Recitalist as revenant in Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin

Sir András Schiff and Julian Prégardien

By Roy Westbrook, 10 November 2024

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“with just the right amount of variation and with good musical taste”

Reviewed at Wigmore Hall, London on 8 November 2024

Schubert, Die schöne Müllerin (W. Müller), D.795

Julian Prégardien, Tenor

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.

*****

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.

*****

Diminishing Dvořák in Prague

Frank Kuznik, 12th October

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

***11

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Roy Westbrook

Roy Westbrook gained a diploma in music history at London University (Morley College) and was for some years the head of music day schools at Oxford University, where he also led music summer schools. After some years leading the University's business school he has returned to music teaching and writing, and recently took part in the Arts in Residence courses on Bruckner, Mahler and Bach He is co-author (with Terry Barfoot) of a history of opera, and has taught day schools on Sibelius in Oxford and elsewhere.

Prégardien and Schiff: recitalist as revenant in Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin