For a sample of Bruce Adolphe's musical inspiration for this week's Piano Puzzler, we turn to a recording by Mikhail Pletnev. He plays the Keyboard Sonata K. (Kirkpatrick) 380 by Domenico Scarlatti.

An unexpected benefit of today's widespread reductions in museum funding is the proliferation of small exhibitions that make austerity an asset. Witness "Kandinsky and the Harmony of Silence: Painting ...

As every clever Scarlatti disc or recital should, this one has had some thought put into the selection and arrangement of the sonatas, rather than just willy-nilly lumping together personal favorites.

Dire predictions about classical music keep coming, and yet so do excellent recordings from all corners of the classical realm — a fact happily reflected in an eclectic mix of sounds that NPR Music's ...

Domenico Scarlatti's dense, explosive little sonatas for harpsichord are some of the most arresting works to come out of the Baroque period. There are more than 500, and most last for only a few ...

Because it offers a unique blend of musical sophistication and emotional light and shade is the usual reply. Which is true, but there are classical pieces which get their power the same way as many ...