2 Scarlatti Sonatas (K. 24, and K. 9)

[furiouzpianist]

I am preparing these for my Sunday recital. I haven't played them in a while!

[iratior]

Well, I never heard of anyone's doing Scarlatti molto rubato before.  But I'm not a stickler for total tradition;  if I were, I would insist that Scarlatti be played on a harpsichord.  It does sound good on a harpsichord, but my aim would be to try to make the modern audience react the way the 18th century audience presumably reacted to Scarlatti's pyrotechnics, and for that, a piano is useful;  a harpsichord,  not indispensable.  I don't think I would feel "authorized" to put so much rubato into baroque music, though.

[starstruck5]

I loved the K9 especially. I hate the harpsichord and I suspect that if Scarlatti was somehow transported alive into the 21st century -he would  no longer write for that dusty old relic -The piano is capable of so much more expression -and you are right in my opinion to play this music like a human being and not a baroque typist. 

Hope the recital went well!

[andhow04]

I am preparing these for my Sunday recital. I haven't played them in a while!

i love k24 and have played it many times, i actually dont care for the rubato in the beginning, bnecause the music is to me like a brass fanfare. if you dont use rubato there, you can contrast by using it somewhere else.  in a way, a lot of places where you use rubato or dont, i would have done it in reverse. the parts that have more gusto i think are weaker with rubato, and the parts that are more cantabile are better with it.  you seem to do the reverse tho in my opinion! at least in the first half.
i think there is a wrong note during the first leap section? i heard it in the repeat as well.. i have to check the score...perhaps we use a different edition...
overall i like it! it has a grand feeling, not at all thin or dry.