Credits:

Muti, Riccardo, & Wiener

Description:

Selected, a collection of Scarlatti's works on three discs that crystallize the art of Scarlatti. The pattern of thoroughly devoting himself to this composer but not making systematic recordings ...... is the same as when Haas previously recorded works from François Couperin's four Klavsin collections for the Alpha label. Haas has chosen only those works that he can truly relate to, and he has narrowed his selection down to two manuscripts from the 1740s during Scarlatti's lifetime, manuscripts that are now in Venice. The instrument used is a harpsichord made in Paris in 1751, also from the composer's lifetime. As with the previous Bach recording (HSP001), the performance is very crisp, while carefully avoiding any mischievous sharpness or beatiness, and the virtuoso engineer Hugues Deschaux has appropriately captured the subtleties and reverberations of touch. This is a recording I will want to revisit from time to time. Record-Geijutsu May 2017 Special Edition" Naxos Japan