Title: Keyboard Sonatas 8 Artist: Soler / Ann Label: Naxos Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 747313386376 Genre: Classical Release Date: 2018-07-13 Number of Discs: 1
For the last 25 years of his life Antonio Soler occupied the distinguished positions of maestro di capilla and organist at the Escorial palace. He wrote around 150 keyboard sonatas, which remain his best-known achievement, a body of music that reveals the subtle influence of Domenico Scarlatti on the Catalan composer, as well as prevailing Viennese trends. Volume eight of the complete sonatas shows Soler's cultivation of expressive melancholy in No. 77 in F sharp minor, a virtuosic use of the full range of the keyboard in No. 85 in F sharp minor and characteristically vibrant Spanish motifs in No. 86 in D major. Soo-Jung Ann has had great success at international piano competitions, receiving first prize at the International Telekom Beethoven Competition in Bonn in 2013, the Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Prize of the Piano Academy in Eppan in 2013, and first prize at the Maria Canals International Music Competition. She has performed widely and appeared as a concerto soloist with the finest orchestras of Europe.
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