He has expanded the repertoire for the guitar through transcriptions of works by Bach, Scarlatti, Haydn, Mozart, Paganini, and others, as well as through commissions from various composers including Luciano Berio, Leonardo Balada, Robert Beaser, Wiliam Bolcom, Xavier Montsalvatge, Nicholas Maw, George Rochberg and Kurt Schwertsik.
His recordings of Bach (two outstanding early ones for the Lyrichord Discs label) and Scarlatti (well over twenty LPs for Westminster Records) were highly regarded, and he was regularly mentioned in the pages of National Review by William F. Buckley Jr..
She released the CD "Live Piano Solo" (2007) with works by Liszt, Bach–Busoni, Rachmaninov, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Silvestri and "Piano Recital" in 2009 (Ed. Casa Radio) with works by Scarlatti, Chopin, Schubert, Liszt, Schubert-Liszt, Skriabin, Rachmaninov, Bartók.
The music of Italian composers, such as Corelli, Scarlatti, and Vivaldi, was studied or transcribed by many other composers of the day, most notably Bach.
Their five album releases to date have included works by Handel, Scarlatti, Isaac Albéniz and Ástor Piazzolla.
The ballet, written in a light and frothy style, is in turns reminiscent of Mozart, Scarlatti, Franck, Tchaikovsky, and Stravinsky, mirroring the style of Saint-Saëns's private composition The Carnival of the Animals.
Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo, Solistes Européens (Luxembourg), Teatro Sociale di Rovigo, ISCM Buchartest, Festival Pergolesi-Spontini (Jesi), Nuova Orchestra Scarlatti (Naples), Progetto Sonora (Cologne), Todi Music Fest (Todi), Klangspectrum (Villach); and they are regularly performed worldwide in contemporary music festivals.
They have notably recorded masses and other choral works by Schubert, Mozart, Scarlatti and others.
This method was a favorite in compositions by Scarlatti and Handel especially at the beginning of a piece, even when not forming a fugue.
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Handel, Scarlatti, and Bach all belonged to a tradition of solo keyboard improvisation.
As a performer he has expanded the solo repertoire of the Portuguese guitar with transcriptions of works by J.S.Bach, S.L.Weiss, D.Scarlatti, Seixas, S.de Murcia, R.de Visée and many others, as well as given first performances of original pieces by other contemporary composers.
Katin made his debut at the Wigmore Hall on 13 December 1948 where the programme included works by Scarlatti, Mozart, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin and Chopin.
Charles wanted to endow Naples with a new and larger theatre to replace the old, dilapidated, and too-small Teatro San Bartolomeo of 1621, which had served the city well, especially after Scarlatti had moved there in 1682 and had begun to create an important opera centre which existed well into the 1700s.
Lorca, himself a composer, conceived this play with musical interludes (Scarlatti harpsichord sonatas) as well as songs on stage.
He followed Scarlatti to Naples and Rome and, later in life, he published an edition of Scarlatti's sonatas for harpsichord which led to a "Scarlatti cult" in England.