Charles Metz

Charles Metz – Scarlatti Sonatas (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:11:10 minutes | 2,60 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Navona

Ivory keys worn by two centuries of passionate musicians tell a story of musical evolution on SCARLATTI SONATAS, an album of previously unrecorded solo harpsichord sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, Antonio Soler, and an unidentified composer. Performed today by pianist Charles Metz, these works were first adapted for performance on the pianoforte in 1791 by Muzio Clementi, who breathed new life into Scarlatti’s timeless work with marked dynamics, articulations, and more. While Metz’s choice of repertoire holds ample historical significance, so does the instrument he employs to perform them — an 1806 square piano built by Clementi himself.

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Charles Metz – Scarlatti Sonatas (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:11:10 minutes | 2,59 GB | Genre: Classique
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover

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Charles Metz – Music for Virginal (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:19:20 minutes | 3,14 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Navona

This special recording features an historical repertoire seldom heard, even by Early Music aficionados. But more remarkable, the instrument heard here dates to the years when this music was first played. Nothing is known of this instrument’s provenance before 2005, when it surfaced in an antique shop in Fairview Heights IL. Guided to the shop by a friend, Charles Metz purchased it, following a gut instinct that it was original. Unplayable, the virginal was advertised as a piece of painted furniture.

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