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Andras Schiff - Solo Piano Music | Warner 2564699674

Andras Schiff - Solo Piano Music

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Label: Warner

Cat No: 2564699674

Barcode: 0825646996742

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 6

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 25th June 2007

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Superbly priced 6CD collection of previously deleted Teldec recordings from the Hungarian master pianist.

Works:

Joseph Haydn -
Piano Sonatas 32, 33, 53, 54, 58–62, Fantasia in C major
George Frideric Handel -
Suite No.1
Johannes Brahms -
Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel
Max Reger -
Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Bach
Robert Schumann -
Arabeske, Davidsbündlertänze, Blumenstück, Études symphoniques, Gesänge der Frühe, Nachtstücke, Kreisleriana, Variations on an Original Theme
Bedrich Smetana - Polkas

Schiff’s programme is of varying levels of technical difficulty but the same interpretative virtues are common throughout, i.e. a marked liking for inner voices, a lilt to the rhythms, crisp fingerwork and a natural approach to rubato… Schiff’s delicious brand of pianistic sorcery will probably win this music the largest audiences…” on Smetana – Gramophone 1999

Schiff is unquestionably among the most gifted and mercurial musicians of our time; a 'masterpianist' indeed. His programme, too, is exemplary with Handel's theme heard again in Brahms's Handel Variations and with Reger's massive Bach Variations as a daunting and enterprising close. Schiff is admirably suited to the Handel suite, getting off to a bold and improvisatory start and continuing with much of his recognizable brio and originality.” - Gramophone 1995

…the exceptional immediacy and vividness of his characterization reminds us that initially Schumann signed nearly all of these 18 'bridal thoughts' with an F (the impetuous Florestan) or an E (the introspective, visionary Eusebius) –as a clue to the mood of the moment. Schiff laughs and teases, storms and yearns, as if the hopes and dreams of the youthful Robert, forbidden all contact with his distant beloved, were wholly his own – there and then.” on Schumann - Gramophone 1995

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