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She performed at local churches and won second place in a statewide contest with a Scarlatti sonata at age 13.

Her Bach, Scarlatti and Mozart are bold, vivid and rhythmically arresting.

Small says the musical conversation within the Scarlatti piece was something he could just manage with one hand, preserving its virtuosity while necessarily excising some notes.

Since then, two rarities have followed: Scarlatti’s “Il Primo Omicidio” and, this past fall, Campra’s “Idoménée,” far more obscure than Mozart’s later “Idomeneo.”

He performed and recorded now-standard accounts of Bach’s “Goldberg Variations,” as well as a comprehensive survey of Domenico Scarlatti’s sonatas.