Domenico Scarlatti Sonatas Vincent Boucher - organ SACD2 2341 For his debut recording on the ATMA label, Montreal native Vincent Boucher offers us an opportunity to rediscover Scarlatti's sonatas … on the organ! Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) wrote 555 sonatas for harpsichord.   Following the custom of the period, these sonatas may be played on various keyboard instruments.   Scarlatti was not only a virtuoso harpsichordist but also an exceptional organist.   Some sonatas, by virtue of their nature or of how they are written, are particularly well suited to the organ.   Examples include certain preludes and fugues from Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, which dates from the same period. Vincent Boucher Photo - Christian Carpentier Vincent Boucher has chosen 18 sonatas which not only can be played on the organ, but on which he feels the organ sheds “a new and favorable light by virtue of its colorful registrations, the notes held and heard for their full duration, the doubling of low notes by the pedal, etc.”   Vincent Boucher played these sonatas on the splendid Italian organ, made by Karl Wilhelm, of the Très-Saint-Rédempteur church in Montreal. • “Not yet 30 years old, and already spectacular.” - Claude Gingras, La Presse   1. Sonate en sol mineur / Sonate in G minor K 31 - Allegro       4:59   2. Sonate en sol mineur / Sonata in G minor K 35 - Allegro       3:17   3. Sonate en do mineur / Sonate in C minor K 84       3:43   4. Sonate en do mineur / Sonata in C minor K 58 - Fuga       3:42   5. Sonate en fa mineur / Sonate In F minor K 69       6:2O   6. Sonate en ré mineur / Sonate in D minor K 517 - Prestissimo       3:52   7. Sonate en la mineur / Sonate in A minor K 61       4:07   8. Sonate en ré mineur / Sonate in D minor K 9 - Allegro       3:28   9. Sonate en fa majeur / Sonata in F major K 525 - Allegro       3:15 10. Sonate en ré mineur / Sonate in D minor K 1 - Allegro       2:50 11. Sonate en ré mineur / Sonata in D minor K 191 - Allegro       4:00 12. Sonale en ré majeur / Sonata in D major K 287 - Andante allegro. Per Organo       2:07 13. Sonate en ré majeur / Sonate in D major K 288 - Allegro       1:59 14. Sonate en si mineur / Sonata in B minor K 87       7:01 15. Sonate en do mineur / Sonata in C minor K 56 - Con spirito       4:13 16. Sonate en do mineur / Sonata in C minor K 99 - Allegro       5:22 17. Sonate en sol mineur / Sonsts in G minor K 12 - Presto       4:18 18. Sonate en sol mineur / Sonata in G minor K 30 - Fuga - Moderato       4:41 ATMA Classique is distributed in Australia by Rockian Trading PO Box 44, Briar Hill, Vic, 3088, Australia Telephone +61 (0)3 9432 4149 ~ Facsimile +61 (0)3 9444 6879