Alexis Weissenberg - Scarlatti: Sonaten (1986)

Alexis Weissenberg is the ultimate shaker and mover of pianists, a Tamburlaine of the keyboard who deploys his force and cunning with a hypnotic verve and controlled fury... Weissenberg’s Scarlatti is superb. His musical quality may be less apparent when the virtuoso heat is on yet there is no denying his strikingly inflected brilliance... he remains among the most powerful and compulsive voices in twentieth-century pianism.