Pieter-Jan Belder, a student of Bob van Asperen, is one of just a few keyboardists to have undertaken the gargantuan task of recording all of Domenico Scarlatti's 555 keyboard sonatas -- he is doing them in order by catalog number, and with this set of three CDs he is on the home stretch with his ninth volume. The most distinctive feature of Belder's set is that he uses several different instruments, including a fortepiano -- English-speaking listeners may be confused by the designation on the package of this as a ...
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Pieter-Jan Belder, a student of Bob van Asperen, is one of just a few keyboardists to have undertaken the gargantuan task of recording all of Domenico Scarlatti's 555 keyboard sonatas -- he is doing them in order by catalog number, and with this set of three CDs he is on the home stretch with his ninth volume. The most distinctive feature of Belder's set is that he uses several different instruments, including a fortepiano -- English-speaking listeners may be confused by the designation on the package of this as a "pianoforte," but it is a modern reproduction of a fortepiano by Ferrini, one of the earliest builders in the instrument's tradition. The use of a fortepiano is not a surprise, for since the appearance of Scott Ross' all-harpsichord Scarlatti cycle in the 1980s the idea that Scarlatti might have been one of the piano's early champions has gained currency. Four different harpsichords are used, as well (and he has used an organ in other sets). It is hard to divine Belder's thought processes in...
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