
Scarlatti: Sonatas for Harpsichord
Composed by: Domenico Scarlatti
2014
Mirare
Domenico Scarlatti was an incorrigible gambler, spared from debtor’s prison only through the charity of his patron (and longtime harpsichord student), Queen Maria Barbara of Spain. Although the 50 keyboard sonatas here comprise less than a tenth of Scarlatti’s total output in the genre, Hantaï approaches each with the high stakes mentality of an all-in poker hand or do-or-die craps roll: reckless, capricious, and indulgently picaresque, but with massive payouts that more than warrant the risk.
– Zev Kane
Who also suggested
- Acronym
- Adam Laloum, Julien Libeer
- La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler
- Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
- Bjarte Eike, Barokksolistene
- Maxim Emelyanychev, Il Pomo d'Oro, Jakub Józef Orliński
- Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
- Danish String Quartet
- Víkingur Ólafsson
- Víkingur Ólafsson