Christoph Ullrich - Domenico Scarlatti: Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol. 12 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Antwerp Symphony Orchestra and Philippe Herreweghe have enjoyed a close relationship since 1997, and the Ghent conductor regularly conducts and records with the Flanders orchestra. After the Second and Fourth Symphonies (LPH032), they are continuing their exploration of Schumann's symphonies InchThe symphony has given me many hours of joy. I often give thanks to the beneficent spirit that enabled me to complete such an important work so easily and in such a short timeInch says the tormented composer. He wrote his first symphony, InchSpringInch, in just four days and orchestrated it in three weeks. The third, known as the InchRhenishInch, was inspired by a day Schumann spent with his wife Clara in the Rhineland.

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.