Giacomo Scinardo

The ‘Yiruma phenomenon’, which has seen hundreds of millions of album and track sales, stands on the foundations of the South Korean composer and pianist’s 20-year career, which includes film music and sell-out tours throughout Asia, Europe and the US.

This album is entirely dedicated to the piano works of Muzio Clementi, the "father of the piano". Clementi composed almost 110 piano sonatas. Erik Satie, a contemporary of Debussy, later parodied the style of the early sonatas (also "Sonatinen") in his "Sonatine bureaucratique"

This album is entirely dedicated to the piano works of Muzio Clementi, the "father of the piano". Clementi composed almost 110 piano sonatas. Erik Satie, a contemporary of Debussy, later parodied the style of the early sonatas (also "Sonatinen") in his "Sonatine bureaucratique"
For the first double CD of his planned recording of all Clementi piano sonatas, Giacomo Scinardo has selected an attractive selection of well-known (op. 50 / 3, "Didone abbandonata") and unknown, but no less charming, works. Clementi's piano sonatas are still an essential part of the pianistic training of professionals and amateurs. A new recording of these stylistically versatile works is therefore highly welcome.

Piano music has always been important to Bechara El-Khoury: it brings his compositional voice closer to the listener, allowing him to share his feelings more directly than in some of his orchestral works. These works represent different periods of El-Khoury's life, but share a conception aimed at creating atmosphere with expressive states that continually switch between violence, anger, suffering and rebellion, and inquiring explorations of peaceful or dreamlike meditation. Italian concert pianist and recording artist Giacomo Scinardo has appeared as a soloist with many orchestras including the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra and the Kiev Symphony Orchestra. He is a professor at the State Conservatory of Music Trapani, Italy.

The ‘Yiruma phenomenon’, which has seen hundreds of millions of album and track sales, stands on the foundations of the South Korean composer and pianist’s 20-year career, which includes film music and sell-out tours throughout Asia, Europe and the US. Performed by the award-winning virtuoso Giacomo Scinardo, this programme features pieces from a variety of Yiruma’s albums and soundtracks. These include the global hit River Flows in You, and capture the essence of a style that conveys peace and serenity to the listener, from a composer who has declared that he wants his music ‘to be the energy that makes people want to live a better life’.