Un gioco ardito Summary
Domenico Scarlatti, the son of Alessandro, was a European musician who, due to familial or existential pressures, cultivated an unusual passion for the musica reservata of the harpsichord, of which he was a great master and with which he won a history-making competition with Handel. His shyness caused him, unlike Alessandro, to forsake becoming a popular figure by performing in theatres. He chose, instead, to spend some forty years teaching the virtuous infanta and future queen of Spain, Maria Barbara of Braganza. His "exercises", intended to be didactic pieces, and were far from the usual compositions for students, and also greatly differed from the music of his day heard in concert halls. The 555 Sonatas (almost 600 at present) neither reflect the conventions of his own time, nor those of the future. They were the result of the legacy that Domenico absorbed from the cultures he came into contact with: Naples, Lusitania, Spain. He created brilliant, atypical forms whose discontinuity...
Un gioco ardito Cast
- Maddalena Balsamo
- Ruggero Laganà
- Gustav Leonhardt
- José Saramago
- Shel Shapiro