eac-rip: flac-img, cue, log, complete scans. rar, 3% rec. 1 CD - 334MB TACTUS - 2008 - 681907 Four of the six sonatas contained on this CD (unnumbered in the K catalogue) are held in the archives of the Escolania de Montserrat: AM 1770 (in C Major), AM 2158 (C Major, G Major and G Minor), and AM 2786 (also in C Major). Attributed to Domenico Scarlatti by Bengt Johnsson, they were published for the first time in the first of three volumes dedicated to the Sonatas of Scarlatti issued by the Henle Verlag. These compositions are certainly less original than the standard Scarlatti sonatas, but are nonetheless interesting for their form, which resembles that of the sonatas by Lorenzo De Rossi. The biographical information concerning Lorenzo De Rossi 1) (Rome, 1720 –1794) is virtually non-existent. A Roman singer, he is remembered above all as a virtuoso on the harpsichord, an instrument to which he dedicated his only collection of instrumental music (and his only known work), “Sei Sona...
