Alexandre Tharaud piano

Performers

Alexandre Tharaud

piano

Programme

Scarlatti

• Sonata in D minor Kk64
• Sonata in D minor Kk9
• Sonata in C Kk72
• Sonata in C Kk132
• Sonata in D Kk29
• Sonata in E Kk380
• Sonata in A minor Kk3
• Sonata in C Kk514
• Sonata in F minor Kk481
• Sonata in D minor Kk141

Liszt

Funérailles S173 No. 7

Chopin

Piano Sonata No. 2 in B♭ minor Op. 35 ‘Funeral March’

About this concert

Despite a dearth of facts about his life, recent scholarship has revealed the international breadth of influences and multiplicity of stylistic strands at work in Domenico Scarlatti’s music.

Alexandre Tharaud’s vivid Scarlatti interpretations embrace the breathtaking variety and colourful musical character of works all too often treated as products stamped from material of the same pattern. The young French pianist’s recent Scarlatti recording was praised by Nicholas Kenyon in the Observer for its ‘wonderfully original reimagining’ of the composer’s sonatas.