Christmas, New Year, Epiphany greetings to all and, of course, birthday greetings to our favorite Capricorn 
! I am posting, as a special holiday treat for all the musical luddites [such as myself] who think more highly of Scarlatti [either Alessandro or Domenico 
] than Schoenberg 
, a link to a new playlist for someone who also groks traditional forms, melodies and harmonies:
I came across his channel accidentally but was very pleasantly surprised. His music resonates with Clementi, Krommer, Crusell, and even Haydn [as in the last movement of the oboe sonata]. Unfortunately, if you check his channel, the software he used to perform his work destroys the sound quality of his music, so I decided, in my usual shameless fashion, to start to re-master them, beginning with the oboe sonata and one of his clarinet concerti. As I said on the notes for the playlist I created for his music:
“I especially admire the fact that he respects the traditions of our western cultural heritage as reflected in the other contemporary composers on my channel who, like myself, still think there is a place for the harmonies and structures bequeathed to us by our musical ancestors. We must take back our culture in many ways, and, in our case,compose music which is not only aesthetically pleasing but consonant with the tonal/modal matrix which begot all music for the last millennium, until the ugly distractions which began in the early 20th century, and which is supported by not only our ears, but our hearts.” So…enjoy!
His channel is:
Please subscribe to it, especially if you are a clarinet performer or teacher.