The fame and enormous output of Domenico Scarlatti inspired various followers and imitators in Spain in the third quarter of the 18th century. The present disc is devoted to one of the least-known but potentially most interesting: Manuel Blaso de Nebra, who worked in Seville and died in 1784 at the age of 34. Most of his music, with the exception of some 30 works, has been destroyed. The Op. 1 group of sonatas excerpted here was published in 1780; the rest of the music comes from an undated monastery manuscript but seems to ...
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The fame and enormous output of Domenico Scarlatti inspired various followers and imitators in Spain in the third quarter of the 18th century. The present disc is devoted to one of the least-known but potentially most interesting: Manuel Blaso de Nebra, who worked in Seville and died in 1784 at the age of 34. Most of his music, with the exception of some 30 works, has been destroyed. The Op. 1 group of sonatas excerpted here was published in 1780; the rest of the music comes from an undated monastery manuscript but seems to come from the same period. Potential buyers of this disc ought to be sympathetic to highly pianistic recordings of Scarlatti, but the choice of a modern instrument is reasonable in Blasco de Nebra's case; there's a good deal of evidence that Scarlatti, working several decades earlier, at least had the sound of a fortepiano in his head. And he took the potentially pianistic qualities of the music farther than did contemporaries like Carlos Seixas and even Antonio Soler; the sonatas,...
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