Scarlatti: Sonaten
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Free Music Review: Pogo Sticks it.
Hit: 5 Stars
Sorry about that pun above. Really though, this was my introduction to Pogorelich. I am not one of those dweebs that doesn't want a performer to make artistic inferences that are outside the bounds of the composers written notes, therefore I appreciate Ivo. I think this is the main reason he is such a polarizing character. I have heard absolutely no one that is critical of his work, say he is unskilled or not technically proficient. He has the finger strength to tear phone books in half and tremendous dynamic and tonal control. However it is his interpretations of works that seems to drive previous said dweeb crazy. I often find he sees an alternate layer or possibility within the compositions framework and exposes it to the horror of archival music skeletons everywhere. Its not like hes playing different notes for crying out loud! Its often just simple stuff like playing a little more staccato to emphasis the rhythm or something. It's amazing that a genre that has as many so called sophisticated listeners just ends up being filled with cavemen that are afraid of fire. At any rate enough about cavemen, this album is really wonderful if you are interested in virtuosity and genius interpretation, but not so wonderful if you want a Vladimir Horowitz stuffy snooze fest. Free Music Review: Wonderful and energetic
Hit: 5 Stars
Domenico Scarlatti and Ivo Pogorelich share much in common, even to the kind of upbringing they had. Both lived in a Mediterranean coastal community that was 'off the beaten path', as it were. Scarlatti was from Naples (at a time when it was not a major city), and Pogorelich is from Dubrovnik along the Croatian coasts. Thus it might seem like a natural to have the pairing of Pogorelich playing these pieces by Scarlatti.
Domenico Scarlatti was son of Alessandro Scarlatti, also a noted Baroque composer. Domenico was composer of well over 500 sonatas, most of which were not published in his lifetime. His career was spent largely in Portugal and Spain, a bit far from the centre of gravity of the Baroque era, and so he is often overlooked; his father's compositions are better known in many ways, also, which adds to his being overshadowed. However, there is a unique power and vitality to the composition of Domenico, which made his music very popular. However, according to one commentator, ' The sonatas' technical difficulties have often caused them to be regarded unjustly as mere studies in virtuosity, and modern pianoforte technique owes much to their influence. They display a harmonic audacity, and adventurous use of modulation (changing from one key to another), a freshness and variety of invention and a vigorous intellectuality in thematic and structural terms which belies their "popular" tone and their apparently careless appearance on the page.'
Ivo Pogorelich is a popular musician in the musical sense as well as in the success of his career. He is also very skilled in interpreting the kind of technical requirements as well as the spirit of the compositions of a composer like Scarlatti. Pogorelich was educated in Moscow, and won many competitions, but perhaps his elimination in the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw made him most famous (one judge quit in protest that he was eliminated in the third round). Pogorelich continues to work on behalf of music education, being named a UNESCO ambassador of goodwill for musical enterprises.
Pogorelich's playing on this disc is a wonderful performance, technically proficient and energetic in expression.
Free Music Review: Nice!
Hit: 1 Stars
The greatest moment of all, was K380 and the excellent ritenuti he did right before he starts! That is exactly what the style of Scarlatti is! Good job, and great musical understanding! oh do I love those people!!!!!! (actually it was BAD, very bad)Free Music Review: Very fine Scarlatti
Hit: 5 Stars
Ivo Pogorelich's Scarlatti CD is very fine. He has an extremely light touch in this music, very reminiscent of Horowitz (Horowitz being the standard for Scarlatti on piano against whom all others are measured).
His program combines well and less known Scarlatti sonatas, with a slight emphasis on the earlier works.
One of the best all Scarlatti piano sonata CDs I know, along with Horowitz (Sony), Pletnev (Virgin), Maria Tipo (EMI Classics), and Andjaparidze (Naxos).
Very good sound.
Free Music Review: Not bad for a human
Hit: 5 Stars
Pogorelich really exploits the loud-soft and gradations between them in this very idiomatic piano recording. The selection is a little limited--maybe too many from the Essercizi? But he plays them so well! Everyone does K 1, but Pogorelich makes it sound like music (unlike Tomsic or Pletnev). K 8 sounds like a tragic funeral march for 3-legged mortally wounded--not a very attractive description, but I mean he gets that gothic horror. And K 450 is perfect--no labor at all to the difficult trills.
I do complain a little of the repetitions that are mostly exact.
A little variation would be nice. Still, this is the album I'd be most likely to play for a Scarlatti virgin in hopes of seduction!