Platti: The Late Keyboard Sonatas
Label: ACCENT Catalog: ACC24228 Format: CD Luca Guglielmi, fortepiano & harpsichordGiovanni Benedetto Platti (1697-1763) Most of Giovanni Benedetto Platti's (c. 1697-1763) compositions fit easily into the late Baroque era, but, in some harpsichord sonatas and concertos for harpsichord and strings, there are elements that are definitely characteristic of the Classical and, aesthetically, even the early Romantic periods. The so-called modernity of Platti's Sonatas for keyboard instruments lies in the completely new "cut" of his Sonatas, in the richness and imagination of his continual invention of motifs, in rhythms, which are never ordinary, and in the efforts to reach the final chord through ever-bolder modulations. Thus these Sonatas appear to be harbingers of the rebellious pre- Romantic mood of the so-called "Sturm und Drang". Price: $27.98 |