Scarlatti/ Grante - Complte Keyboard Sonatas 1

2010 six CD set. Scarlatti's 555 keyboard sonatas are single movements, mostly in, and are almost all intended for the harpsichord. Some of them display harmonic audacity in their use of discords, and also unconventional modulations to remote keys. Essercizi per gravicembalo, 1-30 (1738-39); Parma Books 1 (1751 1752) & 2 (1752). Carlo Grante, playing the Bösendorfer Imperial piano. A co-production with Bösendorfer, Vienna. With a biography of the composer by Eva Badura-Skoda and a long essay on the music by Carlo Grante.