Kyuhee Park D. Scarlatti: Sonata K322

This Sonata in A major was written in the final years of Scarlatti s life, along with many others of the 555 in his keyboard output. It is a joyous work, but its optimism is tempered with a maturity, as if the elderly composer wanted to refrain from youthful merriment and any hint of excess at celebration or festivity. Marked Allegro, the work has a more leisurely pacing than that tempo would normally suggest. Moreover, just when its jaunty dancelike manner and Spanish character seem about to turn more col