Today we celebrate Domenico Scarlatti- a true baroque legend, born in Naples on this day 339 years ago. He composed an extraordinary number of works, including 555 keyboard sonatas. Many of these land themselves beautifully on the modern guitar. D minor Sonata K. 32 is magical in its simplicity and expression. It’s a personal favourite and it features as an opening track on my latest album BAROQUE for Sony Classical. To mark the anniversary here is a short video clip filmed at the glorious Blenh

Martha Masters - Scarlatti Sonata

Domenico Scarlatti - Sonate K 1 - Theodor Milkov

Domenico Scarlatti - Sonate in D minor - Presti Lagoya

Domenico Scarlatti - Sonata K239 - Roberto Plano