✨ Domenico Scarlatti’s keyboard sonatas are full of surprises: bold harmonies, dazzling passagework, and sudden shifts between elegance and fire. Today I’m sharing my performance of the Sonata in D Major, K. 443 – a piece that captures Scarlatti’s unmistakable spirit: sparkling, inventive, and at times almost modern in its daring. Though originally written for the harpsichord in the 18th century, these sonatas come alive on the piano with a special brilliance, blending Baroque clarity with Roman

Domenico Scarlatti - Sonata in F minor, K. 466 Dmitry Shishkin @shishkindmitry piano 12th International Music Festival Chopin and His Europe From Italy to Poland – from Mozart to Bellini Warsaw, 15–30 August 2016 All rights reserved 2016 The Fryderyk Chopin Institute #scarlatti | History of Music