Richard Pennycuick wrote:

>I remember di Bonaventura as a persuasive speaker whose introductions had
>the audience in the palm of his hand very quickly.  His playing was very
>fine.  However, apart from an LP of othe Debussy Etudes on Connoisseur
>Society which appeared soon after, I never heard of him again.

In 1993, Titanic released a disc of di Bonaventura performing D. Scarlatti
sonatas on piano.  I thought it was very good, but I did prefer an EMI
cd from Zacharias(sp?), also on piano.  I'm glad Richard posted about di
Bonaventura.  I haven't listened to Scarlatti for a long time, so I'll make
sure to play both recordings.

It's coming back to me.  The reason I liked Zacharias so much at that time
was that he was a master at smoothing out Scarlatti's music.  Yes,
sometimes it did sound like Scarlatti in a coma, but I think that Zacharias
had a vision and made good on it.

Don Satz
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