Scarlatti: Piano Works, Vol. 1

Scarlatti: Piano Works, Vol. 1

The Baroque composer Domenico Scarlatti wrote no fewer than 555 keyboard sonatas, and it can be difficult getting a clear overview of his achievement. The elegance and quick-wittedness of Colli’s playing is particularly evident in the Keyboard Sonata in D Major, Kk. 492, where his quicksilver staccato fingerwork in Keyboard Sonata in F Major, Kk. 525 also impresses. Colli is at pains to demonstrate Scarlatti’s serious side too. In Sonata in B Minor, Kk. 197 he teases out an exquisite tenderness and poetry, and finds ethereality in the beguiling Sonata in A Major, Kk. 208. Colli’s sensitivity to nuance and his pearl-like piano tone make him an ideal guide to Scarlatti’s endlessly absorbing pieces.

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