Connections
Listening to a sonata by Scarlatti, I'm struck by its strangeness, it even goes completely wild and you wonder if a small animal has not landed on the harpsichord. Jean Rondeau plays Scarlatti sonata K175 in A minor And always still the little cells repeating themselves - I learned today, thanks to that wonderful programme on Scarlatti on the BBC, that Scarlatti liked to gamble. There is some madness in gambling, some obsession, some intensity. Composer of the week: Scarlatti, BBC programme with Kate Molleson Ceci explique peut-être cela, as we would say in French, this maybe explains the wildness in the music. Added to that, living for the remaining 25 years of his life in a dark palace, the Escorial with a King suffering from Melancholia, Philip V of Spain probably did not help. This is a connection though, not a causality. An...