Schiff Modellbau

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.

After his landmark recording of some of Johann Sebastian Bach’s most important keyboard music, one of the great Bach interpreters of our time turns his attention to the composer’s preferred instrument. The sound of the clavichord is, says András Schiff, an invitation into “a new world, a quiet oasis in our noisy, troubled times.