Review: Domenico Scarlatti - The Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 10

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If Francesco Nicholai's Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 9 was a study of Scarlatti's minor key, moderately paced sonatas, then Coleen Lee's Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 10 is a study in Scarlatti presto barn burning sonatas. Lee brings to the keyboard a commanding approach that approximates Vladimir Horowitz in his Scarlatti. But this is no mere comparison. Lee brings the same inventive reverence and sense of wonder to the pieces. Perhaps a more accurate simile would be that Lee performs Scarlatti as one would expect Johann Sebastian Bach to, had he done so. Lee begins her recital with with...

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