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5.0 out of 5 stars
Kicked-up Scarlatti, February 11, 2006
This review is from: Scarlatti: Sonatas - Linda Nicholson (Audio CD)
I dunno about the instrument--it's much more percussive than the Antunes 1767 copy in "The Portuguese Fortepiano" reviewed elsewhere on Amazon.com. But Linda Nicholson plays the heck out of her instrument. She even gives new insights on the old turkey K. 159, but the absolute killer sonata on this recording is K 249. OK, she misses the hemiola in the concluding sections, but even at 99 percent, her performance is electrifying, way beyond Ross and Hashimoto. Nichols does not do enough to exploit the loud-soft of her instrument, but she has rhythm!
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