Pierre Hantaï (harpsichord)

Handel: Il Pastor Fido - Overture
Handel: Keyboard Suite, HWV 437 in D minor
Scarlatti, D: Keyboard Sonata K147 in E minor
Scarlatti, D: Keyboard Sonata K24 in A major
Scarlatti, D: Keyboard Sonata K429 in A major
Handel: Keyboard Suite, HWV 430 in E major 'The Harmonious Blacksmith'
Scarlatti, D: Keyboard Sonata K443 in D major
Scarlatti, D: Keyboard Sonata K12 in G minor
Scarlatti, D: Keyboard Sonata K546 in G minor
Scarlatti, D: Keyboard Sonata K16 in B flat major

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.