Scarlatti: 18 Sonatas Yevgeny Sudbin

• 1 Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, K.417/L.462/P.40 03:37
• 2 Keyboard Sonata in A Major, K.208/L.238/P.315 03:53
• 3 Keyboard Sonata in C Major, K.159/L.104/P.418 02:29
• 4 Keyboard Sonata in C Minor, K.56/L.356/P.50 03:36
• 5 Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, K.213/L.108/P.288 07:11
• 6 Keyboard Sonata in G Major, K.125/L.487/P.152 02:12
• 7 Keyboard Sonata in G Minor, K.373/L.98/P.158 02:12
• 8 Keyboard Sonata in D Major, K.119/L.415/P.217: Allegro 05:16
• 9 Keyboard Sonata in F Minor, K.69/L.382/P.42 05:09
• 10 Keyboard Sonata in G Major, K.425/L.333/P.426 02:46
• 11 Keyboard Sonata in D Major, K.29/L.461/P.85 05:03
• 12 Keyboard Sonata in C Minor, K.99/L.317/P.135 07:02
• 13 Keyboard Sonata in G Minor, K.12/L.489/P.68 03:05
• 14 Keyboard Sonata in D Major, K. 479/L.S16/P.380 04:32
• 15 Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, K.9/L.413/P.65 02:43
• 16 Keyboard Sonata in F-Sharp Major, K.318/L.31/P.302 06:06
• 17 Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, K.141/L.422/P.271 03:08
• 18 Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, K.32/L.423/P.14 02:29
• Total Runtime 01:12:29

Info for Scarlatti: 18 Sonatas

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 striking, even bewildering, variety. Through it all, Sudbin guides us with authority and zeal as he brings to life elements which his own liner notes describe 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 as scenes as melancholic, lean and desiccated as a sun-baked Mediterranean landscape (K99).'

Yevgeny Sudbin, piano

Yevgeny Sudbin
has been hailed by The Telegraph as ‘potentially one of the greatest pianists of the 21st century’. As BIS Records’ only exclusive artist, all of Yevgeny’s recordings have met with critical acclaim and are regularly featured as CD of the Month by BBC Music Magazine or Editor’s Choice by Gramophone. His Scriabin recording was awarded CD of the Year by The Telegraph and received the MIDEM Classical Award for Best Solo Instrument Recording at Cannes. It was described by Gramophone as ‘a disc in a million’ while the International Record Review stated that Yevgeny’s Rachmaninov recording ‘confirms him as one of the most important pianistic talents of our time’.

Yevgeny performs regularly in many of the world's finest venues and concert series, both in recital and with orchestra, including Tonhalle Zurich; Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall (International Piano Series) and Wigmore Hall (London Pianoforte Series) in London; Concertgebouw (Meesterpianisten, Amsterdam); Avery Fisher Hall (New York) and Davies Symphony Hall (San Francisco). Recent engagements and tours have included orchestras such as New Zealand Symphony, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, Lucerne Symphony, Czech Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. His performance of Rachmaninov's Concerto No.1 at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall was described by The Telegraph as ‘sublime.’

Yevgeny has collaborated with some of the world’s most influential conductors, such as Neeme Järvi, Charles Dutoit, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Osmo Vänskä, Hannu Lintu, Tugan Sokhiev, Mark Wigglesworth, Andrew Litton, Dmitri Slobodeniouk and Vassily Sinaisky. His love of chamber music has led him to collaborate with many other musicians including Alexander Chaushian, Ilya Gringolts, Hilary Hahn, Julia Fischer, the Chilingirian Quartet and many others. Appearances at festivals include Aspen, Mostly Mozart, Tivoli, Nohant, La Roque d'Antheron, Menton and Verbier.

Recent and future engagements include concerts and recording projects with the Tapiola Sinfonetta and Osmo Vänskä, Netherlands Philharmonic and Ivor Bolton, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Michael Seal, Rotterdam Philharmonic and Stanislav Kochanovsky, and extensive touring in North America. He also returns to many recital stages, including the Wigmore Hall, Moscow International House of Music and Serate Musicali (Milan).

Yevgeny was born in St Petersburg in 1980 and began his musical studies at the Specialist Music School of the St Petersburg Conservatory with Lyubov Pevsner at the age of 5. He emigrated with his family to Germany in 1990 where he continued his studies at Hanns Eisler Musikhochschule (Galina Ivanzova). In 1997 Yevgeny moved to London to study at the Purcell School and subsequently the Royal Academy of Music where he completed his Bachelor and Masters degrees under Christopher Elton. He was supported by the Hattori and Pulvermacher Foundations as well as The Wall Trust, of which he is now Vice President. In 2010, he was awarded a Fellowship by Academy and is now a Visiting Professor.

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