Fritz Novotny, The Genius of Domenico Scarlatti (video), Rene Izquierdo, Fou Ts'ong

21 11 2020 

Fritz Novotny (1940-2019), mein großer Lehrmeister in Bezug auf Spiritualität im Jazz / frei improvisierter Musik, wäre heute 80 Jahre alt geworden. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0GywcL7Ovw 

Martha Argerich, Piano spielt die Sonata in D minor K141 highspeed 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjghYFgt8Zk&feature=emb_logo 

Claire Wachter presents: 

The Genius of Domenico Scarlatti 

Part 1 Claire Wachter says, in this video we introduce the “Scarlatti effect” – the unique characteristics that identify his music. We discuss the Phrygian mode, repeated sound-patterns and color and register in K.27; the crush chord used as sound-effect in the funeral dirge in K.8; and the spirit and sound of Spain in the fast repeated notes and flamenco-style dance energy in K.141. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K0fxivBhr0&t=42s 

Part 2 In this video we identify Domenico Scarlatti as the first great Spanish keyboard composer. We discuss the ornaments, the crying Spanish lament, percussive syncopations and the flamenco contest in K.492; the psychological portrait of the duality of the Spanish temperament, the freedom of timing in Scarlatti’s scale gestures and the powerful dissonance of the crush chords in K.490 and in K.212 we go to a bullfight! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv4E8IHaayY 

Part 3 In this video we hear how Scarlatti’s expressive use of the keyboard strongly anticipates Romanticism. We discuss the meaning of cantabile in Scarlatti’s keyboard music, Scarlatti’s rubato and the need for forward motion in the development section in K.208; physical and rhythmic gestures, chords used for pure harmony and expression, and trills as color and sound-effect in K.9; the augmented sixth chord and the meaning of arbitri in K. 544 and unprepared modulations, tonal ambiguity and enharmonic chord progressions in K.426. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTGvSAU6W3U 

Part 4 In this video we travel with Scarlatti and the royal entourage to the different Spanish palaces in a seasonal cycle. We experience the tranquility of Aranjuez and we hear a musical portrait of melancholy as well as soothing sounds that give relief from care in K.132. We enjoy the powerful polychords that suggest royal pageantry and the summer festivities at Aranjuez that include a fantastic display of pyrotechnics in K.487. We discover the meaning of “spiritoso” at La Granja, where we breathe the fresh mountain air, stroll in the magnificent gardens and marvel at the spectacular fountains that inspired the first musical Impressionism for keyboard in K.454. We also discover why “It’s good to be the Queen.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvgSABB1JE4 

Part 5 In this video we visit the vast and depressing Escorial and learn of the untimely death of Scarlatti’s beautiful young wife Maria Gentili. We discover the true meaning of Scarlatti’s unique direction “mano sola” and we are present at the funeral procession in K.126. We hear Maria’s “theme,” Scarlatti’s mastery of counterpoint, his use of sonority for expression and music that suggests the “sound of a broken heart” in K.87. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBezn64_Itk 

Part 6 In this video we consider the many factors that have kept Scarlatti’s life shrouded in mystery – how Scarlatti during his lifetime was overshadowed by his father Alessandro in Italy and by the singer Farinelli at the Spanish court. We also consider the strange fact that all of Scarlatti’s manuscripts seem to have disappeared. We confront the Scarlatti Prejudice with a fascinating “comparison” of Scarlatti and Bach and discuss the completely different conceptions of music and musical rules of these two great geniuses. Finally, we reveal the only rule that really mattered to Scarlatti and conclude this video with thoughts about music in Scarlatti’s own words. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IG_jUbLyjA 

Als ambient music für den Samstag Nachmittag: 5 Stunden Scarlatti Musik: Scarlatti Sonatas played on 5 different instruments 95 Sonaten gespielt von Pieter-Jan Belder - Cembalo, Michelangelo Carbonara - Piano, Nicola Reniero - Orgel, Luigi Attademo - Gitarre, Artemandoline – Mandoline (+ Gitarre, Viola das Gamba, Cembalo) 

Playlist auf Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/5j01EEbZbCgAuiFSGxuiNq?si=8cHigbT2Qdiqh2Uc1w6kOQ 

listen @ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Nz_NxRrxsg 

Der Abend klingt mit der Sonate K 1* vom Gitarristen Rene Izquierdo gespielt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYCbbnFbevY 

und der Sonate in C-Dur K 95, am Klavier gespielt von Fou Ts'ong aus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w46qJL4zs4c 

Morgen werde ich mir seine CD „Scarlatti - 32 Sonatas“ (Meridian Records CDE 84485, 2003) anhören.  

*) bemerkenswert ist auch die Interpretation vom Gitarristen Juan M. García Fernández https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58yum0kv0LU

Im DIARIUM steht: im schaufenster neue x-mas deko / shop closed