Soler Sonatas

[belvoce]

Has anyone played a sonata by Soler? If so, is there one that is worth playing?

[Clare]

I have a 'best of' CD that I haven't listened to yet. I'll get back to you.

Everyone who has heard his stuff, though, thinks it's crazy good. And also just plain crazy.

[Chrysalis]

Interview with the vampire (movie) has a piano piece of soler (blabla in F# or something, shall look it up) it's claudia playing it in front of his teacher.

The film also has a Joseph Haydn piece (piano sonata :#52) where a zombie lestat is playing it (melancholic cantabile piece).

I also have a best of soler disk but also didnt listen it so far...but i sure will and post my likes/dislikes here

[bernhard]

Have a look here for another thread dealing with Soler:

http://www.pianoforum.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=repo;action=display;num=1083893190

Here are three beautiful sonatas to get you started:

Sonata no. 28 in C
Sonata no. 37 in D
Sonata no. 47 in Cm

They are not “sonatas” in the classical sense, but modelled on Scarlattti sonatas – which they resemble to a certain extent (Soler was Scarlatti’s pupil).

Naxos has recorded the complete sonatas (on the harpsichord, though)

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[belvoce]

Thanks everyone for your replies. I did some searching and found a website that describes Soler's life, his music compositions, and has midi files of a few of his sonatas. (they are played on a harpsichord)

http://home.sprynet.com/~izumirm/solerpag.htm

Pretty cool!