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...Bach and Scarlatti were precise contemporaries yet the coupling of their works produced a striking juxta-position. The immensely powerful, almost gruff joyfulness of Bach's final variation and the lofty simplicity of the closing aria still lingered in my mind as Mr. Kirkpatrick returned after intermission and performed in immediate succession three 1) major Scarlatti sonatas which displayed to an extreme degree elements of exotic Spanish fury. These elements are all the more powerful in Scarlatti because they seem to burst forth from the refined and lyrical Italian style in which he was trained. For me, Mr. Kirkpatrick...
Ralph Kirkpatrick is a whole musician for having wrestled seriously with diverse apsects of his field. The ideal of the whole musician--composer, performer, teacher--was prevalent in the 17th and 18th centuries, Mr. Kirkpatrick's special field of interest, and indeed was superbly exemplified by Domeniico Scarlatti, the subject of Mr. Kirkpatrick's biography. The altered social role of the musician today, and specialization within music have made adherence to such an ideal the exception rather than the rule (the late Arthur Schnable is said to have consciously and zealously striven toward it). As far as I know...
These references to Mr. Kirpatrick's writings (specifically to his Scarlatti biography and his edition of Bach's Goldberg Variations) would find no place in this discussion of his Sanders Theatre recital yesterday afternoon did I not fell that they might help convey the sense of dedication with which he seems to approach specific composers as well as the craft of performing. Furthermore the fruits of this scholarship allow Mr. Kirkpatrick to attain an expressive range which is at once bounded by historical conventions and freely guided by his own taste and sensibility...
Yesterday's program consisted of The Goldberg Variations by Bach and ten late sonatas by Scarlatti. These sonatas are one movement works, more nearly resembling the form of a Baroque dance movement than the first movement of a Classical sonata...
After he swings out of the Tiffany this week, Oscar will return to his family in Montreal. There he will spend four to seven hours a day practicing the classics. Why the classics? "I play Chopin because he gives you the reach. Scarlatti gives you the close fingering. Ravel and Debussy help you on those pretty, lush harmonics. Bach gives you the counterpoint...