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• Format: 180g Vinyl, 33 rpm, Gatefold.
• Audio Processing: AAA (Fully Analog Process) – Recording on original master tape in studio quality.
• Booklet: Includes a 16-page booklet.

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Our goal was to convey with the utmost clarity the colorful and complex interpretation that makes this music its interpreter, as well as to convey the authentic sonic impact of the Tamburini organ in the Sala Scarlatti in Naples, with its more than 4,000 pipes. We hope this intent reaches your ears, transporting you to that authentic moment. This album is a bold journey into the heart of Domenico Scarlatti's music, reinterpreted in a modern key. The multifaceted organist Livia Mazzanti departs from a purely philological approach to "transmute" the Sonatas, intended for the harpsichord, through the powerful and versatile voice of the instrument designed in the 1980s by Jean Guillou for the Naples Conservatory. In an act of profound admiration and interpretative freedom, Mazzanti explores Scarlatti's most intimate and most grandiose nuances, creating a dialogue between two keyboard virtuosos, equally stateless and experimental. The imperfections of the instrument, now awaiting restoration, give the sound a poetic and fascinating character, making the recording a unique testimony to this extraordinary equidistance between past and future, between Neapolitan soul and French genius.

Credits

• Produced by: Lorenzo Vella | BIRD BOX RECORDS
• Recording Engineer: Matteo Spinazzè Savaris, Lorenzo Vella
• Mastering Engineer: Lorenzo Vella
• Musical Supervisor: Peter Dimpflmeier
• Artwork & Design: Lorenzo Vella - Nightingale Studios
• Graphic Designer: Alessandro Bruno

Characteristics

This recording was masterfully mixed in real time on an EMT A400 console and tied directly to an Ampex ATR-102 ½-inch tape recorder.

Album recorded on October 26, 2024, in the Scarlatti Hall of the San Pietro a Majella Conservatory of Music in Naples. Mastering took place in May 2025 at Nightingale Studios in Palombara Sabina (Rome).

Gear used

• ANALOG CONSOLE