🇮🇹Domenico Scarlatti ： Sonata in d-moll K.417 L.462

Within its brief single movement, this sonata presents the keyboard’s characteristic sense of motion alongside a highly concentrated expressive character. Hearing it as a two-part design in which the first and second halves respond to one another makes the recurring rhythms, exchanges between registers, and harmonic changes easier to perceive. The rapid details should be kept even and clearly directed toward the destination of each phrase, while the parts in the two hands are carefully distinguished. Decorative notes should not be rushed, but shaped naturally within the flow of the beat, bringing out the music’s lightness and tension. Clarifying the resonance at points of division and sensing the breath leading into the next phrase helps reveal the forward momentum within its concise writing.