harpsicord as usual) - and there are excellent performings in this series (very promising start with Vol 1. Eteri Andjaparidze, also Scherbakow, Wallisch,...)
What a pity, for the concept of Naxos to publish Complete Keyboard Sonatas with different performers and therefore a wider spectrum of interpretations is very interesting (and also because they are played on piano, not on harpsicord as usual) - and there are excellent performings in this series (very promising start with Vol 1. Eteri Andjaparidze, also Scherbakow, Wallisch,...)
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