Instrumental, Piano Solos, Piano Sonatas, Scarlatti, D (composer)
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The real point of this recording is its wonderful pianism…Colli takes no liberties with the text…the kaleidoscope is shaken and shaken, creating a riveting hour, with most of the works being... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2020
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2020, Recording of the Month
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Grammy Awards, 29th Awards (1986), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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Grammy Awards, 29th Awards (1986), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Grammy Awards, 29th Awards (1986), Classical Album of the Year
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Every so often a major pianist reclaims Scarlatti for the piano with an outstanding recording. As Ralph Kirkpatrick put it, Scarlatti's harpsichord, while supremely itself, is continually menacing... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1996, Winner - Instrumental
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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... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2015, Editor's Choice
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JS Bach, Handel & Scarlatti: Gamba Sonatas
Steven Isserlis (cello), Richard Egarr (harpsichord), with Robin Michael (cello)
This isn’t one for the dyed-in-the-wool authenticist…fortunately, dessicated 'authenticity' has been supplanted by imaginatively experimenting performers supported by scholarly evidence…in the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, Editor's Choice
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Angela Hewitt responds intuitively and alluringly to the multi-faceted character of these sonatas —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2016, Instrumental Choice
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Perianes' playing discovers Scarlatti's expressive diversity with intimacy and communicative warmth. —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2025, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Colli’s colouring of the music is imaginative, and he is often persuasive in his cantabile playing…Yet too often elsewhere his gestures seem exaggerated…In short, notwithstanding some splendid... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th May 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2018
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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;... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2016, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Instrumental
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The Complete Masterworks Recordings Vol. I
RecommendedThe Studio Recordings 1962-1963
Vladimir Horowitz (piano)
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Grammy Awards, 5th Awards (1962), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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Grammy Awards, 5th Awards (1962), Classical Album of the Year
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Grammy Awards, 6th Awards (1963), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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Grammy Awards, 7th Awards (1964), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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