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This A minor sonata K.382 by Scarlatti feels crisp and incisive, often percussive with sharp contrasts between restless passages and more detached replies. Technically, you will need your Connaissance des formes (3.6/5) — here that means clearly shaping the binary form and its repeats so phrases make structural sense — and attention to Ornements baroque (3.1/5), which requires executing ornaments with rhythmic precision and folding them seamlessly into the hand’s motion. Placed in the Baroque period, it belongs to Scarlatti’s large body of keyboard sonatas, written for harpsichord but frequently performed on piano while retaining a sense of dance and improvisatory gesture. I do not give a reference recording out of caution.