Hi, I started to listen to the scarlatti sonatas and really liked the one I listened to so I would appreciate if anyone could recommend some their favourites and put the sonatas in progressive order of difficulty? (and if you Bernhard see this message please put them in the 5 levels you gaved me )Thanks in advance
i've paired the minor K9 with major K119. d minor and D major. Some can stand alone and some are even triple sonatas. i personally love to hear interpretations also on the guitar. gives you some good ideas for interpretation (much like granados spanish dances).
Bernhard: What grade is K450? And which sonata do you mean with K3, graded 8.
Here are over 200 Scarlatti sonatas in progressive order of difficulty(it should get you started - grades are ABRSM):
Good ol' Bernhard, spamming the forums again I need to dig out my Scarlatti book. I bought it about a month ago, but I haven't had time to learn any pieces. I will consult the spam above to find an appropriate piece
Asterisks mark ones with some musical worth.
Appreciate you updating this old thread! But it would have been smarter to leave out such subjective evaluations and leave it to the player/listener to decide for themselves. Why would anyone pick up a piece with no musical worth? And it's hard to agree with your assesment anyway...
People can disregard it at will; it seems much less likely that they would want to listen to 60 or 70 sonatas in encyclopedic fashion than be bothered by the presence of my opinion. They are presented in the context of technique and some have value mostly as exercises, so I think the reason for including some opinion on the musical worth is apparent.If you disagree with something it would be better to know what you disagree with. I would be pretty surprised if there weren't at least a few mistakes or omissions.