Scarlatti: Sonatas for Harpsichord, Vol. 2 [Import]

Domenico Scarlatti (Composer), Luc Beausejour (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Luc Beausejour
• Composer: Domenico Scarlatti
• Audio CD (April 5, 2007)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Analekta
• ASIN: B00008ISTR
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #521,199 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sonate En Sol Majeur/ G Major K. 2

2. Sonate En La Majeur/ A Major K. 322

3. Sonate En La Majeur/ A Major K 323

4. Sonate En Mi Majeur/ E Major K. 380

5. Sonate En La Majeur/ A Major K. 113

6. Sonate En Fa Mineur/ F Minor K. 69

7. Sonate En Do Majeur/ C Major K. 308

8. Sonate En Do Majeur/ C Major K. 132

9. Sonate En Do Majeur/ C Major K. 133

10. Sonate En Mi Bemol Majeur/ E Flat Major K. 474

11. Sonate En Sol Mineur/ G Minor K. 30

12. Sonate En Re Majeur/ D Major K. 33

13. Sonate En Re Majeur/ D Major K. 335

14. Sonate En Re Major/ D Major K.336

15. Sonate En Re Mineur/ D Minor K. 34

16. Sonate En Re Mineur/ D Minor K. 9

17. Sonate Fen Re Minuer/ D Minor 5. 517

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A First-Rate Scarlatti Program by a First-Rate Performer, June 24, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Scarlatti: Sonatas for Harpsichord, Vol. 2 (Audio CD)

Since recitals--and excellent ones, for that matter--of the sonatas of Dominico Scarlatti are hardly rare, a new CD has to combine first-rate programming with high performance values to get noticed. Well, this CD got my attention. Canadian Luc Beausejour is a rock-solid harpsichordist who, as we'd expect, makes easy work of Scarlatti's more virtuoso passages, but also injects grandeur and depth of feeling into works such as my favorite sonata, K. 380. This unforgettably grand work was supposed to have been suggested to Scarlatti by a procession of cavalry, and you can indeed hear the hooves striking fire on the cobbles. Beausejour gives this work as dignified a reading as he gives a firey one to the febrile sonata K. 113 that follows it on the CD.

The harpsichordist starts his recital with two of Scarlatti's most popular, K. 2 and K. 322, and includes others of Scarlatti's greatest hits, such as K. 435, so this recital has the virtue of showcasing some of the most recognizable and treasurable of the composer's 555(!) sonatas. But then Beausejour ends his recital with the toccata-like sonata K. 517 that if it doesn't figure on most recitals, should. But only if the performer can bring Beausejour's aplomb to the proceedings.

If I have any regrets about this CD, you'll probably think it's a niggling one: I wish Beausejour had substituted two other sonatas for the long-winded and undistinguished K. 132. That sonata's almost eight minutes length could have yielded to two shorter and more piquant works of the master. But if that's my chief objection, I must really dig this CD. And I do.

Very natural, nicely resonant sound to boot.