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 [log in to unmask]