Julius Asal - Scriabin – Scarlatti (2024)
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Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon
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Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915) and Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757) prove to be engaging and complementary characters in the hands of German pianist Julius Asal, whose debut Deutsche Grammophon album is set for release in all formats on 3 May 2024. Scriabin – Scarlatti is built from works by two composers rarely mentioned in the same breath, the one a Russian absorbed by mysticism and its expression in the arts, the other a Neapolitan noted for the panache of his 555 keyboard sonatas. The album creates a dreamlike meditation in which the boundaries between pieces, eras and states of mind fade away. “Everything’s possible in a dream”, says the 27-year-old artist, who has a rare talent for innovative programme curation. “Even seemingly different materials from different times and with different densities can merge and create a new substance that’s never existed before. That’s how I felt while I was recording the music of Scriabin and Scarlatti.”Tracklist:
Scriabin – Scarlatti interleaves Scriabin’s Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 6, which Asal has loved since he was a small boy, a selection of early preludes and one of the Etudes, Op. 8 with six of Scarlatti’s sonatas, the melancholy Sonata in F minor, K.466 and wistful Sonata in B flat major, K.544 among them. Explaining his choice of these more introspective works, Asal says they needed to fit in with his overall vision: “I wanted the whole album to be a deep psychological experience, which grows in unexpected directions and holds the listener with every step.”
“It was difficult to pick from all the Scarlatti sonatas,” he adds. “But there’s a limit to what we could fit on the album and I wanted to include all the repeated sections and make sure they sounded different the second time round. You never say ‘I love you’ the same way twice!”
Asal uses the Quasi niente section from the final movement (Funèbre) of Scriabin’s Sonata as a structural element in his programme. It both opens and closes the album, as well as appearing in its original context. “The idea of anticipating the Quasi niente emerged partly from the desire to create a déjà vu effect when it reappears in the sonata,” he explains. As prologue, it resolves harmonically into Scarlatti’s K.466; as epilogue, it completes the circle but takes on “a completely different significance”.
He also created a pair of improvisatory Transitions specially for the recording, using them as linking components in an album that imagines his chosen composers as travellers through time past, present and future. “Perhaps people will sense the symmetry of the real and the imaginary – the original compositions and how they’ve been brought together with the programming and my two Transitions by an act of imagination.”
Having used two different Steinway grand pianos for the album, Julius Asal also decided to record a selection of the Scriabin and Scarlatti pieces on an upright piano. The instrument, he recalls, “was from DDR times and not easy to control”, but it allowed him to find a new perspective on the music and uncover unexpected facets in it.
01 - IV. Funebre (Prologue)
02 - Keyboard Sonata in F Minor, Kk. 466
03 - No. 20, Appassionato in C Minor
04 - Keyboard Sonata in C Minor, Kk. 56
05 - Keyboard Sonata in C Minor, Kk. 58
06 - Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 6: I. Allegro con fuoco
07 - Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 6: II. (Adagio)
08 - Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 6: III. Presto
09 - Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 6: IV. Funebre
10 - Keyboard Sonata in F Minor, Kk. 238
11 - TRANSITION I
12 - No. 11 in B-Flat Minor
13 - No. 21, Andante in B-Flat Major
14 - Keyboard Sonata in B-Flat Major, Kk. 544
15 - No. 4 in E-Flat Minor
16 - TRANSITION II
17 - No. 14, Presto in E-Flat Minor
18 - No. 1 in B Major
19 - No. 6, Allegro in B Minor
20 - Keyboard Sonata in B Minor, Kk. 87
21 - IV. Funebre (Epilogue)
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