Ogeil: Giustini, de Albero, Platti & Scarlatti

MUSIC FOR THE FIRST PIANO

Enter the sound world of 1700, where the beginnings of a classical approach to music was being explored, and where a keyboard instrument was invented that could shape and shade dynamics.

Bartolomeo Cristofori invented the piano in the 1690s and made his last instrument in 1729/1730. The Cristofori reproduction played by Jacqueline Ogeil in this recital is one of only two copies in the world.

Ogeil’s doctoral dissertation presented a strong argument that Domenico Scarlatti wrote his keyboard sonatas principally with this new instrument in mind. In this program Scarlatti is joined by other Italian composers who were finding individual ways of responding to the piano’s expressive capabilities.

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