0:09 Introduction by András Schiff 4:06 Musikalisches Opfer BWV 1079 (The Musical Offering, BWV 1079) Ricercar a 3 9:44 Mozart Fantasia in C Minor K.475 The piano is his own 280VC model mahogany Bösendorfer. This is recorded live on 3 August 2021 at the Church of Saanen. You can register and watch the full concert available at www.gstaaddigitalfestival.ch/en/video-category/konzerte-en/

Eine wahre Ohr- und Augenweide❤

What joy to watch and listen! Wonderful.

Andras Schiff eine unfassbar kompetente Persönlichkeit. In tiefster Dankbarkeit und Demut - Dankeschön.

What a wonderful instrument this Boesendorfer is.

Браво!!!

El MAESTRO Andras Schiff es el Arte musical mismo y con una incomparable modestia y virtuosismo musical.

Andras Schiff is a musical magician, pedagogue and a deep thinker. Bravo Maestro!

@helmistorch9191

Жыл бұрын

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So great to see classical musicians talking to an audience and explaining things, reaching out to an audience rather then the usual walking on stage, playing and walking off. Formality sets a cold and unnatural mood to a concert. Thanks Andras Schiff for your great performances and dedication!

@bradyma3804

11 ай бұрын

I agree. He explained the pieces very clearly!😊

Sie Andras Schiff ist ein Ausnahmenpianist, seine Konzerte, in denen er moderiert sind einzigartig, lehrreich und somit sehr besonders. Dieser Mann besteht mit jeder Zelle seines Körpers aus Musik, er lebt Musik, atmet Musik ist umgeben von einer ganz besonderen Aura.

@renzo6490

Жыл бұрын

Andras Schiff is an exceptional pianist, the concerts he moderates are unique, instructive and therefore very special. This man consists of music with every cell in his body, he lives music, breathes music and is surrounded by a very special aura. (Google Translate)

No performance is as interesting and intriguing and captivating as Schiff FromTokyo

Absolutely astonishing. Bach, Mozart and Schiff: what a mesmerising experience.

@marioduparc4097

10 ай бұрын

Moi , je ne suis pas étonné , mais émerveillé par cette musique ue Sir Schiff nous sert , avec gentillesse et non sans humour aussi ...Merci

I heard live, in February, Maestro Schiff, playing ricercare and then, immediately after, the Mozart Fantasia in a grosse Bach-Mozart recital which lasted (mid interval included) 3 hours. How funny Chopin quoted (in his first ballade) Mozart who was quoting Bach!

Quel prodigieux Artiste Vous êtes , Sir Schiff...Au Service des Géants qui ont fait la Musique Classique;...! Dans vos exemples entre Bach et Mozart , à l'écoute , nous ressentons une mélancholie chez Trazom , alors que Bach reste dans le domaine mathématique pur...Avec Mozart on voit poindre le Romantisme , avec cet Aspect du Sturm und Drank...Les Musicologues l'avaient déjà dit mais ici , nous avons l'illustration sonore ...Merci ;, Sir...!

I was not expecting Andras Schiff to play that good! Maybe he matured the older he got. I mean that as a compliment! Cause not all pianists age the correct way.

Good to see that Maestro is not so dogmatic anymore against pedal use in Bach.

@Renshen1957

4 ай бұрын

The sustain pedal has been called the soul of the piano, and the pianist crutch. The Silbermann Fortepiano J S Bach played on for Frederick the Great had a hand stop that could be pulled on by hand in imitation of the Pantalon a very large hammer dulcimer, and pushed off by hand. J S Bach neither had nor required a pedal to play a fugue. Sir Andras Schiff’s performances ignore history, but how is this any different than any other pianist in the last 124 years?

Very glad this is now on KZread! Thank you. Yesterday I re-listened to the concert from the Saanen church, and wished everyone could hear it. You are a most enterprising person!

The things he taught are really important and interesting for sure. Here, Andras Schiff plays so so well that I lost focus on the subject many times. Every single note has intention and weight, yet they all flow together in a smooth and cohesive way.

Che meraviglia! Grazie!

Mstro. Schiff goes into the firebreathing mode with those fffffff ´s. I hadn't heard anybody do that before. It works. It works, impressively.

I would prefer to hear the Ricercar a 6, but this is unquestionably wonderful. Bravo and thank you Mr. Schiff!

@gottfriedwilhelmvonleibniz9033

Жыл бұрын

Is it even possible to play it with 2 hands with 5 fingers on each on a piano?

@AnonYmous-ry2jn

Жыл бұрын

@@gottfriedwilhelmvonleibniz9033 Yes, it's actually originally a keyboard piece (one person two hands). Charles Rosen (maybe he was being a bit tongue-in-cheek, but I'm not sure) called it the greatest piano piece ever written. It's not too hard to find piano and harpsichord performances.

@gottfriedwilhelmvonleibniz9033

Жыл бұрын

@@AnonYmous-ry2jn if you look at the manuscript (or any score of that fugue) it is not written on 2 lines for keyboard, but on 6 separate lines, each with a voice, without any instrument specified. I've always heard it played by a small ensemble, so that's why I asked. To play that on keyboard must be incredibly difficult

@AnonYmous-ry2jn

Жыл бұрын

@@gottfriedwilhelmvonleibniz9033 I believe wrote 2 manuscripts, one in each form. I used to be slightly acquainted with a renowned music professor who not only told me he'd performed it many times on piano, but that he could read it and play it on the piano with the 6-staff score. I expressed surprise, and he said that reading scores like that at the keyboard is kind of a specialty of his. There is no doubt, by the way, that he was telling the truth - despite the seeming brag on his part, actually an enormously humble and unassuming person, not a trace of brag or swagger in his personality. One of the nicest people I ever met.

@frenchimp

10 ай бұрын

@@gottfriedwilhelmvonleibniz9033 My experience is, the difficulty of a fugue is not strongly correlated to the number of voices. In the 3-parts ricercar lots of things happen simultaneously and I guess it's rather hard to play, although I didn't try. But in the WTC there are 2 5-part fugues, and I don't find them harder to play than some 3-part fugues.

Grazie!

Schiff got it wrong. It was in 1747 (not 1746), 3 years before his death (not two years), when Bach visited the king in Prussia, Frederick the Great, in Potsdam. The visit was in May 1747. Bach died in July 1750.

I think he is real Jackson. Kishkirbeck Uralbeck the First is very proud of him!

Сэр Шифф, это Первосвященник музыки

❤️💕💕

People say they feel a weirdnothingness at the first Bach. Its written that way. Just as the bounciesr majorist music is meant to sound happy. Feel the anxious stale air as you wait for news that might be terrible or good.

If Bach hadn't been a great composer he would have been a great mathematician.

K475 or K575 as its says on the video at about 10 min?. Wanting to understand the development of WAM a bit better, I checked whether this was composed ~1785 or ~1790. It is K475, i.e. pre Don Giovanni.

5:19

It is always said, that this Mozart Fantasia (1785) is built after Bach's Ricercare. It is much more likely, that Mozart just developed material from Leopold Kozeluch's Sonata in c-minor (1780). Mozart published his works in Kozeluch's edition! Just listen to it, and you fill see: "... das kann kein Zufall sein". kzread.info/dash/bejne/mKSM2JuKl9DegKw.html

Comparing those 2 works is like comparing a book with a movie, but telling that one is inspiration of the other, is just in another level… totally ignoring musical history and really surprised someone as smart as Schiff insists on it.

As I watch and listen to Andras Schiff, I ask myself 'who does he remind me of ?'' Of course, the answer is...Peter Lorre. His expressions, his pauses all recall Lorre. And no wonder. They come from the same area in Europe, They are both Jewish. kzread.info/dash/bejne/dK6oqJlqpqnWnqg.html

@janbonsema5888

Жыл бұрын

Renzo " do you respect me a little bit more now, Mr, Bogart ?" One of Peter Lorre's lines in " Casablanca"

@renzo6490

Жыл бұрын

@@janbonsema5888 …. I remember that well. But I don’t think he could have said, “Mr. Bogart” in the film.

@janbonsema5888

Жыл бұрын

yes that was when Peter Lorre handed mr. Bogart his new french passport that he had been able to obtain through his "slightly louche" contacts.But, you tell me the the roles that they played

@renzo6490

Жыл бұрын

@@janbonsema5888 Bogart, the actor, played Rick Blaine, the owner of “Rick’s Café Americain” I believe actor Peter Lorre’s character was named Ugarte. “Rick, I hope you’re more impressed with me, now.” Is the line.

Bach visited Frederick the Great in the year 1747, not 1748.

@SandWolf_

Жыл бұрын

Wow. Bravo.

@felixsinniger280

Жыл бұрын

Very important !

Just not an amazing sound anymore as once was