COMPANY: Naxos
ARTIST: Daumants Liepins
CATEGORY: CD
COMPOSER: Antonio Soler

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Antonio Soler (1729-1783)

Keyboard sonatas

Keyboard sonatas Nos 96-98 (op. 4 No. 6 & op. 8 Nos. 1 & 2)

Daumants Liepins (piano)

Like many Catalan musicians of his time, Antonio Soler received initial training as a chorister before his excellence as an organist ensured high appointment at the Escorial, Spain’s royal palace. Here he absorbed the influence of Domenico Scarlatti, and the keyboard sonatas Soler composed remain his most lasting contribution to musical history. The three sonatas in this volume reflect his awareness of trends in Viennese music and are notable for their vivid pastoral elements, refined delicacy and sizzling virtuosic demands