Scarlatti and Me

[jon-nyc]

I've mentioned before that I started going through the Scarlatti sonatas as daily sight reading exercise.

I started in early 2018. As of today, I'm done. All 562.

562 you ask?

I did the 545 catalogued by Longo, added the 10 more that Kilpatrick found (getting to 555), played the one discovered in the Morgan Library ('Cary 703'), and the 6 recently found in the Cathedral of Zaragosa by Yañez.

[Rainman]

Nice, Jon.

Next step: memorization

Final: Jon performs The Ring all Scarlatti sonatas from memory.

[George K]

@Rainman said in Scarlatti and Me:

Nice, Jon.

Next step: memorization

Final: Jon performs The Ring all Scarlatti sonatas from memory.

I was going to make some kind of smart-assed comment along those lines, but, @Rainman , yours is better, by far, than anything I could have come up with.

Bravo!

[Klaus]

What’s your favorite one?

[SD Tav]

@jon-nyc Will you post the audio?

[SD Tav]

@jon-nyc Know this guy? Carlo Grante I bought a couple of the volumes. Nice playing.

[jon-nyc]

@Klaus said in Scarlatti and Me:

What’s your favorite one?

I still like k87 and k54. But those were my favorite before all this.

[jon-nyc]

@SD-Tav said in Scarlatti and Me:

@jon-nyc Know this guy? Carlo Grante I bought a couple of the volumes. Nice playing.

Yes I do. I have his Godowsky-Chopin etudes. Though you have to listen to them before you’ve heard Hamelin play them.

[jon-nyc]

@Rainman said in Scarlatti and Me:

Nice, Jon.

Next step: memorization

Once at the end of a calendar year there was a thread at PW asking people what their musical plans were for the new year. I said “finish memorizing the Scarlatti sonatas”.

[SD Tav]

@jon-nyc I still love Horowitz Plays Scarlatti (RCA). I always thought his style was unparalleled.

[jon-nyc]

I have the CD.

[SD Tav]

@jon-nyc Suggestion for a new project: read through all of the Haydn Sonatas. Many little-known gems. Over 50 to survey!

[George K]

@SD-Tav said in Scarlatti and Me:

@jon-nyc Suggestion for a new project: read through all of the Haydn Sonatas. Many little-known gems. Over 50 to survey!

Yes! THey're good sight-reading material, indeed, if taken slowly.

So are the slow movements from the Mozart sonatas, but @jon-nyc won't go there, amirite?

[taiwan_girl]

@jon-nyc That is awesome that you did that.

Did you notice improvement in your playing/site reading after this?

[jon-nyc]

Oh yeah. Sight reading is much better though I still have a long way to go.

[Rainman]

@jon-nyc said in Scarlatti and Me:

Oh yeah. Sight reading is much better though I still have a long way to go.

Jon, it really is great you tackled all the Scarlatti.
But staying true to form, I'll continue to help:

If you ever do perform them, I hope you explain who Kilpatrick was. I've never heard of him. Maybe just go by "Ralph K."(?)

[SD Tav]

@jon-nyc I stumbled on this documentary. Worth watching

Link to video

[jon-nyc]

Thanks I’ll check it out

[George K]

Oh, by the way, shouldn't it be "Scarlatti and I?"

(asking for Aqua)

[Horace]

that pianist must be the most accomplished hipster ever.