András Schiff en Granada: Bach y Beethoven a través del espejo

By Leonardo Mattana Ereño, 03 July 2021

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Reviewed at Auditorio Manuel de Falla, Granada on 3 July 2021

Bach, Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, BWV903

Beethoven, Piano Sonata no. 17 in D minor "Tempest", Op.31 no.2

Bach, The Musical Offering (Musikalisches Opfer), BWV1079 (Ricercar a 3)

Beethoven, Piano Sonata no. 32 in C minor, Op.111

Sir András Schiff, Piano

Sir András Schiff and Cappella Andrea Barca get to the heart of Bach

Nahoko Gotoh, 21st March

On their farewell Asian tour, András Schiff and his group Cappella Andrea Barca offer a programme of Bach's keyboard concertos performed in the spirit and style of chamber music.

*****

Recitalist as revenant in Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin

Roy Westbrook, 8th November

At London's Wigmore Hall, Julian Prégardien and Sir András Schiff reveal Schubert’s great song cycle as it once may have sounded.

*****

Hymns of praise: a stirring climax to Schiff's Mendelssohn cycle

Peter Quantrill, 26th April

Schiff takes the long view in Mendelssohn's unfashionable masterpiece.

****1

Schiff's Mendelssohn series with the OAE continues

Roy Westbrook, 25th April

Series of a composer's relatively neglected symphonies, or other genre, face one key test. Do the works emerge with greater stature than before?

****1

A medley of Mendelssohn from Sir András Schiff and the OAE

Dominic Lowe, 24th April

The first of three concerts in a Mendelssohn cycle sees Sir András Schiff and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment tackle the composer's First and Fourth Symphonies, preceded by the Piano Concerto no. 1.

***11

Sir András Schiff returns to Toronto’s Koerner Hall

Michelle Assay, 5th November

Sir András Schiff’s seventh visit to Toronto’s Koerner Hall was an almost three-hour-long feast of “quality” music by his musical heroes.

*****

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Leonardo Mattana Ereño

Leonardo Mattana (1988) es Doctor en filosofía por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. También ha cursado estudios de piano, composición, teoría musical e historia de la música en el conservatorio de Sassari (Italia). Sus pasiones musicales son trasversales, privilegiando la música sinfónica y de cámara, pero sobre todo, buscando siempre en la experiencia estética de la música elementos de reflexión.

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