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Re-issued to mark Schiff’s 50th birthday, these are in the main admirable performances, despite Schiff’s sometimes detached manner. There could, for example, be a more sweetly nostalgic feel to the…
…Schiff’s comparative austerity here more than I did. From this point on, however, Schiff builds the work to an increasingly brilliant conclusion, spilling over into a Quodlibet a touch too…
Recorded mostly live in concert at Zürich’s Tonhalle between 2004 and 2007, András Schiff’s Beethoven sonata cycle for ECM finally gets the boxed set treatment. Schiff is similar to pianists…
With Glenn Gould’s untimely death in 1982, the time was ripe for András Schiff’s formidable gifts as a Bach interpreter to garner international attention–and rightfully so. Although Schiff admired and…
András Schiff takes to the podium in this pair of Schubert symphonies presented as part of the Decca Concerts series. Schiff acquits himself well as a conductor–his Schubert sounds with…
As with his earlier ECM Schubert release, András Schiff performs on a six-octave, four-pedal Viennese Franz Brodmann fortepiano dating from around 1820, and characterized by intimate, twangy sonorities (the so-called…
…paced, although I slightly prefer the A minor in Schiff’s more impetuous piano version. The dynamic contrasts distinguishing Schiff’s Capriccio on the Departure of a Beloved Brother on piano don’t…
András Schiff’s Wanderer Fantasy gives us a kinder, gentler Schubert than the intense, driven composer of Sviatoslav Richter’s classic EMI recording. Richter is full of fury and fire alternating with…
…more resplendent engineering. The other works boast no less detail and passion from Schiff’s fingers, especially in the Sonata’s multi-leveled articulation and dynamic scaling in the first movement. Here Schiff’s…
…András Schiff programs the Humoreske first, the Sonata No. 3 (a.k.a. the Concerto Without Orchestra) last, and places the eight Op. 21 Noveletten in the middle, with an intermission halfway….