Scarlatti, Vol. 6 Pierre Hantaï

• Domenico Scarlatti (1685 - 1757): Keyboard Sonata:
• 1 Keyboard Sonata in D Major, K. 119 05:58
• 2 Keyboard Sonata in D Major, K. 179 03:06
• 3 Keyboard Sonata in G Minor, K. 234 06:20
• 4 Keyboard Sonata in C Major, K. 501 06:49
• 5 Keyboard Sonata in C Major, K. 502 04:32
• 6 Keyboard Sonata in F Minor, K. 69 04:59
• 7 Keyboard Sonata in G Minor, K. 43 03:07
• 8 Keyboard Sonata in C Major, K. 384 04:38
• 9 Keyboard Sonata in C Major, K. 487 04:13
• 10 Keyboard Sonata in C Major, K. 170 06:51
• 11 Keyboard Sonata in F Major, K. 6 03:02
• 12 Keyboard Sonata in B-Flat Major, K. 550 05:01
• 13 Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, K. 18 03:26
• 14 Keyboard Sonata in B-Flat Major, K. 544 04:51
• 15 Keyboard Sonata in B-Flat Major, K. 273 04:10
• 16 Keyboard Sonata in D Major, K. 161 03:21
• 17 Keyboard Sonata in G Major, K. 477 03:52
• Total Runtime 01:18:16

Info for Scarlatti, Vol. 6

No one is so eminently personal as Scarlatti: he obeys no rules but his own. When he arrived in Portugal at the age of thirty-four, he was still no more than a conventional composer, overshadowed by his father, even if he had made a reputation as an outstanding virtuoso. But the discovery of new cultures had a revelatory effect on him . . . This volume 6 continues Pierre Hantaï’s exploration of the sonatas of Scarlatti.

Pierre Hantaï, harpsichord

Pierre Hantaï
Born in 1964, became passionately devoted to the music of Bach around the age of ten. Thanks to the influence of Gustav Leonhardt, he began to study the harpsichord, alone at first, then guided by the American teacher Arthur Haas. He gave his first concerts at an early age, alone or with his brothers Marc and Jérôme. He then spent two years studying in Amsterdam with Gustav Leonhardt, who subsequently invited him to perform under his direction.

In the years that followed he collaborated with many musicians and directors of Baroque ensembles, among them Philippe Herreweghe, the Kuijken brothers, François Fernandez, Marc Minkowski, and Philippe Pierlot. Nowadays he mostly performs as a soloist around the world. He often appears as a guest with Jordi Savall, and he also enjoys joining his brothers and such friends as Hugo Reyne, Sébastien Marq, Amandine Beyer, Skip Sempé, Olivier Fortin, Christophe Coin and Jean-Guihen Queyras to play chamber music.

He recently re-formed the ensemble he created in the 1980s, Le Concert Français, for several concerts and a disc of suites and cantatas by Bach.

His extensive discography includes a number of recordings for Mirare: Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier (Book I), Goldberg Variations, and flutesonatas (with Hugo Reyne); three discs of sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti; a program of works by François Couperin; and most recently a recording of music for two harpsichords by Rameau (with Skip Sempé).

Booklet for Scarlatti, Vol. 6