Horowitz Plays Scarlatti
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Composer: Domenico ScarlattiPerformer: Vladimir Horowitz
Edition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-09-30
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Sonata In D Major, K 33 (L 424)
- Sonata In A Minor, K 54 (L 241)
- Sonata In F Major, K 525 (L 188)
- Sonata In F Minor, K 466 (L 118)
- Sonata In G Major, K 146 (L 349)
- Sonata In D Major, K 96 (L 465)
- Sonata In E Major, K 162 (L21)
- Sonata In E-Flat Major, K 474 (L 203)
- Sonata In E Minor, K 198 (L 22)
- Sonata In D Major, K.491 (L.164)
- Sonata In F Minor, K 481 (L 187)
- Sonata In A Major, K 39 (L 391)
- Sonata In G Major, K 547 (L S28)
- Sonata In B Minor, K 197 (L 147)
- Sonata In F-Sharp Minor, K 25 (L 481)
- Sonata In D Minor, K52 (L 267)
- Sonata In G Major, K201 (L 129)
- Sonata In C Minor, K 303 (L9)
- Sonata In F-Sharp Major, K 319 (L 35)
- Sonata In G Major, K 303 (L 9)
Music reviews of Horowitz Plays Scarlatti
Music Review: Wish I could find Scarlatti in all this
Rating: 2 Stars
It would be funny, if it wasn't so sad.
We have learnt these days to respect composers' scores to the point of arguing over single notes in some of their works (e.g. the Hammerklavier Sonata); and we would consider it outrageous if not downright criminal if a guitarist were to issue a recording of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto. This is falsification of the spirit of the music!
But people who play, and those who buy, recordings of Scarlatti don't seem to have realised that they are offending against the spirit of his music in precisely the same way.
They evince no respect for the composer whatever.
I have long ago stopped being disgusted; but reading all these uninformed reviews about Horowitz's album is really irksome. Every now and then someone should stand up for this constantly maltreated composer and put these huge performing egos in their place.
Scarlatti was, like Chopin or Liszt, an EXPLORER of the resources of the harpsichord. He spent all his years on the Iberian peninsula in this mission of devotion both to the instrument and his brilliant royal pupil. These sonatas are not for KEYBOARD - meaning, they're not for organ, piano or glockenspiel, but for the HARPSICHORD. How easy to forget that the harpsichord strings are plucked, not hammered as on a modern piano. This means that its resources demand a totally different approach to performance - an approach impossible on a hammered instrument.
In short, playing Scarlatti on an instrument other than the one he wrote for is to show utter disdain for his genius in writing for it.
Horowitz goes some way towards ameliorating the deficiency of his instrument by his manner of playing these works. In the process, he makes an anaemic instrument of the piano. But it is merely a vain attempt to circumvent the piano's sonorous power, its great resonance and the fact that it has more than double the number of strings. It still doesn't sound like a harpsichord; and in addition he cannot reproduce the harpsichord-specific figurations that are designed (in practically every one of these sonatas) with the sound of the instrument in the composer's ear. So on both counts this recording is an exercise is sheer vanity: The pianist trying to do what is not possible on a piano, and in the attempt falsifying the spirit of the music.
I know that Horowitz worshippers are going to read this and fume about it.
My reply, in advance, is this: we had enough and more than enough hero worship in the music business. To hero worship dead pianists as if they were great geniuses (like Scarlatti) is even worse.
But I admit that Horowitz does some spirited things here. Purely from the point of view of pianism, this is worth 5 points.
But the interpretations are all cockeyed, as they have to be, seeing that it's the wrong instrument. So at least 1 point needs to be deducted for the instrument, and at least another 1 for conveying a false image of the music of Scarlatti. A final 1 point comes off for the atrocious sound technique of some of the tracks.
In sum: What you get on this album is Horowitz, not Scarlatti.
Only the notes were written by Scarlatti.
The "music" (whichever way you define what strikes your ears) is mostly by Horowitz.
(And I do hope you'll all give an uproarious welcome to the first harpsichordist to issue a complete recording of Chopin!)
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