Goldberg variationen andras schiff biography
Andras schiff biography.
JS Bach Goldberg Variations Review
András Schiff has returned to the Goldberg Variations 20 years after his acclaimed first recording for Decca.
During that period he has emerged as one of the foremost Bach interpreters of his generation, and certainly one of the most warm and human in his approach.
Goldberg variationen andras schiff biography
Schiff prizes a cantabile voice in his piano to such an extent that he travels with his own technician and a piano always prepared by the same 'maestro' in Pescara, Italy.
The primacy of lyricism is also apparent in Schiff's playing, which is nuanced and supple throughout.
He can be powerfully virtuosic when the music calls for it, as in variations 14 or 29 of the set, but elsewhere he is mercurial, commenting on one variation that 'it's difficult to understand those interpreters who attack this piece with machinegun-like aggression'.
Schiff always favours the melodic and singing quality of the music over the pristine geometry of Bach's counterpoint, with a sparing use o