Date: March 15, 2008 Name: Manuel C. Melendez City & Country: Mexicali, B.C., Mexico Comments: Gracias por rendir tributo a Luciano Sgrizzi. Los que conocimos su arte, lo seguiremos admirando y recordando... Date: August 7, 2007 Name: Thomas de Vries City & Country: Wiesbaden, Germany Comments: Besides the comments here about Sgrizzi's wonderful harpsichord playing, I would like to point out his beautiful instrumental realisation of Cavalli's "Ercole amante", which was recorded with Michel Corboz, the most tasteful Cavalli recording!. Date: June 20, 2007 Name: Francesco Benincasa City & Country: Torino, Italia Comments: Conservo gelosamente il disco della Nonesuch Record con il quale ho trascorso ore felici. Il nome di Sgrizzi evoca ricordi splendidi. Nessun altro clavicembalista lo ha potuto eguagliare. Il suo Scarlatti resta il migliore. Date: July 1, 2006 Name: Mahan Esfahani City & Country: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Comments: Mr. Sgrizzi's recording of works of Schobert on fortepiano with Chiara Bianchini has no equal - if only there were more recordings of his on fortepiano! What a great figure - I have the deepest respect for his recordings of Scarlatti and hope that to-day's so-called "harpsichordists" will take time to listen to them for a lesson in humility and real musicianship! Date: June 9, 2006 Name: Edward Nelson City & Country: Amelia, Umbria, Italia Comments: Nobody plays Domenico Scarlatti like Sgrizzi. All of the others crash out because they are tourists. They don't connect with Iberian ethos and pacing. Or they do, but go over the top, resulting in caricature. Date: July 10, 2005 Name: Eric Ebenau City & Country: Haren, The Netherlands Comments: Today, July 2005, I read 2 references to the records of Mr. Sgrizzi in the sixties. Right now I am listening to such a original record. Sgrizzi plays Scarlatti sonatas on a Nonesuch recording from 1966. Anyone who knows on what kind of harpsichord he is playing? On the label there are no indications of it. I am interested because I am restoring an old harpsichord myself. The sound of Sgrizzi's recording looks like a Pleyel (like Landowska used to play). Date: January 2, 2005 Name: Charles-André Schleppy City & Country: La Chaux-de-Fonds, Suisse Comments: J'ai eu le privilège d'entre L. Sgrizzi en récital dans ma ville. J'étudiais à cette époque le clavecin. Je garde un souvenir émouvant de ce récital. Date: November 25, 2004 Name: Nick Rumin E-mail: nicholas.rumin@sympatico.ca City & Country: Montreal, Canada Comments: I too, like Sylvie Labonte, stumbled across your interesting site while searching for the CD Concerti per Mandolini Paisiello-Giuliani-Lecce. Any pointers to a likely source? Date: May 3, 2004 Name: Jef Lowell City & Country: Cleveland, Ohio, USA Comments: I fell in love with the harpsichord, and resolved to build one and learn to play after hearing a recording of Mr. Sgrizzi back in the '60s. All these many years later, I still find the greatest pleasure in his trancendently smooth playing. What a special man! Date: March 13, 2004 Name: Ryan Layne Whitney City & Country: Seattle, Washington, USA Comments: I am very pleased to have found this fine web site. As a teenager in the 60's, I bought a record of Luciano Sgrizzi playing Scarlatti on the harpsichord: it was my first exposure to Scarlatti (I was 14) and certainly one of the most important musical epiphanies of my formative years---I couldn't wait to get home from school to listen again and again to that record. I nearly wore the record out, and bought a 2nd copy. Only recently I found it reissued (through Amazon France) and can now enjoy it anew. Even now, in the more staid period of middle age, the name of Sgrizzi reminds me of the excitement I felt at that tender age, and from that day to this Scarlatti has been a staple of my repertoire (on harpsichord and piano). Date: October 9, 2003 Name: Sylvie Labonté E-mail: syllab@total.net City & Country: Canada Comments: Very interesting site. I found it while searching for the Concerti per Mandolini - Paisiello-Giulani-Lecce ECD 88165. I wish to buy the CD but it has been discontinued... How terrible! Does anyone know how I could get or purchase this precious music? I'm desperate! Date: April 4, 2003 Name: Paul Gabler City & Country: Amsterdam, The Netherlands Comments: The site, including some acoustical examples looks great and I hope you eventually will complete the discography into perfection. Date: March 30, 2003 Name: Lapo Sali City & Country: Italia Comments: Sito molto ben costruito. Per non dimenticare.