Scarlatti Sonata in C major, K. 513

One more Scarlatti sonata to my repertoir...this Sonata opens with a theme based on a Neapolitan Christmas song, the music here divulging a simple beauty, more cosmopolitan than Neapolitan in its child-like character and relatively simple writing. There follows a lively, dance-like episode seemingly of peasant celebrat......ory character, full of color and joy. Next, the character of the music changes radically, the mood turning animated in the Presto section, almost manic in its joyous busyness, in its hyperactive drive.

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• Scarlatti
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• K513
• K.513
• Pastorale
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