Browse: Scarlatti, D - Keyboard Sonata K208 in A major

This is impassioned, eloquent Scarlatti, emanating directly from the heart, ordered and juxtaposed by an inspired artistic sensibility. Anyone in love with Scarlatti or with he sound of the harpsichord... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2018 More…

in order for Huangci to maintain balance and proportion within her superimposed larger forms, she understandably omits repeats, which avid Scarlatti connoisseurs might miss. Yet when you consider... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2015 More…

Long immersed in Scarlatti’s music, Sudbin is an ardent advocate, his fearless Russian-school technique making light weather of even the most breakneck writing: rhythms are crisp and buoyant;... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This disc from rising French harpsichordist Justin Taylor finds a perfect partner for the quirky Italian…The Scarlatti sonatas are almost all relatively familiar ones…but Taylor ensures that... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2018 More…

One the most intelligently programmed and distinctively played Scarlatti collections to cross my reviewer’s desk in years. — Gramophone Magazine, September 2022 More…

Hantai responds sensitively to the myriad expressive nuances of these single-movement Sonatas, overlooking none of their subtleties and underlining their striking affective contrasts. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

if Tharaud is evidently aware of the stylistic insights afforded by the scholarly diggings of the past few decades, he's unrepentantly pianistic in his approach...Tharaud's is playing with personality,... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

…this is Scarlatti playing which makes considerable appeal. No exaggerated gestures, no histrionics and no blurring of textures which, throughout, Arodaky preserves with praiseworthy clarity. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…