SCARLATTI: SONATA K1/L366
Scarlatti tried to speak a new language, compared to everything around or within him. All the Sonatas presented here reflect different aspects of this innovative and markedly individual language; one characterized by his perfect handling of the art of modulation and multifarious rhythmic explorations, as well as a wealth of thematic invention, orchestral devices and instrumental allusions – and, above all, by an intentional abandonment of the stylized courtly dances of the baroque suite and the French-style influences of his time.
‘REINVENTING GUITAR’ EDITIONS – COLLECTION: Baroque – CATALOGUE Nr: RGBC 03
This is Smaro Gregoriadou’s arrangement of Sonata K1/L366 by Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757).
Arranged for standard guitar tuning and/or for every available tuning of Kertsopoulos Aesthetics. Available in printed and digital versions.
Printed in Greece, first published in 2024. Copyright ©2024 by Smaro Gregoriadou & ‘REINVENTING GUITAR’ EDITIONS
Included in Smaro’s CD album: Reinventing guitar Vol. 2 by DELOS. Interpreted on a double-course pedal guitar of Kertsopoulos Aesthetics.
Sonata in D minor, K1/L366 belongs to the aforementioned set of thirty sonatas, Essercizi per gravicembalo (London, 1738): the only pieces whose publication was supervised by Scarlatti himself[1]. Sonata K1 is a graceful and energetic toccata at a brisk pace, probably dating from the second or third decade of the 18th century.
[1] The musicologist and harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick, whose 1950s critical edition of the 555 Sonatas is generally considered the most authoritative, put Essercizi at the beginning of his catalogue, based on the chronological sequence of the sources. Nevertheless, it is likely that Scarlatti had chosen those thirty pieces amongst many other compositions whose existence was to be revealed only at a later date.