Thank heaven
Pierre Hantaï isn't contemplating recording all 555 of the Harpsichord Sonatas of
Domenico Scarlatti! While it is a wonderful thing to have all of a composer's oeuvre available, it is also a burden. After all, who has the time to listen to 555 sonatas, who has the time to discover which are the great works, which are the mediocre works, and which are the awful works? The answer, of course, is that very few people have that much time, and fewer still that much will power. For most listeners, it is imperative to have the performer decide which are the pieces worthy of recording and which are the pieces worth ignoring, because otherwise,
Scarlatti's 555 sonatas will remain terra incognita.