Soyeon Lee - Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol.8 (2008)
XLD | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 62:10 | 228 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | Catalog: 8.570010
XLD | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 62:10 | 228 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | Catalog: 8.570010
This group of Domenico Scarlatti keyboard sonatas from an ongoing Naxos series presents what can fairly be called an old-fashioned approach to the composer's music, although that's not to say anything against it. The young Korean American pianist Soyeon Lee harks back to the times when pianists phrased Scarlatti a good deal like Mozart, who himself was viewed through the prism of Romanticism. In place of the percussive harpsichord rhythms and sharp contrasts of recent Scarlatti performances, you get pedal, gracefully shaped phrases, and a smoothing of the edges of Scarlatti's style.