Extractions: Advocate, The Air Force Journal of Logistics Air Force Law Review Air Force Speeches ... View all titles in this topic Hot New Articles by Topic Automotive Sports Top Articles Ever by Topic Automotive Sports Personality problem - those who attend the Edinburgh Festival will have the opportunity to evaluate the controversial and prolific pianist Andras Schiff - Brief Article New Statesman August 9, 1999 by Dermot Clinch Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. 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.
András Schiff: Kirshbaum Demler & Assoc. András schiff Conductor, Piano North American Representation relaible inthe world of classical music today than pianist andras schiff playing Bach. http://www.kirshdem.com/artist.php?id=andrasschiff
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Goldberg Variations By Andras Schiff At Jsbach.org The Hungarian pianist andras schiff s approach to Bach s music is light anddelicate, as displayed in this version of the Goldberg Variations. http://www.jsbach.org/schiffgoldbergvariations.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.
Keyboard Works (box Set) By Andras Schiff At Jsbach.org andras schiff is my favorite pianist for Bach. For me, his playing is the epitomeof elegance, beauty, and intelligence. He articulates the counterpoint http://www.jsbach.org/schiffkeyboardworksboxset.html
Bronson Piano Studio 03/13/98, pianist andras schiff in Recital, Carmel Music Society The longawaited and warmly anticipated piano recital of andras schiff on Friday, 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
The University Of Chicago Presents andras schiff AND FRIENDS andras schiff, piano, Yuuko Shiokawa, violin a pianist who swallows composers whole. The New York Times http://chicagopresents.uchicago.edu/series/chamber/2004-05.html
Extractions: The Scotsman In 2002 violinist Mikhail Kopelman, formerly of the Tokyo Quartet and the revered Borodin Quartet, invited his comrades to form the Kopelman. All graduates of the Moscow Conservatoire in its Golden Age of the 1970s, they share the dark, spiritual mantel of Russian playing, perfectly suited to this program of bar-raising masterworks of the late 19th and early 20th century. Friday / 12 November / 8 pm
Edinburgh Festivals - Beethoven Sonata Recital - Andras Schiff Beethoven Sonata Recital andras schiff, Usher Hall YEAR in year out, works require more highly-developed skills than the average pianist can boast. http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/reviews.cfm?id=936552003
Edinburgh Festivals - Andras Schiff andras schiff, USHER HALL andras schiff has been a festival regular for a number of However, these talents worked against the pianist at times in this http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/reviews.cfm?id=933742003
Musical-instruments: Keyboard: Piano: Pianists: S So Musical American pianist and recording artist associated with the Boston Symphony schiff, andras (b.1953). From the Terry Harrison Artists Management home page, http://www.somusical.com/musical-instruments/keyboard/piano/pianists/s/
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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.
Cliburn Concerts 2005-2006 Season You will also welcome worldrenowned pianists andras schiff, The masterfulFrench pianist, Jean-Yves Thibaudet will make his long-awaited Cliburn http://www.cliburn.org/page/431/1
Extractions: What better way to open the season following the 2005 Competition than with Alexander Kobrin, the Twelfth Cliburn Competition gold medalist? You will also welcome world-renowned pianists Andras Schiff, Vladimir Feltsman, and 1985 Cliburn silver medalist Barry Douglas, who will take the stage to play two concerti with his engaging ensemble, the Camerata Ireland. The masterful French pianist, Jean-Yves Thibaudet will make his long-awaited Cliburn Concerts debut. Internationally recognized as one of the top pianists of our time, Andras Schiff embodies a "generosity of spirit and mind" ( New York Observer ) virtually unmatched in the classical music world. This two-time Grammy Award winner devotes his Cliburn Concerts recital to works of two Viennese masters, Haydn and Beethoven.
Extractions: SEASON TICKETS ON SALE NOW FORT WORTH, TEXAS, April 8, 2005 The Van Cliburn Foundation has announced its 2005-2006 Cliburn Concerts season at Bass Performance Hall. Opening with the Twelfth Cliburn Competition gold medalist, the season becomes an impressive parade of some of classical music's biggest names, making the 2005-2006 season one of the strongest in many years. The new season features pianists Andras Schiff and Vladimir Feltsman, superstar violinist Joshua Bell, and vocalists Audra McDonald and Thomas Hampson in return performances. Hampson will perform a special program dedicated to the American art song, in collaboration with the Library of Congress. Cliburn Competition winner Barry Douglas conducts and performs with his Camerata Ireland, a chamber orchestra bringing together musicians from both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, marking the ensemble's Metroplex debut. The highly distinguished French pianist, Jean-Yves Thibaudet makes his long-awaited recital debut with Cliburn Concerts.
Electric Review: MUSIC: The Purpose Of A Recital Manuel Villet, Piano Recital, St. Johns, Smith Square, 9th April. A recitalprogramme, andras schiff has written, is the pianists visiting card. http://www.electric-review.com/archives/000110.html
Extractions: Manuel Villet, Piano Recital, St. Johns, Smith Square, 9th April. Schiff may be sometimes demanding, sometimes austere in his programming, but the clear implication behind all his recitals is that he and his colleagues, where appropriate are to be regarded as mediators with the masters, not primarily as personalities in their own right. This can lead to a certain emotional coolness, which in itself may be inspiring, especially when coupled with intellectual perspicacity a wonderful performance of Bachs Goldberg Variations I heard a couple of years ago in Brussels remains one of my most treasured concert experiences. Recently in London Schiff has chosen to promote the chamber music of Janacek, and the recital at the Wigmore Hall on the 28th featured two of the composers major piano pieces, the surviving movements of the sonata
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.
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Sunset Center including virtuoso pianist andras schiff, three young artists on their way toimportant andras schiffs piano recital was one of those occasions. http://www.sunsetcenter.org/presentpartdetail.jsp?id=22
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Extractions: The extraordinary Andras Schiff places his bravura pianism at the service of two composers this evening. Our first offering is Bach's Keyboard Concerto No. 2, which Schiff performs with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. You can hear them live at Carnegie Hall on April 27th, playing both Bach and Mendelssohn. Evening Music's last hour features Schiff playing solo piano in Janacek's "In the Mist," disguising its severe technical demands with his unfettered artistry. Before that, Pianist Keith Jarrett and the American Composers Orchestra under Dennis Russell Davies illuminate Alan Hovhaness's "Lousadzak," whose name means, roughly, "dawn of light." Then we hear Davies conduct the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Vienna in "The Light," Philip Glass's evocation of light waves and particles, written to commemorate the 1887 Michelson-Morley experiment, which demonstrated thatregardless of the motion of the observerthe speed of light remains the same.
