Who can recommend good Scarlatti sonatas for keyboard?!
Question: He wrote hundreds and I have access to them all in PDF format but it's hard to tell just from looking at them which are good ones, so recommendations (Kirkpatrick or Longo numbers) welcome.
Answers: He wrote hundreds and I have access to them all in PDF format but it's hard to tell just from looking at them which are good ones, so recommendations (Kirkpatrick or Longo numbers) welcome.
My favorites are the g minor, Longo 128, the f minor, Longo 175, and E major, Longo 430.
I recommend that you listen to a few and decide for yourself. There is a truely excellent CD of Scarlatti sonatas by Pogorelich on DG. It is worth having, even if you don't play any of them. But it is a great collection, beautifully recorded, by a musician that you perhaps would not have expected to make such a superb job of the great Baroque keyboard master.
K. 141
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PcsRl_LIJHA
I don't think that's a sonata, but it's marvelous!