★★★ Playlist with more sonatas by Scarlatti: ruclips.net/video/lYAsSceNGrE/видео.html ★★★ The Danish-American comedian, conductor, and pianist Victor Borge achieved great popularity combining piano music with comedy. You can check out my playlist with Victor Borge videos here: ruclips.net/video/6mrbPqUUn_g/видео.html
Resembles its mate K 141, in D minor: strong bass chords emulating guitars; repeated notes changing fingers; cross-hand passages and a strong Spanish flavor.
One can speculate this sonata was written in Scarlatti’s early times in Spain, when the Spanish court was established in Seville. Strong flamenco flavor.
It's worth viewing this performance both with Stigekalder's beautifully prepared score where where can marvel at the smashing 11-note clusters in the second half, and with the live video of the same performance here -- ruclips.net/video/oiebZLfvIhA/видео.html -- where we can watch Irena Koblar going through the overwhelming experience of playing it. She manages to make it sound quite easy -- which it isn't -- and highly emotional -- which it certainly is. Her performance is the best I have heard of this very demanding sonata. This sonata forms a pair with K120, which is not really a coherent piece of music but an exercise in showing off technique, something that the crazily talented Scarlatti occasionally couldn't resist. But K119 stays within the bounds (if only just) of a real piece of music giving us the flavour of 18th century flamenco.
★★★ Playlist with more sonatas by Scarlatti: ruclips.net/video/lYAsSceNGrE/видео.html
★★★ The Danish-American comedian, conductor, and pianist Victor Borge achieved great popularity combining piano music with comedy. You can check out my playlist with Victor Borge videos here: ruclips.net/video/6mrbPqUUn_g/видео.html
0:20 is a surprisingly catchy theme
it reminds me of music from yoshi's island
Resembles its mate K 141, in D minor: strong bass chords emulating guitars; repeated notes changing fingers; cross-hand passages and a strong Spanish flavor.
One can speculate this sonata was written in Scarlatti’s early times in Spain, when the Spanish court was established in Seville. Strong flamenco flavor.
He is very ahead of his time nevertheless
Atomic Scarlatti!!
My favourite work❤
It's worth viewing this performance both with Stigekalder's beautifully prepared score where where can marvel at the smashing 11-note clusters in the second half, and with the live video of the same performance here --
ruclips.net/video/oiebZLfvIhA/видео.html
-- where we can watch Irena Koblar going through the overwhelming experience of playing it. She manages to make it sound quite easy -- which it isn't -- and highly emotional -- which it certainly is. Her performance is the best I have heard of this very demanding sonata.
This sonata forms a pair with K120, which is not really a coherent piece of music but an exercise in showing off technique, something that the crazily talented Scarlatti occasionally couldn't resist. But K119 stays within the bounds (if only just) of a real piece of music giving us the flavour of 18th century flamenco.