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A Scarlatti Piano

BBC Radio 3
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A few years ago Harold Lester discovered in a Lisbon antique shop an 18th-century Portuguese fortepiano, which he considers as suitable as the harpsichord for most of Domenico Scarlatti 's s keyboard music. He talks about the instrument and plays sonatas by Scarlatti in F sharp (Kk 318 and 319). D (Kk 414, 415 and 416), A (Kk 208 and 209) and B (Kk 244 and 245)

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Harold Lester
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Domenico Scarlatti
Source: Radio Times

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