Soler: El diablo vestido de fraile, Cembalowerke

Ares, Diego

PC 10201

The Fandango in D minor by the Catalan Antonio Soler (1729-1783) is today one of the most popular harpsichord pieces of the 18th century. Although it cannot be proved with certainty that Soler was a pupil of Domenico Scarlatti, it is more than probable that the two composers had at least a personal acquaintance because of some similarities in their music for keyboard instruments. Soler's sonatas, however, show an even stronger influence of Spanish folk dances such as Bolero, Seguidilla or Polo compared to those of Scarlatti. The Fandango in particular may have earned the composer the appellation "devil disguised as a priest". One can hardly escape the Spanish temperament of this music, especially when a compatriot of Soler's traces it and then it also experiences such an inspired realization as by the young harpsichordist Diego Ares.

Works:

• Soler, A: Fandango
• Soler, A: Keyboard Sonata No. 10 in B minor
• Soler, A: Keyboard Sonata No. 11 in B major
• Soler, A: Keyboard Sonata No. 18 in C minor
• Soler, A: Keyboard Sonata No. 37 in D major
• Soler, A: Keyboard Sonata No. 74 in D major
• Soler, A: Keyboard Sonata No. 81 in G minor
• Soler, A: Keyboard Sonata No. 84 in D major
• Soler, A: Keyboard Sonata No. 90 in F sharp major
• Soler, A: Keyboard Sonata No. 92 in D major (Op. 4 No. 2)
• Soler, A: Keyboard Sonata No. 96 in E flat major (Op. 4 No. 6)
• Soler, A: Keyboard Sonata No. 100 in C minor
• Soler, A: Prelude No. 1 in D minor
• Soler, A: Prelude No. 5 in D major
• Soler, A: Prelude No. 7 in C minor

CD x 1

Pan Classics

16.10.2009

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