Pureza, coherencia y emoción: Andràs Schiff en Santander

By Pablo Sánchez Quinteiro, 11 August 2025

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“pasajes veloces de agilidad felina y episodios cantábiles de extrema delicadeza”

Reviewed at Palacio de Festivales de Cantabria: Sala Argenta, Santander on 8 August 2025

Bach, Goldberg Variations, BWV988: Aria

Bach, Capriccio sopra la lontananza del suo fratello dilettissimo, (On the departure of a most beloved brother), BWV992

Bach, Italian Concerto, BWV971

Bach, Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, BWV903

Mozart, Piano Sonata no. 17 in B flat major, K570

Haydn, Variations in F minor "Sonata, un piccolo divertimento", Hob XVII:6

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

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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Pablo Sánchez Quinteiro

Pablo Sánchez Quinteiro es un apasionado de toda la música clásica, pero muy especialmente de la obra y de la personalidad de Gustav Mahler. Su estudio y su disfrute han llenado y llenan su vida, hasta el punto de que una autoridad como José Luis Pérez de Arteaga lo ha calificado como "fabuloso estudioso mahleriano". Actualmente es coeditor de la principal web en castellano dedicada a dicho compositor (gustav-mahler.es). Profesionalmente, enseña e investiga neuroanatomía animal en la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela.

Pureza, coherencia y emoción: Andràs Schiff en el Festival de Santander