About This Song
About "Scarlatti, D.: Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, Kk. 9, "Pastorale"" by Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
Scarlatti's 'Pastorale' spins a rustic idyll, but Michelangeli's touch reveals its hidden shadows. The D-minor harmonies ache with a Baroque melancholy, as if a shepherd's pipe were playing at dusk, the melody sweet but the air already cooling toward night.