🇮🇹Domenico Scarlatti ： Sonata in a-moll K.341 L.140

Built from short motives, the music moves forward through vivid exchanges between the right and left hands, delicate runs, and shifting harmonies. Within its concise two-part structure, repetition highlights the character of each section while maintaining tension toward the cadences. In performance, clarity of articulation and rhythmic flow should take precedence over sheer speed, with ornaments naturally connected to the melodic line. Careful balance between the hands, together with clearly shaped phrase peaks and rests, brings out the work’s momentum and changing expression beneath its lightness.