Händel - Scarlatti Pierre Hantai

• George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759): Il pastor fido in D Minor, HWV 8a:
• 1 Handel: Il pastor fido in D Minor, HWV 8a: Ouverture (Arr. for Harpsichord by Pierre Hantaï) 04:58
• George Frideric Handel: Suite in D Minor, HWV 437:
• 2 Handel: Suite in D Minor, HWV 437: I. Allemande 04:33
• 3 Handel: Suite in D Minor, HWV 437: II. Corrant 01:47
• 4 Handel: Suite in D Minor, HWV 437: III. Sarabande 03:18
• 5 Handel: Suite in D Minor, HWV 437: IV. Menuetto and Variations 04:09
• 6 Handel: Suite in D Minor, HWV 437: V. Gigue 01:54
• Domenico Scarlatti (1685 - 1757):
• 7 Scarlatti: Sonata in E Minor, K 147 05:15
• 8 Scarlatti: Sonata in A Major, K. 24: Presto 05:31
• 9 Scarlatti: Sonata in A Major, K. 429: Allegro 03:17
• George Frideric Handel: Suite No. 5 in E Major, HWV 430:
• 10 Handel: Suite No. 5 in E Major, HWV 430: I. Prélude 02:10
• 11 Handel: Suite No. 5 in E Major, HWV 430: II. Allemande 05:31
• 12 Handel: Suite No. 5 in E Major, HWV 430: III. Courante 02:13
• 13 Handel: Suite No. 5 in E Major, HWV 430: IV. Air and Variations "The Harmonious Blacksmith" 05:07
• Domenico Scarlatti:
• 14 Scarlatti: Sonata in D Major, K. 443: Allegro 04:53
• 15 Scarlatti: Sonata in G Minor, K. 12: Presto 03:50
• 16 Scarlatti: Sonata in G Minor, K. 546: Cantabile 05:08
• 17 Scarlatti: Sonata in B-Flat Major, K. 16: Presto 05:07
• Total Runtime 01:08:41

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Handel and Scarlatti together? Long ago, in Rome (for a musical joust before the most eminent cardinals), in Venice (at a masked ball where Scarlatti recognised the faceless harpsichordist: “It could be no one but the famous Saxon, or the devil”), in London (where an opera by Scarlatti was staged).

Together again under the pen of Charles Burney, who celebrated them as the two supreme masters of the harpsichord, the ‘heavenly twins’.

And together once more in the little church in Haarlem to which Pierre Hantaï returns like a pilgrim.

Pierre Hantai, harpsichord

Pierre Hantaï
Born in 1964, Pierre Hantaï 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 ute sonatas (with Hugo Reyne); four discs of sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti; a programme of works by François Couperin; and a recording of music for two harpsichords by Rameau (with Skip Sempé).

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