Julius Asal - Scriabin/Scarlatti

180-gram double LP

Julius Asal presents his first release on Deutsche Grammophon: Scriabin — Scarlatti. The album brings together the music of two composers who are rarely mentioned in the same breath — one a Russian, fascinated by mysticism and its artistic expression, the other a Neapolitan, famous for the liveliness and sophistication of his 555 piano sonatas.

In his dreamlike interpretation, Julius Asal cleverly dissolves the boundaries between works, eras and worldviews. He describes his artistic vision: "Everything is possible in a dream. Even seemingly disparate elements of different times and different densities can combine and form a substance that did not exist before."

Through Asal's two improvisational transitions, the composers appear as travelers through the past, present and future. "Perhaps when you listen you feel the symmetry between the real and the imaginary and feel how the original compositions are brought together through the coupling and my two transitions via the imagination."

The debut album provides a musical look at time, music and society in the context of change.

 

Side A

1. Scriabin: PROLOGUE (4th movement from Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op.6: Funebre)

2. D. Scarlatti: Sonata for keyboard in F minor K. 466

3. Scriabin: From 24 Preludes Op.11 No. 20 in C minor

4. Sonata for keyboard in C minor K.56

5. Sonata for keyboard in C minor K.58

Side B

1-4) Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor (1st movement: Allegro con fuoco / 2nd movement: Adagio / 3rd movement: Presto / 4th movement: Funebre)

Side C

1. D. Scarlatti: Sonata for keyboard in F minor K.238

2. Azal: TRANSITION I

3. No. 11 in B flat minor from 12 Etudes Op.8

4. No. 11 from 24 Preludes Op.11 No. 21 in B flat major

5. D. Scarlatti: Sonata for keyboard in B flat major K.544

6. Scriabin: No. 4 in E flat minor from Five Preludes Op. 16

7. Azal: TRANSITION II

8. 14 in E flat minor from 24 Preludes Op.11

Side D

1. No. 1 in B major from 5 Preludes Op.16

2. No. 6 in B minor from 24 Preludes Op.11

3. D. Scarlatti: Sonata for keyboard in B minor K.87

4. Scriabin: EPILOGUE (4th movement from Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op.6: Funebre)

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