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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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The composer's music is losing some of its national flavor as Semyon Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic prepare to take it abroad.

Iván Fischer and the BFO, together with Sir András Schiff and Anna-Lena Ebert, remember Ligeti and take Bartók to Parnassus, where they give an electrifying performance of the Eroica.

Iván Fischer brings his Budapest band to the BBC Proms in an evening of many surprises, with a convincing Schumann Piano Concerto from Sir András Schiff.

Ernő Dohnányi's Symphonic Minutes made its first appearance on a Philharmonic subscription program since 1940, followed by a stirring account of Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto with Sir András Schiff.

At a benefit concert to aid the emergency relief fund of the German Orchestra Foundation, Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin perform Beethoven. 

Beethoven's summation of his keyboard writing is open to a variety of interpretations. Sir András Schiff asserts noble tradition over revolutionary impulse.

Two great Hungarians – Iván Fischer and Sir András Schiff – together with the fabulous Budapest Festival Orchestra give a masterclass in musicianship.

Playing under its music director Gábor Takács-Nagy, the VFCO radiated joy for music-making; the very thing Verbier – and now Tsinandali – is all about.

A chance to experience two sides of Sir András Schiff's artistry, as pianist and conductor, made for an especially memorable experience in this collaboration between the Hungarian artist and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra.

An exquisite rendition of Mendelssohn's Lobgesang makes one wonder why the work is not part of the regular repertoire.

Sir András Schiff and the OAE serve up three delectable dishes created by the irrespressible and inimitable Papa Haydn.

For this program, Sir András Schiff chose only works belonging to composers for whom he feels a real affinity.

Andras Schiff returned to the Proms for a late night recital of JS Bach's Well Tempered Clavier, Book I. His execution was masterly and this master pianist's reputation as a standard bearer of this music was upheld beyond doubt.

With thought-inspiring programming, Schiff played the penultimate sonatas of Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, and Schubert.

At 89, Blomstedt may now be in the autumn of his years, but his conducting is certainly the equivalent of Ol' Blue Eyes' “vintage wine from fine old kegs”, as evidenced in tonight's splendid all-Beethoven Prom with the Gewandhaus.

There cannot be many more spectacular views enjoyed during a concert interval than that from the terrace of the Salle des Combins, the main venue for the Verbier Festival.

The Jerusalem Quartet and Sir András Schiff make a great case for Weinberg at Wigmore Hall. 

Sir András Schiff is traversing the final three piano sonatas of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in concerts which celebrate the sonata form and explore the notion of "late style" in relation to these composers.

Sir András Schiff delivers deeply profound performances of the final piano sonatas of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert.

The Budapest Festival Orchestra poured out wave upon wave of euphoric depth, melancholy and sateen-like ensemble with vigor, heart and delightful ability under the guidance of their innately musical founder and conductor.  

A truly revelatory performance of Schumann's Piano Concerto, with freshly bold and uncluttered readings of Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture and Scottish Symphony from András Schiff and the OAE.

The Late Night Bach Prom series really seems to have caught the imagination of the public this year. For Sir András Schiff’s Goldberg Variations, the Royal Albert Hall was really full.

Sir András Schiff delights Vancouver in the nuances of late sonatas by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. 

A gladiatorial setting of one man, one piano, two thousand spectators: the piano's slightly rakish angle was going to allow a few hundred more people to see András Schiff's hands in action. 

András Schiff takes on, and astonishes with, the last sonatas of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert.

András Schiff's Wigmore Hall concert of Bach's six Keyboard Partitas confirmed him as an artist working at the very top of his game.

Almost a year after it started, András Schiff’s Bach project in New York is finally coming to its conclusion. He began on the Upper East Side, at 92Y, with both books of The Well-Tempered Clavier. His performance of Book I, I wrote, was “of the highest quality and depth of thought”.

András Schiff and Hanno Müller-Brachmann make a perfect musical pair. On the one hand, Schiff, staunch lover of the old masters and one of the only pianists left on the circuit who will regularly do a Beethoven or a Well-Tempered Clavier cycle, is as unflashy as you like, moderate, serious.

At times, this recital felt just plain wrong, almost voyeuristic. It had a purgative, deeply personal flavour to it that had been absent from András Schiff’s performance of the first book of the Well-Tempered Clavier, five days and Hurricane Sandy prior.

András Schiff was one of the first pianists of the digital era to record the complete works of Bach, back in the 1980s. Now, older and wiser, Schiff is embarking upon a tour demonstrating how far his interpretations have progressed over nearly three decades.

Among the audience at Thursday night’s Philadelphia Chamber Music Society recital, it seemed few had heard of baritone Christian Gerhaher. They had come for the excellent reason of András Schiff playing the piano. But by the end of the evening it was clear that neither name would be soon forgotten.

Standing ovation after standing ovation. The packed hall at St George’s received a treat in form of an evening of Haydn played by fantastic musicians. The stage was filled with energy from start to end in a programme, from the Oxford Philomusica’s ‘Best of Haydn’ series, which displayed a variety of Joseph Haydn’s works.

Sir Mark Elder and his Hallé Orchestra continue to achieve extraordinary things in Manchester, earlier this week winning Gramophone awards for the third consecutive year and tonight giving further reason to celebrate with the opening concert in their 2011-12 Beethoven cycle.Beethoven’s Symphony No.

Thursday night’s BBC Proms was a celebration of Sibelius, Bartók and Janáček, composers who mastered the classical music tradition and put their home countries on the map.Summoning images of the Finnish countryside, Scènes historiques, Suite No. 2 displayed a range of orchestral colours.

“You will never, ever hear greater piano playing,” said Dame Fanny Waterman, DBE, as she stood on the stage of the resplendently-refurbished Royal Hall in Harrogate.

Bread, filling, bread. Overture, concerto, symphony. Despite flirtations with open sandwiches, club sandwiches and two-symphony programmes, it seems that in both cases most people stick to tradition. But not the Philharmonia and András Schiff: last night’s programme began with Mendelssohn’s brooding Hebrides Overture, followed by Brahms’ Fourth Symphony.

Dans un programme improvisé qui allait de Bach à Beethoven en passant par Haydn et Mozart, le célèbre pianiste a produit des merveilles... avant de s'agacer des bruits du public toulousain.

Bei seinem Gastauftritt mit dem Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich spielt Sir András Schiff auf einem Steinway-Flügel, der einst dem berühmten Dirigenten Georg Solti gehörte. Bach und Beethoven klingen darauf wie neu gehört.

Die Melange aus bestimmter Lässigkeit und zwinkernder Süffisanz ließ bei neuerlichem Haydn dieser geistreichen Londoner Künstlergemeinschaft wieder kaum redensartliches Auge trocken.

Après un début de concert interrompu par trois perturbateurs et des fumigènes, l'orchestre israëlien, Lahav Shani et András Schiff ont démontré l'étendue de leurs qualités dans Beethoven et Tchaïkovski.

Sir Andràs Schiff ofreció un concierto estelar en la primera semana del Festival Internacional de Santander.

Ein nicht alltägliches Programm, ein origineller Interpretationsansatz und verschwenderische Zugaben begeistern das Publikum in der Tonhalle Zürich.

Sir András Schiff ofreció junto a la Cappella Andrea Barca un magnífico concierto en el que destacó especialmente una inolvidable interpretación de Mozart.