Christoph Ullrich - Complete Piano Sonatas 5 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

You know this phenomenon? You impose restrictions on yourself and watch a thing or do an operation within these limits, and as a result you extend the horizon and find a new world seeming bigger than the whole. It is like a magnifier showing new details hidden under the roughness of the surface. Welcome in the world of 555 Domenico Scarlatti piano sonatas! Most of them have only one movement with one double bar in the middle and two repetitions. In his self-created cosmos Scarlatti moves totally spontaneous, confident and unsystematical. Inside the system he breaks nearly all rules such as 4 bar scheme, style, rhythms, colors, playful like a child that does not know if there are any limits and where they are. However, you have to take the magnifier, otherwise you stay outside on the surface. This is exactly what Christoph Ullrich does. He looks for every sonata and it's character in detail and lives all the playfulness of Scarlatti with enthusiasm. The seventh of the 17-part complete edition shows another chaotic solar system of the Scarlatti universe. Fascinating, weird, glittering and beautiful. Album Tracks 1. E minor K.147 2. Andante a Minor K.148 3. Allegro a Minor K.149 4. Allegro F Major K 150 5. Andante Allegro F Major K.151 6. Allegro G Major K.152 7. Vivo G Major K.153 8. Allegro B Flat Major K.154 9. Allegro B Flat Major K.155 10. Allegro C Major K.156 11. Allegro C Major K.157 12. Anadante C minor K.158 13. Allegro C Major K.159 14. Allegro D Major K.160 15. Allegro D Major K.161 16. Andante - Allegro E Major K.162 17. Allegro E Major K.163 18. Andante Moderato D Major K.164 19. Andante C Major K.165 20. Allegro Ma Non Molto C Major K.166 21. Allegro F Major K.167 22. Vivo F Major K.168 23. Allegro G Major K.169 24. Andante Moderato E Cantabile - Allegro K.170 25. Allegro G Major K.171 26. Allegro B

At the beginning of 2021, a gap was found in the renovations at the church, where the previous volumes of the complete recording of all 555 of Domenico Scarlatti's piano sonatas, with the exception of number 6, were recorded. The present 7th publication with the sonatas K. 236 to K. 265 was thus surprisingly made in the familiar surroundings again. Is it perhaps the finest set to date? We ask ourselves and you, dear listener. Help us! The pianist Christoph Ullrich is always on the lookout for a lively and unconventional engagement with the audience. This leads to interesting and contrasting solo and chamber music programs, but also to the development of new program forms. The thematically very dense musical-literary programs with the BonaNox ensemble, the music theater-related concepts for children's concerts as part of laterna musica and his concert idea InchAlchemy of SoundInch stand for this.

In 2020 the Scarlatti boat was sailing the high seas when suddenly it hit the rocks. And so for the 30 sonatas of part 6, the crew fled like rats from a sinking ship onto dry land and into the back of beyond - where it's too boring even for Corona. Between a stack of grand pianos stored vertically, upright pianos, and in unimaginably dry acoustics, Christoff Ullrich, playing Gerd Finkenstein's familiar and beautiful grand piano, shifted time and space into a bygone world. A world that is perhaps not so distant from our own time as we might think. There were serious diseases everywhere then. Just like nowadays, that didn't stop people from caring about equally important things, such as cheering up a melancholy King! Among other things, this is what Scarlatti was employed for. Dear reader! You are the king who, in the face of the world's crises, threatens to sink into depression. Listen to this double album (for the price of one), full of an endless variety of cheerful, but also often of reflective pieces, and allow it to take your mind off things! Album Tracks 1. Sonatas K. 206 - K. 218 2. Andante E Major K. 206 (L. 257) 3. Allegro E Major K. 207 (L. 371 4. Allegro E Cantabile a Major K. 208 (L. 238) 5. Allegro a Major K. 209 (L. 428) 6. Andante G Major K. 210 (L. 123) 7. Andantino a Major K. 211 (L. 133) 8. Allegro Molto a Major K. 212 (L. 135) 9. Andante D minor K. 213 (L. 108) 10. Allegro Vivo D Major K. 214 (L. 165) 11. Andante E Major K. 215 (L. 323) 12. Allegro E Major K. 216 (L. 273) 13. Andante a Minor K. 217 (L. 42) 14. Vivo a Minor K. 218 (L. 392) 15. Sonatas K. 219 - K. 235 16. Andante a Major K. 219 (L. 393) 17. Allegro a Major K. 220 (L. 342) 18. Allegro a Major K. 221 (L. 259) 19. Vivo a Major K. 222 (L. 309) 20. Allegro D Major K. 223 (L. 214) 21. Vivo D Major K. 224 (L. 268) 22. Allegro C Major K. 225 (L.