Scarlatti, Domenico - Sonater, vol 3 - Hantaï, Pierre (harpsichord)

---

---

ARTISTIC QUALITY: 10

SOUND QUALITY: 10

(CLASSICSTODAY.com)



When people talk about Scarlatti, the first thing they always mention is the influence on him of folk music, and it was a decisive factor.
What is so astonishing in Scarlatti is how these external elements gradually contaminate his language. It’s Scarlatti’s destiny in itself that is so unusual. Scarlatti’s output stands out like an oasis in the eighteenth century, for its astounding harmonic experiments, its rhythm derived from folk music, its exploration of a single musical genre.

(Pierre Hantaï)
Pierre Hantaï, cembalo.