If I Could Choose Only One Work By...SCARLATTI
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- It Would Have To Be...Sonatas (all of them!)
Because, quite frankly, there is no other choice.
The List So Far:
1. Ravel: Ma Mère l’Oye (Mother Goose Ballet)
2. Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
3. Schubert: String Quintet in C major
4. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4
5. Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection”
6. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
7. Debussy: Preludes for Piano (Books 1 & 2)
8: Handel: Saul
9. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
10. Brahms: String Sextet No. 2 in G major
11. Vaughan Williams: Job
12. Bach: Goldberg Variations
13. R. Strauss: Four Last Songs
14. Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust
15. Haydn: “Paris” Symphonies (Nos. 82-87)
16. Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
17. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor
18. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor
19. Chopin: Preludes
20. Verdi: Rigoletto
21. Roussel: Symphony No. 2
22. Copland: Appalachian Spring (complete original ballet)
23. Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 and 2
24. Bartók: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion
25. Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2
26. Rimsky-Korsakov: Opera Suites (Scottish National Orchestra/Järvi) Chandos
27. Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire
28. Smetana: Ma Vlást
29. Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
30. Bizet: Carmen
31. Elgar: In the South
32. Sullivan: The Mikado
33. Dvořák: Symphony No. 8; Cello Concerto (Piatigorsky/Munch/Boston Symphony) RCA
34. Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies
35. Monteverdi: Orfeo
Cancrizans' prophet hath spoken, and I'm free to come out of the closet at last! I was really a Cancrizanian liberal all along; my fundamentalism was only a pose.
Now comes the new challenge to suggest composers for whom a single work will not do to represent their achievement. Two Baroque masters come to mind. Obviously Vivaldi. I had suggested his L'Estro Armonico set of concerti as representative of his best work, but now I might favor the big I Musici box containing all of that ensemble's Vivaldi recordings. The trouble is: that particular box is out of print, having been supplanted by the new complete I Musici box. But that presents an interesting opportunity as well. If that were to be offered to Cancrizans, it might suffice not only for Vivaldi, but also for numerous others, such as Manfredidni, Torelli, Albinioni--choose your pasta. The other Baroque master I had in mind was Heinrich Schütz, for whom the Carus label has done the great favor of issuing his complete works in a box that's now a mandatory acquisition for all Sagittarians. Cancrizans might accept that offering on behalf of the "Prince of Protestant Church Music." I will end by posing a deep theological question. Is Cancrizans eternal, or was he elevated to the status of divinity? If the latter, could he have been a "cranky old German maestro" as a mortal? That would explain everything. Too deep a question for this mere mortal.
alternate title: "if I could choose all works by Scarlatti"
answer: "Yes, I would"
I suggested this, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, a couple of weeks back. All 555 of them! Glad to see that the great god Cancrizans is continuing to give some flexibility. I hope he has some patience - but then, maybe "a thousand years is like a day" to him.
I certainly agree this is the only option for Scarlatti. And I'm very glad he's included.
I wanted to give a link to a Czech site that aims at offering all Scarlatti sonatas for everyone to listen... but I cannot, as comments containing links are probably removed. There are 530 sonatas available by now. Still, you may find it without a link, if you try hard enough...
Another noticeable work is his Stabat Mater for ten voices and continuo. But, of course, his complete sonatas are the choice to make !!
Solid argument--and I hope the old God buys it--though I actually think that the single Horowitz album, with its range of sonatas, from upbeat to melancholic, agitato to soave, gives a pretty representative picture of Scarlatti's keyboard genius generally. And it's certainly one of Horowitz's best recordings, my view being that he's most satisfying as a miniaturist anyway.
No argument there!
Horowitz is the only pianist who can play Scarlatti. Other than him, it’s harpsichord all the way. For me, at any rate.
I would like to suggest Hugo Wolf as a similar case. Yes, he has done a few other things but essentially his work are his songs and it would be impossible to pick only one song.
For me the Horowitz album is still IT.
While listening to works by Scarlatti, I fell down the rabbit hole of listening to transcriptions of his Sonatas for guitar. I loved most the recordings I heard but my favorite was Domenico Scarlatti: Sonaten by Spanish guitar legend Narciso Yepes playing his 10-string guitar. So if we are keeping all the Sonatas can we also keep the guitar transcriptions?
Old Testament! Love it! 😎
It’s a great idea. I just hope Cancrezands doesn’t get upset at this daring suggestion and apparent breach of protocol and start destroying things! I trust It to Dave mollify the tetchy god 😎
Glad to see Scarlatti gets a look in. And if I had to choose just one it would be Sonata in E Major, K.380. Always puts a smile on my face.
That was the first Scarlatti sonata I ever heard, and it was the one that made me fall in love with his music. But if I had to save just one, it would be K.487 in C Major. That glissando at the end slays me every time.
@@valerietaylor9615 First one I ever heard too. Later I actually learnt to play it on piano - well the first section - and not well. But it was a lot of fun to play too. Hadn't some across the K487 before you recommended it. Just found it on YT and it reminded me of a different one I am familiar with, but sorry can't recall number. In my search I also tried out a few of the opening themes to other sonatas on the wikipedia page. Stirred up pleasant memories and made me think it's been too long: I should go back and listen to more of his work.
I used to play K.380. That one is fairly easy, but K. 487 was too hard. I don’t play anymore - got rid of my piano twenty-five years ago, and have never owned a harpsichord, alas. I did have some harpsichord lessons, though.
@@valerietaylor9615 K 380 was the hardest piece I ever learned tbh. Sadly gave up piano too. I wasn't much cop. :)
I have no idea what I would choose for Scarlatti. So I'll just take your word for it here. :)
Czerny would be another one, there isn't a single piece by him that can represent all the woe and infinite torture that he provided the musical world with, you must take it all. If Cancrizans really exists why did he let this guy compose? Was there an original musical sinn at the begining of the XIX Century and from then onwards all piano students shall cry and suffer for 740 opus numbers? Great videos by the way, love your channel!
Indeed, Czerny famously spawned the Cancrizansian theodicy debate.
Very well argued in front of Cancry. Other composers to represent with a whole body of works would be in my opinion
Bull and Byrd with their keyboard music, Duparc, Wolf and Warlock with their songs, Boccherini with his string music and Corelli and Vivaldi with their Concerti Grossi.
But since Cancry started the game, I ask myself, what to do with Rossini. He had three careers: the string music, the operas and the keyboard works. The string works and the one for keyboard must be regarded as unities, and since there are many fine italian operas but no piano music of this kind before Satie, I would like to have the whole Rossini-piano-works saved.
Concerning Satie: His piano works are a complete body, but I would plead rather for „Parade“, because of the typical dadaist background, which works here on a broader canvas.
Dave, point taken!
A similar case could be made on behalf of the works by C P E Bach. I did indeed suggest the double concerto for harpsichord and fortepiano for this series - that piece alone would surely whet the appetite for more in any god or mortal being - but even better would be to decide on the complete keyboard works.
What about the Four Hamburg Symphonies?
Gesualdo might be one--at the very least, you would need to include one entire book of madrigals, the 6th being the likeliest.
Indeed!
Boccherini is one composer whose body of work I think should be considered. Maybe narrow it down to his concertos?
K. 96!!!! The desert island sonata.
Cool specs.
I like to listen to Charles Avison's concertos from the works of Scarlatti....the sonatas, to listen to them online, a whole contract...!....some by Horowitz or Pogorelich fully satisfy me.....by the way the sonata k 87 performed by pogorelich served as ballet music for the grands ballets canadiens
I agree that is the only reasonable choice for Scarlatti besides just picking one sonata (how would one do that anyway?).
It seems that you have not done Rachmaninoff yet. Here's my suggestion: the 2nd Piano Concerto. Granted, we already have a piano concerto (from another Russian for that matter), but that was THE typical medium for Rachmaninoff, since his greatest works are all either for piano, orchestra or both. It's No. 2 because that was the work that turned his career back around and it is the most memorable: from the unique opening to the beautiful melodies (especially the second mvt).
I suppose you could have chosen Tommasini's Good-Humored Ladies but that's better to represent him and not Scarlatti.
Rameau! How can you represent him with either Rameau the clavecinist or the composer of tragedie-lyriques? To choose only one or the other is to misrepresent him.
When a friend was visiting W.C. Fields in the hospital towards the end, he was surprised to find him poring over the Bible. When he asked what he was doing, he drawled, "I'm looking for loopholes."
I'm all for finding loopholes.
No, with Rameau, that isn't true at all. The keyboard music, although excellent as music, is a very minor part of his output.
If I could find a Rameau loophole, I would choose his Suite in E-Minor for harpsichord - it’s got so much variety- and one of his operas. I don’t know which one, though - maybe “Les Fetes d’Hebe”, or else “Dardanus”, or “Les Indes Galantes”? I can’t make up my mind!
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It was disappointing that when Barenboim recorded three Scarlatti sonatas few years ago, he chose the three that every high school pianist plays : C-major, E-major and D-minor. The third of these endlessly played by Argerich plus the Emajor by Horowitz for many decades.
With his high profile DG release, Danny-boy could have introduced the world to a couple of the circa 550 we’d never heard. Lost opportunity
I think it is time for Cancrizans to let it go now!
Best wishes Fred from Kristianstad.
You try and tell him,
Also Sprach Cancrizans. And remember, whatever doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger.