Andras Schiff

András Schiff & Jörg Widmann - Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas (2020)

András Schiff & Jörg Widmann - Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 207 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 149 Mb | Covers included | 01:04:49
Classical | Label: ECM Records

Two great artists, pianist András Schiff and composer/clarinettist Jörg Widmann, join forces for the first time on record, performing Brahms’s late masterpieces, the clarinet sonatas op. 120, written in 1894. In between the sonatas Schiff plays Widmann’s evocative Intermezzi for piano. As Jörg Widmann explains in a programme note, these are works inspired by his friendship with András Schiff and by a shared love of Brahms, to whom they pay tribute. The album was recorded at Neumarkt’s Historischer Reitstadel.
Cecilia Bartoli, Andras Schiff - Italian Songs: Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Haydn (1993) [Re-Up]

Cecilia Bartoli, András Schiff - Italian Songs: Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Haydn (1993)
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Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: Decca | # 440 297-2 | Time: 01:07:59

This was to be the end of the line for Italian word-setting by Viennese composers: once the confident sentiments that belonged to the poet Metastasio's opera seria felt the chill and threatening wind of Enlightenment and Revolution, their time was up. Even we, for the most part, prefer to remember the German-speaking Beethoven, Schubert and Haydn. So it is good to be reminded of their responses to the Italian muse (usually as part of their craft-learning student work) in this particularly well-cast recital. Central Europe, in the person of Andras Schiff meets Italy, in Cecilia Bartoli, to delightful, often revelatory effect.

Andras Schiff - Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variations (2003)  Music

Posted by Designol at March 30, 2023
Andras Schiff - Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variations (2003)

András Schiff - J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 269 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 201 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: ECM | # ECM New Series ‎1825, 472 185-2 | Time: 01:11:03

Who needs another recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations? After all, there have been so many great recordings of the work already – Landowska, Kempff, Gould, Pinnock, and Leonhardt, to name a few – that surely no one needs another recording of the Goldberg. Actually, everyone needs another recording of the Goldbergs provided that it's a recording of a great performance. There's too much in the Goldberg – too much brilliance, too much sorrow, too much humor, too much spirituality – for any one performance, even the best performance, to contain all of it. So long as the performance honors the work's honesty, integrity, and virtuosity, there's always room for another Goldberg on the shelf. This 2001 recording by Andras Schiff belongs on any shelf of great Goldbergs. Schiff has everything it takes – the virtuosity; the integrity; and most importantly, the emotional, intellectual, and spiritual honesty – to turn in a great Goldberg. Indeed, Schiff has already done so in his 1982 Decca recording of the work, a lucid and pellucid performance of tremendous beauty and depth. But as good as the 1982 recording was, the 2001 recording is better.

András Schiff - Bach: Complete Keyboard Works (2022)  Music

Posted by Rtax at April 7, 2022
András Schiff - Bach: Complete Keyboard Works (2022)

András Schiff - Bach: Complete Keyboard Works (2022)
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17:27:31 | Classical | Label: UMG

With his mixture of luminous classicism and an art of singing without any emphasis, András Schiff is an aristocrat of the piano who approaches music with the constant concern to play masterpieces as if they were given for the first time. In love with Bach, who is his favorite composer and his companion since childhood, he recorded all his keyboard music. From the age of 18, the pianist of Hungarian origin has indeed rejected scales and exercises to play the Cantor's music daily when he gets to work. It is for him an intellectual and emotional stimulation, even spiritual because, he says, his music, sacred or profane, is of the same water and proceeds from the same spirit.
Andras Schiff - Johann Sebastian Bach: 6 French Suites, Italian Concerto, French Overture (1993) 2CDs

András Schiff - J.S. Bach: 6 French Suites, Italian Concerto, French Overture (1993) 2CDs
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 460 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 313 Mb | Scans ~ 62 Mb
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | # 433 313-2 DH2 | Time: 02:09:15

András Schiff is one of the best Bach players among Gould, Rosalyn Tureck and Wanda Landowska. On Schiff's French Suites, every part from every suite has a different color and gives you different feeling. Every harmony is taken to its end with care, and dynamic balance is always delightful to listen. Articulation of the notes is excellent, full of humour, and in some places you surely start to smile and you feel very happy when you listen to Schiff. He also plays the slow parts very deeply and warmly, which is for some artists a big problem when playing Bach. There are also Italian Concerto and French Overture on the CD's, played brilliantly, so this set is really worth buying. Recommended for everyone.

András Schiff - Handel, Brahms, Reger: Piano Works (1995)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Sept. 4, 2022
András Schiff - Handel, Brahms, Reger: Piano Works (1995)

András Schiff - Handel, Brahms, Reger: Piano Works (1995)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:11:19 | 293 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Teldec | Catalog: 99051

Here, together with a Schumann recital (see page 126) are the first fruits of Andras Schiff's new Teldec contract; a live recital taken from the prestigious series, ''Meesterpianisten'' in Amsterdam. I wish I could be more enthusiastic about such a debut, for 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.
Andras Schiff, Ivan Fischer, Budapest Festival Orchestra - Bela Bartok: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-3 (1996)

Béla Bartók - Piano Concertos Nos. 1-3 (1996)
András Schiff, piano; Budapest Festival Orchestra, conducted by Iván Fischer

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 328 Mb | Scans included | Time: 01:16:26
Genre: Classical | Label: Teldec Classics | # 0630-13158-2

First there was rhythm - pulsing, driving, primal rhythm. And a new word in musical terminology: Barbaro. As with sticks on skins, so with hammers on strings. The piano as one of the percussion family, the piano among the percussion family. The first and second concertos were written to be performed that way. But the rhythm had shape and direction, myriad accents, myriad subtleties. An informed primitivism. A Baroque primitivism. Then came the folkloric inflections chipped from the music of time: the crude and misshapen suddenly finding a singing voice. Like the simple melody - perhaps a childhood recollection - that emerges from the dogged rhythm of the First Concerto's second movement. András Schiff plays it like a defining moment - the piano reinvented as a singing instrument. His "parlando" (conversational) style is very much in Bartók's own image. But it's the balance here between the honed and unhoned, the brawn and beauty, the elegance and wit of this astonishing music that make these readings special.

András Schiff - András Schiff Plays Bach (2022)  Music

Posted by Rtax at Aug. 18, 2022
András Schiff - András Schiff Plays Bach (2022)

András Schiff - András Schiff Plays Bach (2022)
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8:14:57 | Classical | Label: UMG

András Schiff is among the most prominent members of a generation of Hungarian pianists born in the years following World War II, along with such artists as Zoltán Kocsis, Dezso Ránki, and Jenö Jandó. Of this remarkable group, Schiff has achieved the strongest international reputation, due not only to his decision to pursue his career outside of Hungary, but also to his finely shaded sense of touch and his energetic, yet clear, treatment of contrapuntal textures.
András Schiff - Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1- Live at the BBC Proms 2017 (2020)

András Schiff - Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1- Live at the BBC Proms 2017 (2020)
BDRip 1080p | MKV | AVC, 1920x1080, ~ 4.1 Mbps | 1hr 50mn | 4.69 GB
Audio: DTS, 6 ch, 1510 kbps \ AC3, 2 ch, 448 kbps
BDRip 720p | MKV | AVC, 1280x720, ~ 3.0 Mbps | 1hr 50mn | 3.02 GB
Audio: AC3, 6 ch, 448 kbps \ AC3, 2 ch, 448 kbps
Genre: Music | Classical | Naxos

Johann Sebastian Bach was undoubtedly the greatest musical thinker of his age. Dubbed ‘the Old Testament of music’ by the conductor and pianist Hans von Bülow, The Well-Tempered Clavier is acknowledged to be one of the most significant works ever written for the keyboard. Each of these 24 preludes and fugues encapsulates its own mood, and Bach’s delight in mixing technical strictness with freedom of expression has made this work an indispensable element of Western culture for centuries. Sir András Schiff is heralded as one of the finest Bach interpreters today, and this first complete performance at the prestigious BBC Proms was summed up as ‘stupendous’ by The Independent.
András Schiff - Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2- Live at the BBC Proms 2018 (2020)

András Schiff - Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2- Live at the BBC Proms 2018 (2020)
BDRip 1080p | MKV | AVC, 1920x1080, ~ 4.1 Mbps | 2hr 22mn | 6.04 GB
Audio: DTS, 6 ch, 1510 kbps \ AC3, 2 ch, 448 kbps
BDRip 720p | MKV | AVC, 1280x720, ~ 3.0 Mbps | 2hr 22mn | 3.88 GB
Audio: AC3, 6 ch, 448 kbps \ AC3, 2 ch, 448 kbps
Genre: Music | Classical | Naxos

Distinguished Bach specialist Sir András Schiff returned to the BBC Proms in 2018 to present Book II of The Well-Tempered Clavier. Extending the variety already evident in Book I (available on 2.110653), Bachs effortless brilliance and new-found sonorities push harmony and counterpoint further than ever with a combination of ancient and modern styles, church austerity and galant lightness. Schiff has said that no-one combines the sacred and the secular as Bach does, and this is comprehensively demonstrated in Bachs fascinating and challenging sequence. This performance in the Royal Albert Hall was described as a musical meditation for our troubled times by the Independent.