The exhilaration experienced on hearing this recording in its original LP format is, happily, renewed in its predictably equally excellent CD version. Pinnock's lively, sparklingly fresh, spontaneous-sounding and pointed performances of this admirably varied baker's dozen of Scarlatti sonatas cannot fail to delight lovers of this most engaging and unpredictable composer: indeed, I would regard this as an essential disc for them. There are informative notes on the music by NA, but his history is inexact: the 15-year-old prince that Scarlatti's pupil Maria Barbara married did not become Fernando VI until nearly 18 years later, and in 1742 she was not queen of anywhere, least of all Portugal.'