Domenico Scarlatti – Sonata in D minor, K 64/L.58/P.33

I have a bunch of earnings reports to read and as I work from home, I can’t get Scarlatti’s Sonata in D minor, K.64 / L. 58 / P. 33 out of my head. He wrote it sometime around the year 1740 and it was printed in Volume II of a book of keyboard sonatas he published in 1742. Harpsichord, clavichord, piano, guitar … it just sounds so catchy no matter the instrument on which it is performed.

What is crazy is how simple it is. I mean, look at the sheet music … It’s nothing so complex as La Marche de Scythes, which is a masterpiece, or one of my favorite pieces of music of the past 500+ years, Domine, ad adjuvandum me festina. Yet, it has its own charm.