About This Song
About "D. Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonata in E Major, Kk. 531" by Alexis Weissenberg
Scarlatti's E major sonata is a brisk, bright conversation—but Weissenberg hears the nerves beneath. The music skips and darts like a bird in a gilded cage, its joy tinged with a restless urgency. Each phrase is a door opening onto another, and the cumulative effect is both exhilarating and quietly claustrophobic: a celebration with a shadow at its heart.