Gathering Music Selection This Sunday, by Brian Zayman

Of the 555 short sonatas written by Domenico Scarlatti many are in certain colors: sad, majestic, happy, processional, easy, virtuosic, simple, complex, or weird. The two for this Sunday, K 94 and K 422, are the last type. K 94 sounds like a calm minuet mostly except for a moment of harmonic strangeness toward the end. And K 422's form is very weird for its day. Almost none of its parts have any similarity to each other, with one crawling up the keyboard, another skipping down, another zooming up again, and each half ending suddenly with playful skipping like pronking goats.  But it's Scarlatti's genius that makes it work.