Les Recreations: Sonate a Quattro - COMPACT DISCS

Les Recreations: Sonate a Quattro - COMPACT DISCS

Les Recreations SKU: 41412282
Price
Save
/
Title:

Sonate a Quattro

Artist:

Les Recreations

Label:

Ricercar

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

5400439004221

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2021-04-09

Number of Discs:

1

Alessandro Scarlatti's Sonate a quattro were published in 1725, the year of his death. With their specific marking 'senza cembalo' (without harpsichord), these compositions for two violins, viola and cello appear to be, in a sense, the first string quartets in the modern sense of the term. The program is completed by a few sonatas by his brother Francesco, the 'London Scarlatti', and Alessandro's son Domenico, who had so thoroughly absorbed the contrapuntal tradition instilled in him by his father that some of his sonatas can also be played in quartet formation.

Found in

More from Les Recreations
Recently viewed