Goldberg Variations By Andras Schiff At Jsbach.org J.S. Bach Goldberg Variations by andras schiff The Hungarian pianist andras schiff's approach to Bach's music is light and delicate, as displayed in this version of http://www.jsbach.org/goldberg.html
Extractions: or Conductor: Andras Schiff Instrumentation: Piano Individual Works: Goldberg Variations, BWV Format: Compact Disc Record Label: London Catalog Number: Year Released/Recorded: Total Playing Time: Comments: Jan Hanford This ranks as on of the most astonishing piano recordings I have ever heard. Andras Schiff manages to make a piano sound as delicate as a harpsichord. He makes intelligent and musical choices in his interpretation. When playing the repeats he often adds ornamentation or, in a couple cases, plays and octave higher or an octave lower. My only complaint about the cd is it is divided into 6 tracks, and each variation is not indexed. Of all the recordings of the Goldberg Variations I've heard, this is my favourite. Note: This particular edition is out of print but has been reissued on Penguin Classics. Freddie Sng said: The Hungarian pianist Andras Schiff's approach to Bach's music is light and delicate, as displayed in this version of the Goldberg Variations. Under his hands, the piano retains its sonority and tone colour, and the set of variations flow with fluidity. He observes all repeats faithfully but is still able to capture the entire piece in one CD. A thoroughly enjoyable performance. As always in the case of Decca, the digital recording is outstandingly vivid and realistic. Ricky Der said: A splendid recording of the Goldberg Variations by one of the most inspired Bach players today. Schiff always finds a way to bring out the highest subtleties, and with great imagination. For instance, you will notice that he does not perform the repeats literally, but will vary in the repeat small figurations - a chord played broken starting from the top note will be played in reverse sequence in the repeat.
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Extractions: As a pianist, its nearly impossible not to admire Andras Schiffs clear, relaxed way of playing the piano. His thorough, carefully considered approach to music making even extends to the design of his programs: he recently played the complete French and English Suites of Bach in New York, and his Sunday afternoon recital at Berkeleys Zellerbach Hall presented a pleasingly balanced arrangement of four familiar works The Janácek Sonata (From the Streets) framed by the two Sonatas from Beethovens Op. 27 (both marked quasi una fantasia) on the concerts first half, followed by the half-hour long Schumann Fantasy, Op. 17 after intermission. Schiff played both Beethoven Sonatas with excellent control of a wide range of dynamics and articulation. He gave frequent attention to motivic and melodic lines played by the left hand. His intelligent approach to the music was reflected in an occasional unusual touch: the pedalled blurring of harmonies in the opening movement of Op. 27 #2 (this was possibly his interpretation of Beethovens senza sordino marking), the almost non-existent between-movement pauses that transformed the Schumann Fantasy into one long musical arch, and a version of the Fantasys third movement that included a momentary return,just before the final bars of the piece, to the the quotation from Beethovens An die Ferne Geliebte that concludes the first movement. Its all the more remarkable that Schiff acheives playing of this high level of refinement with such great ease and obvious enjoyment.
Schiff Reviews.htm Generally speaking, the pianist has the strongest musical voice TELDEC DISCOGRAPHY.DECCA DISCOGRAPHY. ECM DISCOGRAPHY. VIDEOS. andras schiff. HOME PAGE. http://www.terryharrison.force9.co.uk/schiff reviews.htm
Extractions: ANDRÁS SCHIFF CD REVIEWS Haydn Piano Sonatas The Times - 28 January 1999 András Schiff's splendid vision "Schiff's playing fleshes out his own informed and invariably wise decisions on questions of articulation, accentuation and embellishment. And, thanks to Teldec's immaculately engineered recordings, these two discs reveal beautifully Schiff's characteristic sensivity to touch, honouring the sound of the pianos of Haydn's time with their shallower keys and smaller hammers.... few can play the innocent as aptly and convincingly as Schiff. He does it delightfully in the G minor and C major Sonatas; and his sustained fluency brings splendour to the grander visions of No 33 in C minor and No 62 in E flat." Hilary Finch Gramophone - May 1999 "András Schiff is one of the few top-flight pianists around who has consistently championed Haydn, not only the sonatas but also the glorious late piano trios...This new two disc set, offering the last five sonatas plus four of the finest earlier ones, has been worth the wait. Schiff is one of the most cultivated, fastidious and articulate of modern pianists...His 'centred' tone and limpid, subtly coloured soft playing are a constant delight, as is his variety of articulation and nuance. He plays all the marked repeats, embellishing and dramatizing them as appropriate; and he is keenly alive to Haydn's manipulations of silence, timing pauses and fermatas with an ear for their exact comic or dramatic significance.... Schiff plays the opening of the little G major, HobXVI/40, with graceful simplicity...he times and inflects the finale deliciously. As for the great C minor Sonata, Schiff's is one of the most searching readings I have ever heard: the outer movements combine his characteristic refinement of detail with bold dramatic contrasts and a terrific overall sweep. The finale...is also more impassioned and disturbing, rising (especially in the repeat) to a final climax of desperate intensity...
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Extractions: Andras Schiff was born in Budapest, and born a pianist. He gave his first recital aged nine. Schiff studied at the Liszt Academy in Budapest as well as private tutoring with George Malcolm giving his professional performances in Budapest in 1972. These initial concerts were followed by tours and competition entries all over the world. He came equal third in the Leeds Piano Competition in 1975 and his other conquest includes the Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow in 1974. Settling in the West in 1979, Schiff continues to perform with orchestras around the world. His light but intelligent touch is particularly well suited to Mozart, and his concerto and chamber recordings are highly regarded; he has also played the Bach '48' to critical acclaim.
Extractions: Famous Hungarian pianist Andras Schiff refused to play to the rings of mobile phones, peeps of watches, and cough and sneezes of the audience as he was performing at the Edinburgh Art Festival. Mr. Schiff was trying to play Mozarts Fantasy in h-minor but could not concentrate when mobile phones started ringing in the hall. He walked off the stage after the 3d ring, having recommended the audience to properly clear their throats during the break. Some critics, who were present at the concert, admit that the audience turned out especially noisy there. Children normally behave much more quietly.
Double And Triple Concertos By Andras Schiff At Jsbach.org Der Hintergrund eines oft Verkannten András schiff stellt im 4. Kammerkonzert Chopin vor. Ganz anders der ungari sche pianist András schiff(Jahrgang 1953). http://www.jsbach.org/doubleand.html
Extractions: Released 1998 Comments: Simon Crouch said: Those of you who enjoy hearing Bach's keyboard works played on the piano and particularly those of you who enjoy Andras Schiff's recordings of the solo keyboard concerti will be glad to hear that he has teamed up with Peter Serkin and Bruno Camino to record the double and triple keyboard concerti (BWV 1060-1064). Schiff is also joined by Aurele Nicolet (flute) and Yuuko Shiokawa (violin) in the triple concerto BWV 1044. This is a Decca CD with catalogue number 455 761-2 and has just appeared in the UK and is a worthy partner to Schiff's solo concerti recording. Jan Hanford said: An important addition to the catalog of recordings of J.S. Bach's keyboard concerti. Schiff plays with his usual vibrant clarity and unsurpassed sensitivity to phrasing and the articulation of the counterpoint. He is, by far, my favourite pianist for Bach. This recording nicely complements his earlier recording of the solo keyboard concerti. His teaming up with Peter Serkin and Bruno Camino for these multiple-keyboard concerti is a perfect match. The performance is unified and energetic; it's Bach at his liveliest! Highly recommended.
Schiller Institute Andras Schiff Interview FIDELIO Magazine SCHILLER INSTITUTE Interview with pianist andras schiff The beautyof Bach is the freedom he gives us! . This interview is reprinted http://www.schillerinstitute.org/fid_02-06/021-2schiff.html
Extractions: Pianist Andras Schiff "The beauty of Bach is the freedom he gives us!" This interview is reprinted from the Winter 2001-Spring 2002 issue of FIDELIO Magazine. For related articles, scroll down or click here. Andras Schiff gave a piano recital in Hamburg, Germ any, on April 25, 2001, which aroused such a storm of enthusiasm in the audience, that, following the artist's content-rich, as well as extraordinarily technically-demanding concert, they called for three encores. Schiff had deliberately provoked his audience with the program: Bach's art of composition ran through the entire concert like a "red thread." The principles of Classical composition could be heard clearly, not only from Beethoven and Schumann (of course), but in the "modern" works by Janácek and Bartók (both of whom were composing at the beginning of the last century). And, Schiff manifests this self-same courage—to use deliberate intellectual challenges to surprise and to educate his audience—even beyond the concert hall. For example, his fight against the absurdly high "Karajan-tuning," which he broadened with a new battle on the sidelines of the last Salzburg Festival. Because of his invitation, members of the Berlin and Vienna Philaharmonics (both of which orchestras p
Keyboard Works (box Set) By Andras Schiff At Jsbach.org Well, I do! andras schiff is my favorite pianist for Bach. For me, hisplaying is the epitome of elegance, beauty, and intelligence. http://www.jsbach.org/keyboardworks.html
Extractions: e-mail:winston-barclay@uiowa.edu Release: Immediate Pianist Andras Schiff joins with Budapest Festival Orchestra in Bartok/Stravinsky concert IOWA CITY, Iowa Hungarian pianist Andras Schiff will be the featured soloist when the Budapest Festival Orchestra presents a concert of music by Bartok and Stravinsky at 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 26 in Hancher Auditorium on the University of Iowa campus. Under the direction of founding conductor Ivan Fischer, the orchestra will perform two of Igor Stravinsky's famous ballet scores, the 1919 version of the "Firebird Suite" and "Jeu de cartes." Schiff will be featured in performances of Bartok's second and third piano concertos, which he performed on acclaimed 1996 recordings with the Budapest Festival Orchestra on the Teldec label. Schiff, a native of Budapest, is Hungary's best known classical pianist, recognized worldwide for his thoughtful and inspired interpretations of Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Bartok. He was the New York Philharmonic's Artist-in-Residence for the 1997-98 season. A two-time Grammy Award winner, Schiff has also won England's Gramophone Award, Italy's Premio Abbiati, the 1991 Bartok Prize, "Instrumentalist of the Year" in the International Classical Music Awards, and the inaugural Claudio Arrau Memorial Medal from the Robert Schumann Society. In 1996 he was honored with Hungary's highest distinction, the Kossuth Prize. Schiff's discography now totals nearly 75 releases.
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Extractions: e-mail:winston-barclay@uiowa.edu Release: Immediate Hancher begins phone and box-office window sales for 1998-99 performing arts season IOWA CITY, Iowa Tickets for the 1998-99 performing arts season at the University of Iowa Hancher Auditorium, which have been available only by mail order since the season was announced in mid-April, will be available by phone or at the box-office windows beginning July 1. Ticket-buyers may take advantage of volume discounts essentially creating their own, custom series packages. For most performances, a simultaneous purchase of 3-5 events qualifies the ticket-buyer for a 15-percent discount, and a purchase of six or more events increases the discount to 20 percent. Among the anticipated highlights of the 1998-99 season are the Broadway musicals "Rent," "Annie," "Smokey Joe's Cafe" and "The King and I"; stellar dance attractions including "Tap Dogs," "Forever Tango" and the Houston Ballet's "Dracula"; and musical events ranging from the House of Blues with Taj Mahal, to two all-Beethoven concerts by the Emerson String Quartet to the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. The season includes established stars and old Hancher friends including folksinger Joan Baez, legendary jazz bassist (and Iowa native) Charlie Haden with his Quartet West, the Children's Theatre Company from the Twin Cities returning with "Wondrous Tales of Old Japan," jazz pianist Marcus Roberts, guitar virtuoso Christopher Parkening in a tribute to mentor Andres Segovia, Hungarian pianist Andras Schiff, Pro Musica Nipponia with percussionist Evelyn Glennie, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and pop/jazz songstress Cassandra Wilson in a tribute to Miles Davis.
NPR Performance Today Pianist Jonathan Biss technically secure (never ostentatious) makes him an exceptional pianist for any hascollaborated with such artists as Isaac Stern, andras schiff, James Tocco http://www.npr.org/programs/pt/4a/biss-bio.html
Extractions: PT Young Artist-in-Residence The young American pianist Jonathan Biss has already established an international reputation with performances in Canada, Finland, Germany, Israel and Italy, as well as throughout the United States. His exceptional promise was recognzed with an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1999. He has also received Wolf Trap's Shouse Debut Artist award, presented to him in 1997 by Isaac Stern, with whom he appeared in a recital program at Wolf Trap. Mr. Biss' summer schedule in 2001 features returns to the Bard and Bravo! Vail Valley music festival, as well as a series of chamber music performances in Vancouver. Highlights of his 2001-02 season include appearances with the San Francisco Symphony, the National Symphony, the Milwaukee Symphony, the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra under James Levine. He will also give recitals in Boston, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Toulouse, France, and will begin his second season as a member of Chamber Music Society Two, the pretigious emerging artists program of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He made his subscription concert debut on the Society's main series in December 2000 and will embark on a national tour with the Society this season.
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Bronson Piano Studio Review. Date, Review, Organization. 03/13/98, pianist andras schiff in Recital,Carmel Music Society. pianist andras schiff in Recital. By Lyn Bronson. http://www.bronsonpianostudio.com/reviews/031398r1.htm
Extractions: Lyn Bronson The long awaited and warmly anticipated piano recital of Andras Schiff on Friday, March 13, at Sunset Center in Carmel, turned out to be something of a disappointment. The occasion was the Carmel Music Society's fifth concert of its 1997-98 season. A second disappointment was the debut of the Society's new Hamburg Steinway concert grand that arrived one week earlier by airfreight from Paris where it had been selected by French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet. Thibaudet was featured on the Society's concert series the previous season as assisting pianist to violinist Joshua Bell. We had all hoped that the piano would be a "dream" instrument enhancing every note of a visiting artist. In fact, it is only a good instrument, not a great one. Its Renner action is velvety smooth, as we might expect from that great manufacturer of piano actions. The piano's sound, however, is distinctly neutral, cold and glassy, rather like a Yamaha concert grand. The low bass octaves, normally the crown jewels of a good concert grand, sound more like that a of seven-foot, rather than a nine-foot piano. The tenor and treble of the instrument are clear, but without a distinctive aura. Curiously enough, the Carmel Music Society's fifty-year-old New York Steinway concert grand that the Society recently sold for approximately $30,000 had all the qualities that the new instrument lacks. But, what we
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Extractions: http://www.BronsonPianoStudio.com/archived.htm Date Review Organization Pianist Vladimir Feltsman Carmel Music Society Beaux Arts Trio Carmel Music Society XTET Chamber Ensemble Chamber Music Monterey Pianist Robert Levin Mozart Society of California Monterey Symphony Pianist Barbara Nissman University of California, Santa Cruz Trumpeter Sergei Nakariakov Carmel Music Society Lark Quartet Mozart Society of California Dunsmuir Piano Quartet Chamber Music Monterey Bay Pianist Janina Fialkowska Carmel Performing Arts Festival Twilight Concert No. 3 - Haydn, Last Seven Words of Christ Carmel Bach Festival Intermezzo No. 3 - Organist Thomas Annand Carmel Bach Festival Intermezzo No. 2 - John Butt, Harpsichordist in Recital Carmel Bach Festival Twilight Concert No. 2 - A Celibration of Woman Composers of the Baroque Carmel Bach Festival Intermezzo No. 1 - Amadeus Remembered
BBC News | ARTS | Pianist Leaves Stage Over Phone Din andras schiff Wanted quiet before resuming his recital Worldrenowned pianist andrasschiff stormed out of his performance at the Edinburgh Festival until the http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/entertainment/arts/1504053.stm
Extractions: World-renowned pianist Andras Schiff stormed out of his performance at the Edinburgh Festival until the ringing from mobile phones and other distractions had stopped. The Hungarian virtuoso was in the middle of his performance when the noise from phones, watches and the audience coughing became too much. I have heard primary school children being quieter He stormed off the stage at the Usher Hall in Edingburgh, telling the audience they needed a break in which to stop their wheezing. He came back after taking a few minutes backstage to recompose himself, a festival spokesman confirmed. Festival reviewer Katie Grant from the Scotsman newspaper was at the concert and witnessed the dramatics. "It was Fantasia in C Minor with mobile phone, beeping watches and coughing and sneezing accompaniment. 'Frustrated' "I have heard primary school children being quieter,'' she wrote.
BBC News | ARTS | Pianist Leaves Stage Over Phone Din 1201 GMT 1301 UK pianist leaves stage over phone din andras schiff Wanted quietbefore resuming his recital Worldrenowned pianist andras schiff stormed out http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/1504053.stm
Extractions: World-renowned pianist Andras Schiff stormed out of his performance at the Edinburgh Festival until the ringing from mobile phones and other distractions had stopped. The Hungarian virtuoso was in the middle of his performance when the noise from phones, watches and the audience coughing became too much. Katie Grant, the Scotsman He stormed off the stage at the Usher Hall in Edingburgh, telling the audience they needed a break in which to stop their wheezing. He came back after taking a few minutes backstage to recompose himself, a festival spokesman confirmed. Festival reviewer Katie Grant from the Scotsman newspaper was at the concert and witnessed the dramatics. "It was Fantasia in C Minor with mobile phone, beeping watches and coughing and sneezing accompaniment.
Extractions: Find Articles Home View By Subject View By Name Search Tips ... Help Search all magazines this magazine Arts/Entertain. Automotive Business/Fin. Comp./Tech. Health/Fitness Home/Family News/Society Reference/Ed. Sports for Search Tips : Use quotes to find a specific phrase, e.g. "Abe Lincoln" or "New York". Personality problem.(those who attend the Edinburgh Festival will have the opportunity to evaluate the controversial and prolific pianist Andras Schiff)(Brief Article) Author/s: Dermot Clinch Issue: August 9, 1999 Andras Schiff got up the nose of Le Monde during the 1997 Salzburg Festival. First it was sartorial. "His dress is old-fashioned, the revers of his lapels are in black velvet, a watch chain completes the ensemble." Then personal. The Hungarian "poses as a personage, a great master of the piano". And finally it was musical. "The left hand disappears in a halo of pedal, the tempo shifts, the right hand sounds too loudly..." Edinburgh Festival audiences will have the chance to umpire. Is Schiff the personable, unassuming guide to the Austro-German musical tradition we have always taken him to be? Or does he play too loud? At the Usher Hall the pianist will play, probably quite delicately, the six Bach Partitas. The week after he will perform and direct from the piano, in something of a feat, four Mozart piano concertos plus the Quintet for Piano and Winds before doing something similar but entirely different a couple of nights later. The French critic sighs predictably. Schiff is "insatiable", he has already written. He is a "bulimic" of the piano.
Extractions: Author/s: Dermot Clinch Andras Schiff got up the nose of Le Monde during the 1997 Salzburg Festival. First it was sartorial. "His dress is old-fashioned, the revers of his lapels are in black velvet, a watch chain completes the ensemble." Then personal. The Hungarian "poses as a personage, a great master of the piano". And finally it was musical. "The left hand disappears in a halo of pedal, the tempo shifts, the right hand sounds too loudly..." Edinburgh Festival audiences will have the chance to umpire. Is Schiff the personable, unassuming guide to the Austro-German musical tradition we have always taken him to be? Or does he play too loud? At the Usher Hall the pianist will play, probably quite delicately, the six Bach Partitas. The week after he will perform and direct from the piano, in something of a feat, four Mozart piano concertos plus the Quintet for Piano and Winds before doing something similar but entirely different a couple of nights later. The French critic sighs predictably. Schiff is "insatiable", he has already written. He is a "bulimic" of the piano. Prolific, certainly. This year already, a selection of releases includes chamber music by Dvorak, duets by Mozart, Reger and Busoni, even an entire disc of polkas by the Romantic Czech nationalist Bedrich Smetana. Schiff has always been seduced by the pretty and shied away from the profound: his Beethoven concertos never did quite hit the mark. But in these rarely heard Bohemian dances the rise and fall and curve of the musical line is intoxicating. Melody, as always with this pianist, is paramount. Tempos are speeded up and slowed down, liberties given here and taken there. Schiff is the kind of pianist teachers advise pupils not to imitate. There was a time when most pianists played this way; but the face of history has frowned on the flexible rubato of old.
