Scarlatti, K 30 Cat´s Fugue, `Katzen-Fuge´

Legend has it that the sound made by a cat walking across the keyboard gave rise to the apparently incoherent theme of this fugue.
This is a first attempt on my fairly noisy Yamaha.
I hope to be able to upload a more coherent interpetation of it in the next few weeks - it´ll probably be a while though, before i can rid the piano of those extra noises and get a decent microphone to record with.

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Music

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• Domenico Scarlatti
• Sonata
• K 30
• Cat´s Fugue
• Katzen-Fuge

[pianojetaime]

@mossfitz: thanks. Do you know whitch level this is? i need a barock piece for my entrance examination in Hannover and Hamburg. Know I have got Beethoven opus 79 no.1 and Bartok Mikrokosmos no 153. sry about my english.

[mossfitz]

@pianojetaime I don´t know at what level this would be placed - i am mostly self-thought - but if you can master the first movement of Beethoven`s Sonata Number 25 Opus 79, this fugue should not be too challenging. Scarlatti is not a natural for me as most of his music demands extreme technical precision. This piece can be played more "singingly" and therefore slightly more freely than many of his other works. I should record it again - this version is a bit stiff and scrappy

The key is G Minor

[pianojetaime]

do you play with the right pedal all the time?

[mossfitz]

@pianojetaime Its a bit of a bad habit. i occasionally use the pedal where it helps smooth over fingering breaks - i´ve reduced that a fair bit since recording this, but i still find the rising octaves towards the end dont live up to the build-up without some pedal. The piano has a messy sound anyway and needs a lot of work before i record again.

[mistou26]

Great .. !!

You should really try to find a way to record it with a better sound.

I love this piece .. and learned things from the way you paly it ..

Thank you for sharing

[mossfitz]

@mistou26 Thanks for your kind comments. Your recording sounds well practiced and good. i hope to have the time to organise a better sound sometime in September - by then my interpretation might be more even and solid too.

The piece seems to imply some mysterious potential in music - a path not taken or something...

[simonbaber]

Fabulous Playing mate,well done!

[simonbaber]

@pianojetaime Thisis grade 8. Topgrade before diploma!

[usagoodbyeisayhello]

Fantastic! Never heard it before.

[elfaistos]

great!! thank you for this!

[pianojetaime]

which key is it?