Barroque pieces combo (JS Bach and Domenico Scarlatti)

[presto agitato]

Hello

What do you think about this combo:

Scarlatti's sonata in c minor K.11 followed immediately by JS Bach Rondeaux from partita 2.

Very nice. Is it not?

[birba]

To me, it is not.    There's something about mixing Scarlatti and Bach that just doesn't sound right to my ear.  Maybe if you did a whole concert dividing it in two, maybe.  The first part Scarlatti and the second part Bach?  But alternating pieces?  I don't know... 

[pianist1976]

I agree with Birba (in fact, I don't know if I did it consciously or unconsciously but I also never ever player Bach and Scarlatti both in the same recital). There's also another thing that doesn't convince me about the two pieces you chose: same tonality and same character, there's almost no contrast between them  

[steviesteps]

No no, The rondo is no good on its own! I say swerve the Scarlatti and stick the Capriccio from the partita at the end

[thalbergmad]

It is a marriage made in hell.

Thal

[presto agitato]

There's also another thing that doesn't convince me about the two pieces you chose: same tonality and same character, there's almost no contrast between them  

Same tonality yes, same character no.

 
The sonata can be played slowly and sostenuto and the rondeaux fastly and very dynamically.