Help with Scarlatti

[nicco]

My teacher recommended me to try 3-4 different scarlatti sonatas, each different type, major, minor, lyrical, fast, slow, combinations etc

can anyone recommend a few? did you play any yourself?

[sarahlein]

https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,2339.msg20064.html
(Scarlatti-by Bernhard)

[soliloquy]

K.517 for fast and K.417 for fugue.  Slow ones are boring.

[nedgerhart]

If the music you have is from a master like Scarlatti, the only reason it would be boring is if you makes it so.  Listen to what is being said at lessons.

Ned

[Mozartian]

k. 98- love that ne

[soliloquy]

If the music you have is from a master like Scarlatti, the only reason it would be boring is if you makes it so.  Listen to what is being said at lessons.

Ned

 


Riiiiiiiiight, because nothing Mozart or Beethoven or Bach or Schubert wrote is boring 

From your lack of making sense, I would assume you're not from an English-speaking country, but then again, "if you makes it so" would make me think you're from Alabama.  Maybe you're from like, the deep south of Siberia?

Either way, we can't all be as good as you and make any piece whatsoever sound like a masterpiece!  Please don't hold me to the incredibly high standards of your own playing   It's not fair...  I'm just a lowly professional pianist who happens to plays more Scarlatti than Pletnev trying to make a living in this cruel world, competing against masters such as yourself and Hamelin 


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Nicco, check these out.  These are my favorites:

Scarlatti Sonata K. 022
Scarlatti Sonata K. 033
Scarlatti Sonata K. 048
Scarlatti Sonata K. 056
Scarlatti Sonata K. 061
Scarlatti Sonata K. 082
Scarlatti Sonata K. 098
Scarlatti Sonata K. 114
Scarlatti Sonata K. 118
Scarlatti Sonata K. 124
Scarlatti Sonata K. 141
Scarlatti Sonata K. 212
Scarlatti Sonata K. 224
Scarlatti Sonata K. 230
Scarlatti Sonata K. 239
Scarlatti Sonata K. 298
Scarlatti Sonata K. 348
Scarlatti Sonata K. 351
Scarlatti Sonata K. 386
Scarlatti Sonata K. 417
Scarlatti Sonata K. 444
Scarlatti Sonata K. 448
Scarlatti Sonata K. 450
Scarlatti Sonata K. 517

[nicco]

Thanks soliloquy Those were really great!

[kelly_kelly]

Slow ones are boring.

I disagree. I personally like K. 466 and K. 54.

[soliloquy]

I disagree. I personally like K. 466 and K. 54.

Those are good examples of some of his very nice Larghetic ones.  Generally, though, I prefer him at his best: full of Spanish fire.  Most of the slower ones tend to run together; that's why I said to steer clear of them.