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Saturday, November 17, 2018

Domenico Scarlatti - Sonatas Vol. 2 (Angela Hewitt)


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Composer: Domenico Scarlatti
  1. Sonata in D major, Kk491
  2. Sonata in D major, Kk492
  3. Sonata in G major, Kk146
  4. Sonata in B minor, Kk377
  5. Sonata in A major, Kk24
  6. Sonata in E major, Kk206
  7. Sonata in A major, Kk428
  8. Sonata in A major, Kk429
  9. Sonata in G major 'Capriccio', Kk63
  10. Sonata in D minor 'Gavota', Kk64
  11. Sonata in G minor, Kk426
  12. Sonata in G major, Kk547
  13. Sonata in E flat major, Kk474
  14. Sonata in C minor, Kk58
  15. Sonata in C major, Kk513
  16. Sonata in F major, Kk82
  17. Sonata in F minor, Kk481

Angela Hewitt, piano
Date: 2017
Label: Hyperion
https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68184

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Review

For her second Scarlatti release, Angela Hewitt partitions 17 sonatas into five distinctly contrasted but well-integrated sub-groups, although an overall game plan seems to govern the recital as a whole; it begins majestically and concludes in quiet desolation.

The opening D major Sonata, Kk491, makes an almost orchestral impact, not through loudness but on account of Hewitt’s variegated articulations and voicings. It leads into the familiar D major, Kk492, which stands out for vividly characterised details, such as unusually heightened scales. Hewitt’s well-oiled trills and subtle timing make the G major Kk146 sound faster than it actually is, while the A major Kk24’s repeated-note phrases and rapid scales might be described as contained turbulence.

Hewitt’s sensitive voice-leading and harmonic pointing throughout the E major, Kk206, justifies her full observation of the repeats (it lasts nine and a half minutes), yet the shorter A major Sonatas, Kk428 and Kk429, are no less meticulously considered. The G major ‘Capriccio’ and D minor ‘Gavota’ embody like-minded swagger in Hewitt’s hands. In her typically insightful booklet notes, Hewitt rightly claims that the austere G minor Kk426’s pauses are as expressive as its notes, as the pianist’s performance bears out. That said, Naxos’s Gerda Struhal obtains more lilt and animation through her occasional staccato articulation of the bass line.

Also notice Hewitt’s scrupulously matched trills in the E flat, Kk474, the fluid dignity she brings to the ricercare-like C minor, Kk458, and her awesomely controlled diminuendos in the F major Kk382’s theme statements. And in contrast to Alexis Weissenberg’s courtly grace, the darker deliberation of Hewitt’s F minor, Kk481, truly reveals the music’s inward cry. In short, this release attests to Hewitt’s deep affinity for Scarlatti, her exemplary musicianship and her gifts as a programme-builder.

-- Jed Distler, Gramophone

More reviews:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2017/Nov/Scarlatti_Hewitt_v2_CDA68184.htm
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/oct/01/scarlatti-sonatas-vol-2-cd-review-angela-hewitt-hyperion
https://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/reviews/scarlatti-keyboard-sonatas-volume-2-angela-hewitt/
https://www.allmusic.com/album/domenico-scarlatti-sonatas-vol-2-mw0003098515
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Domenico Scarlatti (Naples, 26 October 1685 – Madrid, 23 July 1757) was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He is classified primarily as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style and he was one of the few Baroque composers to transition into the classical period. Like his renowned father Alessandro Scarlatti, he composed in a variety of musical forms, operas, cantatas and symphonias. Today he is known mainly for his 555 single movements keyboard sonatas.

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Angela Hewitt (born July 26, 1958 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is a British/Canadian classical pianist. Hewitt has performed around the world in recital and as soloist with orchestra. She is most well known for her Bach interpretations, especially her cycle of Bach recordings covering all the major keyboard works of J.S. Bach. Her discography also includes works by Couperin, Rameau, Messiaen, Chabrier, Ravel, Schumann, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy and Fauré. In recent years, she records using her own piano, a Fazioli F308 grand. Hewitt received Gramophone Artist of the Year award in 2006.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Hewitt
http://www.angelahewitt.com/

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