Nissinen

There is nobody who has not come across one or another of Domenico Scarlatti's 555 keyboard sonatas, for they are the most celebrated part of his body of work. Who, however, knows anything of the fifteen operas and the dozens of arias, duets and cantatas, or of his oratorios and various other sacred works?

"Sheer joy in music-making is as evident here as the sense of piety required by what are, after all, holy works. Yet it is difficult to begrudge Vox Luminis the feeling of joy at the astonishing sounds they are able to produce. The spirit of devotion is very much alive here too, in an album that pays equal attention to the holy and the heady."

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