About this title: Charles Avison's concertos after Domenico Scarlatti -- often referred to as the "Avison Scarlatti concerti" -- are a landmark in British music. It's sometimes hard to get a grip on what makes them Avison, and indeed, in older recordings, one can find them accredited to Scarlatti alone with Avison merely indicated as an arranger, if at all -- certainly they have unjustly overshadowed Avison's own, very fine, original concerti. Despite his industrious achievement in producing keyboard sonatas, Scarlatti never composed a single concerto -- Avison made this set of 12 by arranging and adapting ...
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