Recently, Marchionda filled the Jacqueline Du Pré concert hall in Oxford with a programme inspired by Domenico Scarlatti, which set the scene with a Spanish atmosphere, followed with music by Joaquin Rodrigo, Manuel de Falla and finishing with the Sonata by Antonio José...

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Swapping Strings

From 1738 onward, the Italian Domenico Scarlatti, while living in Spain, composed more than five hundred sonatas for harpsichord that are flavored by Iberian temperament. That these works can also very well be performed on the modern guitar has been shown by the American guitarist and Spanish resident Stephen Marchionda, who has now recorded these works for the first time on a Super Audio CD.

Scarlatti wrote his sonatas mainly as practice pieces for his pupil Queen Maria Barbara...

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Saitensprung

Der Italiener Domenico Scarlatti kom-ponierte in Spanien ab 1738 mehr als 550 Cembalo-Sonaten voller Anklänge iberischen Temperaments. Dass sich diese auch ausgezeichnet auf einer modernen Gitarre aufführen lassen, zeigt der amerikanische, in Spanien lebende Gitarrist
Stephen Marchionda, der diese Werke nun erst-mals auf einer Super-Audio-CD eingespielt hat.
Scarlatti hatte seine Sonaten hauptsächlich als Übungsstücke für Königin Maria Barbara...