SUDBIN, YEVGENY

De Russische Pianist Yevgeny Sudbin (Sint Petersburg 1980), nam tien jaar geleden muziek van Domenico Scarlatti voor BIS op, dat door luisteraars en critici met veel enthousiasme werd ontvangen. Sudbin wordt geroemd om zijn sublieme interpretaties van enkele van de 555 sonates op de moderne piano. Scarlatti schreef de werken voor Maria Magdalena Barbara, de latere Spaanse koningin, voor klavecimbel, orgel en de eerste pianoforte. Sudbin kiest tien jaar later opnieuw 18 Sonates uit, die hij met grote passie uitvoert. In een uitvoerige toelichting vertelt Yevgeny Sudbin over zijn fascinatie voor deze prachtige miniatuurtjes, die door zoveel verschillende karakters worden gekenmerkt. Het is gewoonweg genieten van het prachtige spel. Luister maar eens naar de kerkklokken, trompetten of gewoon het zonnige Mediterrane landschap.


Scarlatti: 18 Sonatas


Scarlatti, D:
Keyboard Sonata K417 in D minor
Keyboard Sonata K208 in A major
Keyboard Sonata K159 in C major 'La caccia'
Keyboard Sonata K56 in C minor
Keyboard Sonata K213 in D minor
Keyboard Sonata K125 in G major
Keyboard Sonata K373 in G minor
Keyboard Sonata K119 in D major
Keyboard Sonata K69 in F minor
Keyboard Sonata K425 in G major
Keyboard Sonata K29 in D major
Keyboard Sonata K99 in C minor
Keyboard Sonata K12 in G minor
Keyboard Sonata K479 in D major
Keyboard Sonata K9 in D minor
Keyboard Sonata K318 in F sharp major
Keyboard Sonata K141 in D minor
Keyboard Sonata K32 in D minor


Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)







With the 2005 release of his first recording for BIS Records, Yevgeny Sudbin catapulted into the pages of the international music press. The disc was a Scarlatti recital that prompted reviewers worldwide to compare the then 24-year old pianist in the most flattering terms to Scarlatti experts such as Horowitz and Pletnev. It went on to receive a long list of distinctions, including an Editor's Choice in Gramophone, where the accompanying review described it as 'among the finest, certainly most enjoyable of all Scarlatti recitals'. Since then, Sudbin and BIS have enjoyed a highly successful collaboration, resulting in numerous acclaimed recordings of both solo programmes and concertos. To celebrate the past 10 years, a new Scarlatti recording seemed the obvious choice for an anniversary present - to ourselves, and of course to all Sudbin fans and Scarlatti lovers. Said and done: Sudbin met up with Marion Schwebel, the recording producer with whom he has collaborated from the very beginning, for recording sessions in the silken acoustics of St George's in Bristol. The results can be heard on this new disc: 18 sonatas selected from the total of 555 - a collection of a striking, even bewildering, variety. Through it all, Sudbin guides us with authority but also obvious relish as he brings to life elements which his own liner notes describes as 'church bells and gunshots (K119), howls in the streets (K479), trumpets appearing on the horizon (K159), head-spinning dances (K425) but also a wonderful sense of humour (K125) - as well scenes as melancholic, lean and desiccated as a sun-baked Mediterranean landscape (K99).'