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Angela Hewitt - Domenico Scarlatti: Sonatas (2016)

Posted By: Designol

Date: 28 Oct 2023 18:32:24

As one of the world's foremost interpreters of Baroque keyboard music on the modern piano, Angela Hewitt has established a fine reputation for impeccable playing and fresh musical insights. Listeners who cherish her award-winning recordings on Hyperion of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach have already experienced her exquisite playing, and they will be delighted to hear this selection of sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, Bach's contemporary and an innovator whose compositions influenced the development of the Classical sonata. Some of these selections are well known, particularly the Sonata in C major, Kk159, the Sonata in D major, Kk96, and the Sonata in E major, Kk380, which are often anthologized, though Hewitt hasn't packed this disc with greatest hits (with 555 sonatas to choose from, there are many less familiar that deserve attention). Hewitt's performances are thoughtfully phrased, polished in tone, and rhythmically precise with a modicum of rubato, and she is alert to the subtleties that make this music so beguiling. Hewitt recorded these 16 sonatas in the Beethovensaal in Hannover, where she made her first Bach recordings for Hyperion 20 years previously, and the acoustics are nearly ideal for her style. Of course, purists may insist on only harpsichord performances of these pieces, but for compelling piano versions, this CD is highly recommended.

Review by Blair Sanderson, Allmusic.com

Not one of Scarlatti’s 550 or so keyboard sonatas may be regarded as typical, remarked the scholar Ralph Kirkpatrick. These richly rewarding pieces –predominantly in single-movement binary form – astonish our ears with their fertile invention, variegated colours, capricious mood changes and so very often their extraordinary power to touch our sensibilities. Angela Hewitt, playing a warm-toned, evenly spoken Fazioli piano, responds intuitively and alluringly to the multi-faceted character of her chosen sonatas. At one moment she is exposing their raw, percussive elements as in the D minor Sonata, K141, where we sense an Iberian influence, or in the spirited G major Sonata, K13 evoking in its hammer strokes the overture to Rameau’s acte de ballet, Pygmalion; at another Hewitt draws us into an altogether more intimate world with tender inflections. Such is the case with the reflective B minor piece, K87, which hauntingly brings to mind Rameau’s Les tendres plaintes, and the meditative F minor Sonata, K69.

Only in the E major Sonata, K380, the best-known piece on the disc, did I feel that Hewitt’s pacing was perhaps a shade too leisurely. Otherwise this excellently recorded disc is outstanding. In her detailed essay Hewitt intimates a wish to issue further volumes. Wonderful news!

Review by Nicholas Anderson, BBC Music Magazine

Domenico Scarlatti at Allmusic
Domenico Scarlatti at Wiki

Angela Hewitt at Allmusic
Angela Hewitt Website
Angela Hewitt at Wiki

Tracklist:

01. Sonata in D minor, Kk9 (03:58)
02. Sonata in C major, Kk159 (02:20)
03. Sonata in B minor, Kk87 (06:20)
04. Sonata in D major, Kk29 (05:25)
05. Sonata in A major, Kk113 (04:20)
06. Sonata in D major, Kk430 (03:19)
07. Sonata in G minor, Kk8 (04:42)
08. Sonata in G major, Kk13 (04:21)
09. Sonata in B minor, Kk27 (04:17)
10. Sonata in D major, Kk140 (04:13)
11. Sonata in D minor, Kk141 (04:28)
12. Sonata in F minor, Kk69 (05:39)
13. Sonata in G major, Kk427 (02:29)
14. Sonata in A minor, Kk109 (08:11)
15. Sonata in D major, Kk96 (04:48)
16. Sonata in E major, Kk380 (07:11)

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