🇮🇹Domenico Scarlatti ： Sonata in D-Dur K.436 L.109

This sonata highlights the appeal of Scarlatti’s keyboard writing, with its repeated concise motives and lively sense of motion. Built around a single-movement binary form, it develops material presented in the first half before moving through changes of key toward the conclusion. The ornaments and finely detailed motion that appear throughout call for crisp articulation and clearly defined notes. Carefully coordinating the exchanges between the hands, avoiding an overly hurried tempo, and preserving the direction of the melodic lines and the buoyancy of the beat will bring out the brilliance within the economical writing. Slightly varying the expression on repeats and listening for the answering relationships between phrases will also lend the performance greater conviction.