The ever-prolific Domenico Scarlatti, in addition to his hundreds of keyboard sonatas, wrote works in other genres, including a good deal of sacred choral music. It may be surprising to learn that some of this choral music is as conservative as the keyboard sonatas are radical. The early Missa La Stella recorded here is almost an academic essay in Palestrina counterpoint, and the other two works, although they expand on Scarlatti's models in various interesting ways, are nowhere even Baroque in style, to say nothing of ...
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The ever-prolific Domenico Scarlatti, in addition to his hundreds of keyboard sonatas, wrote works in other genres, including a good deal of sacred choral music. It may be surprising to learn that some of this choral music is as conservative as the keyboard sonatas are radical. The early Missa La Stella recorded here is almost an academic essay in Palestrina counterpoint, and the other two works, although they expand on Scarlatti's models in various interesting ways, are nowhere even Baroque in style, to say nothing of Classical. They are for choir accompanied by a continuo (here played by an organ), but the continuo could be omitted without doing much damage to the music; it mostly just reiterates the polyphonic lines of the choir rather than outlining harmonic motion. The most famous of these three works, and also the most modern, is the Stabat Mater for 10 voices in C minor. Clearly tonal rather than modal, it weaves sensuous operatic lines into polyphony in a way Bach would have enjoyed. And it...
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