Scarlatti’s nearly six hundred keyboard sonatas are simple short pieces in one movement, which the unpretentious composer called “Exercises for Harpsichord.” Scarlatti wrote, “Do not expect to find in these compositions any profound intention... Show yourself more human than critical, and thus you will increase your own pleasure… Live Happily!” In this Sonata, we find ourselves in the climate of sunlight and warmth. It is Italy, it is Spain – the spirit of the Latin countries and the god of the Mediterranean.Victor Goldberg
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Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata in E Major, K. 380, L. 23 Play
Recorded on 11/23/2011, uploaded on 04/13/2012
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Scarlatti’s nearly six hundred keyboard sonatas are simple short pieces in one movement, which the unpretentious composer called “Exercises for Harpsichord.” Scarlatti wrote, “Do not expect to find in these compositions any profound intention... Show yourself more human than critical, and thus you will increase your own pleasure… Live Happily!” In this Sonata, we find ourselves in the climate of sunlight and warmth. It is Italy, it is Spain – the spirit of the Latin countries and the god of the Mediterranean. Victor Goldberg
More music by Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata
Sonata K. 391
Sonata K. 87
Sonata in D Major, K. 492
Sonata in E minor L.22 K.198
Sonata in b minor, K. 27, L. 449
Sonata in e minor, K. 98
Sonata in B minor L.33 K.87
Sonata K. 159
Sonata in D major, K. 119
Performances by same musician(s)
Caprice No. 17 in E-flat Major
Impromptu in A-flat Major op. 90, no. 4, D. 899
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