Talk:Domenico Scarlatti

message: What are the criteria for including recordings and performers in this section? Why Fabio Bonizzoni and not, say, Wanda Landowska? There's been a lengthy list of estimable performers and discographies are available elsewhere (hypocritically says an editor who's started and contributed to many lists indeed here, but it seems that this is intended to be a selective list.) Schissel : bowl listen 16:48, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
:I've rewritten into a regular paragraph. This way it's easier to keep the number of musicians down to a selected few (perhaps based on ... well ... "notability" or "famousness" or whatever). Do you like this better? Feel free to add/re-add names. — Pladask 20:38, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
For various reasons, the listing of pianists who have recorded Scarlatti is sparse.  There are some whose Scarlatti recordings are almost legendary:  Dinu Lipatti, Myra Hess, Clara Haskil, Vladimir Horowitz, Ivo Pogorelich, Mikhail Pletnev, John Browning, and Alexis Weissenberg.  Among harpsicordists, the list is even more select.  I suppose it comes down to pointing out the most notable or famous, which is difficult because Scarlatti seems to attract the best artists. Mhare40 —Preceding undated comment added 02:02, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: *When was Horowitz's first recording of a significant number of sonatas? (Gilels and other well-known pianists included them in recorded recitals probably before that, so significant number seems important here.) Was it before Kirkpatrick's of 60 of them (who also wrote an important book way back in 1953...), say? ELSchissel (talk) 17:47, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Recordings of the Sonatas

message: Lots of excellent information and a nice read; very satisfying to this Scarlatti fan (who didn't know all the trivia). I value Scarlatti's "outsider" status in the classical music canon and am pleased to see that reflected here.
I have some questions: how good a keyboardist was Princess Barbara? Her own entry says she "had a fine education and loved music," but isn't more specific. Were the famous "Essercizi" (Sonatas) written for her use, as piano students are traditionally told, or do they more accurately reflect Scarlatti's own virtuosic abilities? The origins of the "Essercizi" are shrouded in myth, at least for me. Does anyone have any better sources? Sandover 18:45, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I was planning to start an article on them ... I'll push it closer to the top of my queue! — Stumps 20:11, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: good article

message: Scarlatti was most prolific and creative beginning in his 50's, which is highly unusual for anyone, let alone a composer or artist. I wonder if this article can mention that somehow. Great article by the way. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.229.199.203 (talk) 20:09, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Scarlatti's Age

message: I very much doubt Domenico Scarlatti is officially identified as a "poopy-head", I suggest this for editing.
:It was missed vandalism, but it's fixed now--thanks for noticing it.  Antandrus  (talk) 15:20, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki-ffiti

message: I hadn't looked at this page for a while, and on coming back I was very suspicious of the image at the top.  I removed :Image:DScarlatti.jpg (and moved the other one up) because it looks modern to me.  Does anyone else share my doubts?  I shall be pleased if someone can show that it is indeed a contemporary portrait.  --RobertG ♬ talk 22:01, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image 

message: Where could I find "the crux" marked in a score of Scarlatti's sonata? It is impossible to understand what is it without example. --A1 (talk) 20:33, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the description in the article is quite clear. Based on that description, I looked at the score of a sonata I picked at random (Kk. 103), and the situation in bars 24ff seems to fit the description. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 01:55, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "the crux" 

message: Moving this meta-comment out of the article to the talk page ():  "(check sources, The Ralph Kirkpatrick edition is grouped into pairs, while the Longo edition is chronological)" (by 74.118.178.2).  Antandrus  (talk) 20:40, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment on Longo vs Kirkpatrick numberings

message: It would be nice someone would mention the fact that the only harpsichord recording of all 555 sonatas are by Scott Ross. (or at least the first I think)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C5:2B05:EA00:6835:21A4:E8AB:90E3 (talk) 20:56, 15 August 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps earliest but probably not the only, there's a Nimbus Records one that when finished may contain sonatas not among the "555" (since there have been changes in the catalog) . Actually a search on Worldcat for Scarlatti complete reveals completes in progress or already-finished on Nimbus, Stradivarius (different harpsichordists), Naxos, etc. Some of them may take into account scholarly conjecture that some of the works were originally not for harpsichord but, say, in some cases for organ or for violin and continuo, so wouldn't be all-harpsichord sets anyway. Ah. Yes-- in the Brilliant Classics set volume 2: "Sonatas K. 81 and 88-91 for violin and basso continuo.", so a violinist and continuo player are listed as well as a harpsichord player for that volume. Nimbus volume 7 is also continuo sonatas. ELSchissel (talk) 17:53, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

text: There's also a set by harpsichordist Luciano Sgrizzi from the early 1980s that - if it was finished - may have predated Scott Ross' 1988 set? (Also on the label Erato, interestingly. Maybe he didn't finish it and they called in Ross instead? I wonder what's up with that...) ELSchissel (talk) 18:02, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scott Ross 

message: The article's lead sentence says flatly that Scarlatti was an Italian composer, but it seems odd: he was Italian-born but lived most of his adult life in Iberia, his music is soaked in Spanish idioms, he eventually married a Spaniard, and his family certainly became Spanish. I hesitate to alter a lead sentence, however.
I'm also surprised to see that Granados is mentioned only in a long list of composers influenced by Scarlatti. There's nothing about his transcriptions, which I believe led to a wider familiarity of 20th and 21st century listeners with Scarlatti's music. Again I hesitate to edit, since I'm far from an expert. Ishboyfay (talk) 05:16, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Italian? 

message: This article makes it sound as though Domenico Scarlatti only composed sonatas.  Domenico Scarlatti composed more than just harpsichord sonatas; for instance, his Stabat Mater is mentioned in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabat_Mater, or more complete information about his Stabat Mater can be found at https://imslp.org/wiki/Stabat_Mater_(Scarlatti%2C_Domenico).  A broader discussion of D.Scarlatti's musical contributions would be useful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.55.210.101 (talk) 20:15, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: *Not to mention that a number of his sonatas that are usually played as harpsichord sonatas may not have been conceived for the instrument, but possibly e.g. for violin and keyboard, or perhaps for organ, etc. (but I think that is covered in the article now.) ELSchissel (talk) 22:38, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  More than harpsichord sonatas 

message: Especially the section about whom Scarlatti has influenced is not accurate: Had had little to no direct influence on Mozart, Beethoven etc. Mozart has never seen or played a sonata of Scarlatti.
Also it is not evident why a concurrent harpsichordist like Jan-Peter Belder is put in the same section as renown composers? Without diminishing the importance of Belder as instrumentalist, he is not comparable to composers like Bartok, Beethoven etc. This is inaccurate and diminishes the credibility of the article. Compare the article on Scarlatti by Kirkpatrick on Britannica. Spetkoff (talk) 07:24, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  There are sections which are not accurate