Montag, 29. April 2024

P 383 (Ralph Kirkpatrick/Christoph Ullrich)

29 04 2024


P 383 (K 493) in G-Dur am Cembalo gespielt von Ralph Kirkpatrick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNmR9T0CvU4


am Klavier gespielt von Christoph Ullrich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV_dPGSL2tA


Ralph Kirkpatrick Biografie

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Kirkpatrick

https://www.mgg-online.com/article?id=mgg07247&v=1.0&rs=mgg07247


Ralph Kirkpatrick Bibliographie & Diskographie

https://library.bu.edu/ralphkirkpatrick


Christoph Ullrich spricht über sein Scarlatti-Projekt - die Aufnahme sämtlicher 555 Sonaten Domenico Scarlattis beim Label Tacet in der Jesus-Christus-Kirche in Berlin/Dahlem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9AIAxH2sFI

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/rhein-main/kultur/christoph-ullrich-und-die-liebe-zu-domenico-scarlatti-17222683.html


Christoph Ullrich Biografie

https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Ullrich-Christoph.htm


Christoph Ullrich Website

http://www.christophullrich.de


 

Samstag, 27. April 2024

P 381 (Béatrice Martin/Christoph Ullrich)

27 04 2024


P 381 (K 480) in D-Durl am Cembalo gespielt von Béatrice Martin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQdmsyxFzjA


am Klavier gespielt von Christoph Ullrich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAT5j9Q1Jvc


Béatrice Martin Biografie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Béatrice_Martin_(harpsichordist)

https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Martin-Beatrice.htm


Béatrice Martin Portrait

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnlKtNP4pAw


Béatrice Martin Website

https://www.beatricemartin-clavecin.com/en/home/


Christoph Ullrich spricht über sein Scarlatti-Projekt - die Aufnahme sämtlicher 555 Sonaten Domenico Scarlattis beim Label Tacet in der Jesus-Christus-Kirche in Berlin/Dahlem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9AIAxH2sFI

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/rhein-main/kultur/christoph-ullrich-und-die-liebe-zu-domenico-scarlatti-17222683.html


Christoph Ullrich Biografie

https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Ullrich-Christoph.htm


Christoph Ullrich Website

http://www.christophullrich.de


 

Donnerstag, 25. April 2024

P 379 (Fernando Valenti/Mikhail Turpanov)

25 04 2024


P 379 (K 470) in G-Dur am Cembalo gespielt von Fernando Valenti

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFGV-sMLVmw


am Klavier gespielt von Mikhail Turpanov

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vWC6j9tsDE


Fernando Valenti Biografie

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Valenti

https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Valenti-Fernando.htm


Fernando Valenti – The Scarlatti Project


In 1951, a young harpsichordist named Fernando Valenti went into the recording studios of Westminster Records to produce a long-playing phonograph record devoted entirely to keyboard music of a relatively obscure Italian-Iberian baroque composer named Domenico Scarlatti. At that time, harpsichordists were still a fairly rare breed, and although Wanda Landowska had courageously recorded several dozen Scarlatti sonatas in the 1930s, his music was still known principally to non-specialists by only a few miniatures played in arrangements as encores at piano recitals.


Valenti's Scarlatti recording was an instant success. More Scarlatti was demanded, and thus began the first major attempt to record the gargantuan cycle of some 550 keyboard sonatas in modern times. (On a few sonatas, he is joined by violinist Julian Olevsky.)


For the next decade, volumes of Scarlatti sonatas played by Valenti continued to be cranked out, 12 sonatas to the LP. Collectors eagerly awaited volumes 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 20… Unfortunately, just as stereo recording was beginning to revolutionize the recording industry, trouble was brewing. The Valenti/Scarlatti Project would not be finished. To this day musicians wonder if Valenti actually managed to record all of the 545 sonatas in the Longo Edition (plus the Menuet in F)—he did not. A finite number of sonatas was released on LP. And, after years of collecting, scrounging, horse trading, and begging, I believe I have assembled all of the music of Domenico Scarlatti that was ever commercially released by Westminster Records (and its heirs Music Guild and MCA), as played by Fernando Valenti: 359 sonatas in all. This series of videos will eventually include all of these recordings


A NOTE ABOUT THE RECORDINGS: These recordings were made over 60 years ago. They have been unavailable commercially for many decades. I have been collecting these now rare recordings for over 30 years by searching used record stores, browsing the Internet, and trading copies with other collectors. I have had to use a variety of sources, including original LPs, open reel tapes, and cassette tapes. In many cases, I had to use second- and third-generation copies of the original LP sources. For these reasons, while the original mono sound of the Westminster LPs was quite good for the 1950s, the sound quality of these recordings varies somewhat from track to track. Many are quite good; some unfortunately are not. I must apologize for some quiet background hum in some sonatas which can be heard between tracks. It is felt that the historical significance of these remarkable performances by Fernando Valenti, the first artist to record nearly all of Scarlatti’s voluminous oeuvre for keyboard, far outweighs the shortcomings of sound quality found in some of the sonatas.


The sonatas have been arranged according to the Longo edition (Ricordi). Valenti’s recording project pre-dates the publication of Ralph Kirkpatrick’s seminal research on Domenico Scarlatti, and his chronological arrangement of the sonatas (including pairing) was essentially unknown at the time. Valenti recorded the sonatas in a more-or-less random order. Still, some ordering system is necessary given the scope of the project, and it seemed appropriate to use the ordering system known to Valenti (and used as identification on the LPs themselves), that of the original Longo edition. Those familiar with Kirkpatrick's numbering system can easily cross-check the numbers with charts readily available in his book and on the internet.


Vol.1 Longo 1 – 28

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHWAe6Emn9Y


Vol.2 Longo 33 – 75

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4AJMC284aY&t=39s


Vol.3 Longo 78 – 140

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8DE3VEL77A&t=31s


Vol.4 Longo 151 – 199

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqHv4V1q5AM&t=44s


Vol.5 Longo 200 – 257

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzqvfUKs1ow&t=21s


Vol.6 Longo 261 – 319

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS9NJH8Bao8&t=30s


Vol.7 Longo 320 – 379

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skS0hUxBI5c&t=4722s


Vol.8 Longo 380 – 444

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjMWOpbhcEA&t=171s


Vol.9 Longo 445 – 488

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXumryw-YXA&t=37s


Vol.10 Longo 492 – 500, Longo Supplemento 2 - 41

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol87lGJ6iqM&t=93s


Mikhail Turpanov Biografie

http://tch15.medici.tv/en/artist/mikhail-turpanov


Mikhail Turpanov on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/mikhail.turpanov/


 

Sonntag, 21. April 2024

P 375 (Richard Lester/Sonia Rubinsky)

21 04 2024


P 375 (K 441) in B-Dur am Cembalo gespielt von Richard Lester

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDjO1itq5c0


am Klavier gespielt von Sonia Rubinsky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uViAcd9LzFE


Richard Lester Biografie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lester_(harpsichordist)


Richard Lester Website

https://www.richardlester.org.uk


Richard Lester – Scarlatti : The Complete Sonatas

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nyxnzrq_WC9PnNkzf2XrdpKlGC0j-yd8o

also on 9 CD Set by Nimbus Records, NI 1719, ©2012


Sonia Rubinsky Biografie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Rubinsky

https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Rubinsky-Sonia.htm


Sonia Rubinsky on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/soniarubinskypianist


Sonia Rubinsky Website

https://www.soniarubinsky.com


 

Dienstag, 9. April 2024

P 363 (Fernando Valenti /Maurizio Zaccaria)

09 04 2024


P 363 (K 267) in B-Dur am Cembalo gespielt von Fernando Valenti 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6simE6IMkc


am Klavier gespielt von Maurizio Zaccaria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksL8w2nt4aY


Fernando Valenti Biografie

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Valenti

https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Valenti-Fernando.htm


Fernando Valenti – The Scarlatti Project


In 1951, a young harpsichordist named Fernando Valenti went into the recording studios of Westminster Records to produce a long-playing phonograph record devoted entirely to keyboard music of a relatively obscure Italian-Iberian baroque composer named Domenico Scarlatti. At that time, harpsichordists were still a fairly rare breed, and although Wanda Landowska had courageously recorded several dozen Scarlatti sonatas in the 1930s, his music was still known principally to non-specialists by only a few miniatures played in arrangements as encores at piano recitals.


Valenti's Scarlatti recording was an instant success. More Scarlatti was demanded, and thus began the first major attempt to record the gargantuan cycle of some 550 keyboard sonatas in modern times. (On a few sonatas, he is joined by violinist Julian Olevsky.)


For the next decade, volumes of Scarlatti sonatas played by Valenti continued to be cranked out, 12 sonatas to the LP. Collectors eagerly awaited volumes 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 20… Unfortunately, just as stereo recording was beginning to revolutionize the recording industry, trouble was brewing. The Valenti/Scarlatti Project would not be finished. To this day musicians wonder if Valenti actually managed to record all of the 545 sonatas in the Longo Edition (plus the Menuet in F)—he did not. A finite number of sonatas was released on LP. And, after years of collecting, scrounging, horse trading, and begging, I believe I have assembled all of the music of Domenico Scarlatti that was ever commercially released by Westminster Records (and its heirs Music Guild and MCA), as played by Fernando Valenti: 359 sonatas in all. This series of videos will eventually include all of these recordings


A NOTE ABOUT THE RECORDINGS: These recordings were made over 60 years ago. They have been unavailable commercially for many decades. I have been collecting these now rare recordings for over 30 years by searching used record stores, browsing the Internet, and trading copies with other collectors. I have had to use a variety of sources, including original LPs, open reel tapes, and cassette tapes. In many cases, I had to use second- and third-generation copies of the original LP sources. For these reasons, while the original mono sound of the Westminster LPs was quite good for the 1950s, the sound quality of these recordings varies somewhat from track to track. Many are quite good; some unfortunately are not. I must apologize for some quiet background hum in some sonatas which can be heard between tracks. It is felt that the historical significance of these remarkable performances by Fernando Valenti, the first artist to record nearly all of Scarlatti’s voluminous oeuvre for keyboard, far outweighs the shortcomings of sound quality found in some of the sonatas.


The sonatas have been arranged according to the Longo edition (Ricordi). Valenti’s recording project pre-dates the publication of Ralph Kirkpatrick’s seminal research on Domenico Scarlatti, and his chronological arrangement of the sonatas (including pairing) was essentially unknown at the time. Valenti recorded the sonatas in a more-or-less random order. Still, some ordering system is necessary given the scope of the project, and it seemed appropriate to use the ordering system known to Valenti (and used as identification on the LPs themselves), that of the original Longo edition. Those familiar with Kirkpatrick's numbering system can easily cross-check the numbers with charts readily available in his book and on the internet.


Vol.1 Longo 1 – 28

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHWAe6Emn9Y


Vol.2 Longo 33 – 75

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4AJMC284aY&t=39s


Vol.3 Longo 78 – 140

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8DE3VEL77A&t=31s


Vol.4 Longo 151 – 199

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqHv4V1q5AM&t=44s


Vol.5 Longo 200 – 257

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzqvfUKs1ow&t=21s


Vol.6 Longo 261 – 319

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS9NJH8Bao8&t=30s


Vol.7 Longo 320 – 379

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skS0hUxBI5c&t=4722s


Vol.8 Longo 380 – 444

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjMWOpbhcEA&t=171s


Vol.9 Longo 445 – 488

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXumryw-YXA&t=37s


Vol.10 Longo 492 – 500, Longo Supplemento 2 - 41

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol87lGJ6iqM&t=93s


Maurizio Zaccaria on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/GrittaniZaccariaDuo/


Maurizio Zaccaria Website

https://mauriziozaccaria.weebly.com


 

Montag, 8. April 2024

P 362 (Trevor David Pinnock/Kamil Tokarski)

08 04 2024


P 362 (K 520) in G-Dur am Cembalo gespielt von Trevor David Pinnock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olA-0WyHkiQ


am Klavier gespielt von Kamil Tokarski

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6REhWRmMzE


Trevor David Pinnock Biografie

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Pinnock


Trevor David Pinnock on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/TrevorPinnockMusic/


Trevor David Pinnock Website

https://trevorpinnock.com


Kamil Tokarski Biografie

https://kamiltokarski.com/#profile


Kamil Tokarski on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/tokpianostudio/


Kamil Tokarski Website

https://kamiltokarski.com

https://www.taipeipiano.com