Works For Luth - Guitar Transcriptions - 12 Sonatas

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Two Guitars for Scarlatti: Contrasts and Colors!Scarlatti's sonatas are among the most original compositions of the Baroque era: they are full of rhythmic and harmonic discoveries, contrasts, and colors. Matteo Mela and Lorenzo Micheli take on this exceptional body of work and perform, on two guitars, twelve of his 555 sonatas. Scarlatti was well acquainted with the instrument, which he encountered in Spain and Italy, and which subtly permeates his keyboard compositions. By returning his music to one of its most obvious and frequent sources of inspiration, the two performers highlight the eloquence and inexhaustible invention of these rhapsodic miniatures, masterpieces of their composer's colorist art.