Fandango by Domenico Scarlatti. Scholars are not 100% this is by Scarlatti, but it is a fantastic work none the less. Recorded in 2023 on a 1999 Flemish single built by John D. Lyon
When Scarlatti competed against Handle...the consensus was that Scarlatti won on the Harpsichord...but Handle won the Organ which was considered the king of the instruments at the time...
@@Alix777. Is that so? It doesn't sound particularly like Scarlatti. Or anyone you've heard of really. Perhaps Boccherini could have come up with it, if he'd gone in for keyboard music and was feeling particularly Spanish.
I first heard Scarlatti on the harpsichord over 50 years ago, with the great Ralph Kirkpatrick playing his onw instrument. The music still fascinates all these years later. If the authorship of this piece is in question, you might check the works of the Padre Antonio Soler. They both represent a great achool of Spanish keyboard music.
The contrast between the Zen calm of the playing and the often thrilling wildness of the music is surely one the greatest aspects of this repertoire? Superb.
Fantastic! Your right hand dances on the keyboard with those octaves! Made me want to grab some castanets (sp?) and learn to dance the fandango. Thank you!
I don’t think it is. This is one of those spurious pieces that used his name on the title page so is attributed to him but may not be by him at all. We still never know but I have my doubts too
I don’t believe it has a K# as this piece is doubted it is actually by Scarlatti. Back in the day some people would put a famous composers name on the cover page to get their worked published. I have my doubts too.
I appreciate you're conscious on harpsichord's technique it's totally different. A common mistake in new performancers is they think piano technique and harpsichord one is interchangeable!!! 🤯 even playing pipe organ. Terrible mistake. Results of that misconception is an incorrect sound. Keyboards could be look like similar, but each instrument (piano, harpsichord, pipe organ) are totally different organologically, so techniques too.
Para su información: “El fandango flamenco es uno de los cantes con baile introducido más antiguos y su parentesco se legitima con las zambras arábigo-andaluzas y las jarchas mozárabes. Se dice que el fandango se difundió durante varios siglos por toda la geografía española, cobrando el aire de cada región. El fandango morisco antes de su fundición flamenca ya se había transformado en jotas, alboradas, muñeiras, boleros o malhaos. Gran parte de la música flamenca se forjó como una evolución de las músicas de baile que imperaban por los gustos de la gente en los siglos que preceden al siglo XIX. Las escuelas de boleros y de seguidilla están implantadas por todo el territorio español, con lo que el auge del flamenco se dio en todas las comarcas de Andalucía. Los fandangos no solo se conocen en Andalucía, ya que existen en diferentes lugares fuera de España. En el flamenco se le conoce como fandango aflamencado, siendo su origen una mezcla de las culturas árabes y portuguesas.”
