“This glorious recording takes me back to some of the best days in my musical memory. The excellence of the music, the mastery of the playing, and the outstanding SACD audio engineering together come as close as I can remember to some live recitals I’ve heard in Madrid or Barcelona. This album of harpsichord sonatas transcribed by solo guitarist Stephen Marchionda is a gem.”
Fanfare Magazine
“Marchionda’s arrangements of these sonatas are impressively idiomatic.”
Gramophone Magazine
“The guitar is almost unrivalled in its status as the instrument of Spain. Scarlatti’s works embody the temperament of the Iberian Peninsula with an unusual intensity. When combining these two elements with the highly virtuosic and colourful playing of Stephen Marchionda, we discover a totally different side to these wonderful works which, mostly, have not been recorded on the guitar before and which, however, sound as though they were meant to be performed on this instrument.”
Class Aktuell, November 2009
Details
Sonata K 449 G major / sol majeur / G-Dur Allegro
Sonata K 450 G minor / sol mineur / G-Moll Allegrissimo
Sonata K 213 D minor / ré mineur / D-Moll Andante
Sonata K 175 A minor / la mineur / A-Moll Allegro
Sonata K 513 C major / ut majeur / C-Dur Pastorale
Sonata K 402 E minor / mi mineur / E-Moll Andante
Sonata K 403 E major / mi majeur / E-Dur Allegro
Sonata K 462 F minor / fa mineur / F-Moll Andante
Sonata K 474 E flat major / mi bémol majeur / Es-Dur Andante cantabile
Sonata K 475 E flat major / mi bémol majeur / Es-Dur Allegrissimo
Recorded in:
Concert Hall, Music Center, Marienmüenster, Germany
20-22 December 2008
MDG-Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm