Bach - English Suites (Andras Schiff)

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  • Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
  • Bach: English Suites BWV 806-11 by Andras Schiff
    • Video Wigmore Hall
    In this concert Sir András Schiff performs a programme entirely dedicated to Bach, including the composer's Capriccio in B flat, allegedly written to bid fond farewell to his brother, and his 1735 Italian Concerto.

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  • @deanbrodrick1434
    @deanbrodrick1434 2 года назад +14

    I used to be of the opinion that only God, God's works, and the abstract ideas of circles and spheres etc. are perfect. The tree is perfect, the mountain is perfect, the river is perfect but not the works of man. They are close, but not quite. I was wrong. The music of JS Bach is perfect in the same way that the tree the mountain and the river are perfect. And András Schiff can express this perfection, perfectly.

  • @lvbdevinelove2329
    @lvbdevinelove2329 3 года назад +95

    People don't realize just how difficult and kickass this music is.

    • @janetsponaglehopper5277
      @janetsponaglehopper5277 3 года назад +5

      So true!

    • @kevinmaestroful
      @kevinmaestroful 3 года назад +8

      It's so kickass, english suites have the intensity of a beethoven sonata amazing stuff.. Music for the soul

    • @lvbdevinelove2329
      @lvbdevinelove2329 3 года назад +7

      Yes! You nailed it. I'm so happy and feel so privledged to live in the same world as JSBach.

    • @NYCBG
      @NYCBG 3 года назад +5

      Believe me, some of us do. Oh, yes we do!

    • @timm6892
      @timm6892 3 месяца назад +1

      @@kevinmaestroful
      They really do have the intensity of a Beethoven Sonata, and honestly Bach’s Partitas for Keyboard are even better.

  • @hazemnajjar9401
    @hazemnajjar9401 4 года назад +623

    Suite 1 A major:
    Prelude: 1:13
    Allemande: 3:17
    Courante I: 7:26
    Courante II: 8:50
    Sarabande: 11:26
    Bourrée: 15:00
    Gigue: 18:56
    Suite 2 A minor:
    Prelude: 21:40
    Allemande: 26:02
    Courante: 29:08
    Sarabande: 30:42
    Bourrée: 33:43
    Gigue: 37:31
    Suite 3 G minor:
    Prelude: 40:49
    Allemande: 43:59
    Courante: 47:05
    Sarabande: 49:02
    Gavotte: 52:09
    Gigue: 55:23
    Suite 4 F major:
    Prelude: 58:05
    Allemande: 1:02:16
    Courante: 1:05:21
    Sarabande: 1:06:45
    Menuet: 1:09:54
    Gigue: 1:12:48
    Suite 5 E minor:
    Prelude: 1:15:58
    Allemande: 1:21:15
    Courante: 1:24:31
    Sarabande: 1:26:27
    Passepied: 1:29:35
    Gigue: 1:32:47
    Suite 6 D minor:
    Prelude: 1:36:07
    Allemande: 1:43:24
    Courante: 1:46:53
    Sarabande: 1:48:58
    Gavotte: 1:51:54
    Gigue: 1:55:44
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    • @mckavitt13
      @mckavitt13 4 года назад +12

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    • @brigitteyassa2032
      @brigitteyassa2032 4 года назад +2

      Hazem Najjar .

    • @alexpietra
      @alexpietra 4 года назад +5

      Ahahah you're funny

    • @mauricioabadi1410
      @mauricioabadi1410 3 года назад +7

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  • @robertwightmanCA
    @robertwightmanCA 8 месяцев назад +11

    I may just be a simple deluded human being, but I really believe we will hear a lot of Bach's music in heaven. These melodies and harmonies Bach created must have been inspired by God himself, they are so beautiful.

    • @rickmarti77
      @rickmarti77 7 месяцев назад +3

      There is a deep spirituality that transcends religion.

    • @chessiepique9532
      @chessiepique9532 3 месяца назад

      This atheist finds hearing some works by Bach almost a religious experience. Can't explain it, his music is just like that.

    • @user-og8nx3hv2x
      @user-og8nx3hv2x 3 месяца назад

      ​@@rickmarti77私も そのように思います

    • @tau7260
      @tau7260 2 месяца назад

      I agree. All good comes from (exitus) and returns (reditus) to its source.

    • @ecyranot
      @ecyranot 19 дней назад

      Yes, you are deluded, but that's okay.

  • @Baroquepassion
    @Baroquepassion 10 месяцев назад +11

    Imagine playing all these in succession and from memory. What a feat of mind, heart and soul.

  • @Lethah
    @Lethah 9 месяцев назад +5

    Recently at his performance at Carnegie he called Bach the best composer ever in the world. Comments here are impressed by Andras’ memory, his ability to play 2 hours with eyes closed.. Bach is his daily prayer! ❤️

  • @sebastienlipman7624
    @sebastienlipman7624 2 года назад +14

    Maestro Schiff is making his time on earth wortwhile, by playing, and, making our time on earth wortwhile, by listening. Gratitude.

  • @blairribeca5858
    @blairribeca5858 4 месяца назад +13

    His face while playing brings to mind Blake's,"The Moon like flower in Heaven's high bower,with silent delight,sits and smiles on the Night."

    • @Lethah
      @Lethah 3 месяца назад +1

      Wonderful

  • @fazergazer
    @fazergazer Год назад +23

    Simultaneously the clarity of glass and the technique of a god

  • @Michel-Fiorelli
    @Michel-Fiorelli 2 года назад +13

    There is no separation beetween the Artist and his piano, the composer and his music. There is no concert, no scene, no public listening a great virtuosis in demonstration of his talent. There is only one sphere, the Bach spirit through a magic sharing and incredible humility and compassion for human kind. The way I feel Andras Schiff: an apostle.

  • @kevinmaestroful
    @kevinmaestroful 2 года назад +91

    Bach's English suites speak to me more than any other keyboard works he wrote. This is without doubt the best live performance of any musician I've ever seen in my life ..words fail me

    • @goscott444
      @goscott444 2 года назад +3

      I don't know how the audience can sit still? Around 20min at the end Mr. Schiff moves his middle finger back and forth on the key in string vibrato style! 😁

    • @MrYuryZ
      @MrYuryZ Год назад +2

      To me both books of
      The Well-Tempered Clavier
      Book 1 - ruclips.net/video/6ZjN0e4QL6U/видео.html& by Dror Biran (very contemplative performance. He also is going to performe a second book in future)
      Book 2 - ruclips.net/video/ju6xpqqVZU4/видео.html&t by Evelyne Crochet
      and
      Goldberg Varitions ruclips.net/video/BLElZaqQxE4/видео.html (MinSoo Sohn)
      spoke the most until I've dove into
      The Art of Fugue BWV 1080
      ruclips.net/video/p1Sq1HOYglU/видео.html - by Marta Czech
      ruclips.net/video/MYlPSQNTbiI/видео.html - by Filippo Gorini
      two piano live performance. I don't know which one I like more
      And here are instrumental arrangements:
      Arranged for instruments with a Vocal in a several compostitons - ruclips.net/video/N6sUlZa-IrU/видео.html
      Arranged for 16 strings, 4 winds, harpsichord and organ - ruclips.net/video/ABUBXhIzpb8/видео.html
      Give it a try. HIgly recommend. It's the whole otherworldy realm of music by its own.

    • @roieliasen8556
      @roieliasen8556 7 месяцев назад

      haendel was only one week in London. Bach Liked the sound of local i central euorope and the Prostentante.

    • @roieliasen8556
      @roieliasen8556 7 месяцев назад +1

      I aalso have the frenshs on my piano. But I like the English better. The comp is better! There you got the to think. Ok. Thats cool.

  • @Lethah
    @Lethah 9 месяцев назад +8

    His sweetness and humility come through in the music. He and Bach must have had that in common.

  • @paulogazola553
    @paulogazola553 6 лет назад +170

    I love the way Mr. Schiff "explains" Bach musical intentions to listeners. It's so much easier to understand the musical message, just like reading a well punctuated text.

    • @catherinejones9396
      @catherinejones9396 5 лет назад +4

      Well said. Cathy.

    • @mckavitt13
      @mckavitt13 4 года назад +2

      Bach's musical intentions. 🎓👓✒🙆 Nice idea.

    • @paulogazola
      @paulogazola 4 года назад +13

      @@mckavitt13 Thanks! I always avoid listening English Suites, but when I've heard Schiff's interpretation, it's like "Oh, now I understand the movement of the music". His playing is so didactic! Some others good pianists play them too "plain", mixing the musical ideas, and I can't get the idea. Schiff plays separating the melodies: this is this, that is that, this is coming to that, etc. Cheers

    • @natzhao3260
      @natzhao3260 3 года назад +6

      It’s very interesting how you brought up punctuation because musical notations were used a lot less in the baroqueperiod, and a good pianist needs to decipher the unpunctuated notes to reveal Bach’s true intentions. Well said

    • @dominiquelarueenchantez-vous
      @dominiquelarueenchantez-vous 3 года назад +1

      Compleatly agree! :)

  • @linomilita
    @linomilita 3 года назад +6

    Andras Schiff is the light and discreet breeze of silver that caresses Bach's sound waves.

  • @charles.e.g.
    @charles.e.g. Год назад +7

    My absolute favorite Bach interpreter. His playing is so clear and precise. He NEVER uses the sostenuto pedal to create legato phrasing. This is so tempting because their are so many complex contrapuntal lines occurring simultaneously. And many lesser performers fall victim to this trap. But Schiff understands that pedaling will only blur and muddy the lines. So he uses his fingering to do all of this. And it is extraordinarily difficult. But he always makes it look so effortless. I have mad respect for this man and his consummate artistry. 🙏

    • @tehPuulz
      @tehPuulz Год назад +1

      I allow myself to respond since your comment is focused on it but he does use the pedal to create legato while playing bach, like at 13:30 or in his live performances of the whole WTC, Goldbergs, Italian concerto..., like everyone who's playing Bach on a piano (Gould, Richter, Pogorelich, Ashkenazy,...), you can see/hear it for Gould playing the Emajor fugue book 2 or the AoF on youtube you'll see his right foot working.
      Maybe what you meant was pressing the pedal and hold it for a few seconds which can indeed hurt the clarity in Bach but I never heard such pedaling except for HJ Lim live performance of WTC1 or Feinberg recordings and I wouldn't call them lesser pianists.
      Cheers

  • @StijnDefrancq
    @StijnDefrancq 6 месяцев назад +6

    Thank God on this planet there is also tremendous beauty!
    This music, this wonderful artist is not less than a devine gift..🙏

  • @user-wf2dg1dm6f
    @user-wf2dg1dm6f 11 месяцев назад +14

    A masterful performance. He has globalized the music. His phrasing is impeccable. What a pleasure to listen to him.

  • @ezzovonachalm7038
    @ezzovonachalm7038 4 года назад +8

    Je n'avais jamais entendu avec une telle clarté TOUTES les notes de ces Suites Anglaises comme dans cette interprétation absolument magistrale d' András Schiff. Il m'est apparu come un prêtre qui de ses doigts évoque et fait revivre miraculeusement parmi nous l'être même, la présence et le sourire entendu de Johann Sebastian Bach !

    • @MargotGrafinVonKonigsmarck
      @MargotGrafinVonKonigsmarck Месяц назад

      Ja, J.S. Bach war ein Wissender, ein wahrer Eingeweihter und wir, die wir ihm zuhören, erfahren eine Weihe, ob wir es merken oder nicht...

  • @annetteschultze6512
    @annetteschultze6512 6 лет назад +106

    I absolutely love how Anras Schiff plays Bach. I could listen to him all day long, every day of the year!

    • @lintflas1183
      @lintflas1183 5 лет назад +8

      You just could? I do! :)

    • @bryancooker175
      @bryancooker175 3 года назад

      How are you doing today my name is Bryan cooker

    • @sashka6666
      @sashka6666 3 года назад +1

      And I do!

    • @bryancooker175
      @bryancooker175 3 года назад +1

      @@sashka6666 how are you doing today

  • @magiccarpetmusic2449
    @magiccarpetmusic2449 5 лет назад +140

    Bach is like some sort of godlike being. Utterly brilliant. He really can make one feel there's a loving Creative force underlying all reality, a force that actually cares about us, and about everything. And one could say much the same of Schiff. He truly does Bach justice.

    • @johnk8174
      @johnk8174 4 года назад +3

      Well said.

    • @LOLERXP
      @LOLERXP 4 года назад +6

      The music inspires and uplifts. If you really want there to be "a loving Creative force underlying all reality, a force that actually cares about us", then it will feel like it. I couldn't see in a million years how you get this kind of assumption from music, great as it may be, unless it's what you've been _taught_ to associate with it. And that's not tangible at all. I think the idea diminishes Bach's achievements.

    • @teddythemlgcorgi7309
      @teddythemlgcorgi7309 4 года назад +3

      Schiff does anything but bring justice to Bach

    • @mckavitt13
      @mckavitt13 4 года назад +1

      @@teddythemlgcorgi7309 May I ask what you dislike in his playing of Bach? Interested. Thx.

    • @teddythemlgcorgi7309
      @teddythemlgcorgi7309 4 года назад +3

      mckavitt13 somebody asked me what I think about Andras Schiff playing and this what I responded with, it basically explains everything
      Terrible. Like mostly every other modern pianist (Pollini, Perahia, and others). He does nothing interesting to music and just plays exactly what the score says and not only that he also plays everything the same, he can’t switch from one emotion to another, he can’t change his playing depending on the composer, he can’t add anything interesting to the music. Is this really what classical music is about? I just listened to Tatina Nikolayeva play this and THAT is music, great interpretation by a great pianist!

  • @sharonaldridge3332
    @sharonaldridge3332 6 лет назад +100

    Gifts to our planet: Bach and Schiff. I shiver.

  • @magnetiktrax
    @magnetiktrax 9 месяцев назад +8

    A pretty astonishing memory to remember such a long solo program.

    • @magbag70
      @magbag70 7 месяцев назад +1

      and .. a Bach program!

  • @danieloreilly881
    @danieloreilly881 4 месяца назад +1

    to play these suites is to celebrate Bach's genius. the magic is taking the notes off the page and placing them on the keyboard. as listeners we enjoy genius and magic working together in real time. bravo Bach and Schiff.

  • @harrisherman137
    @harrisherman137 6 лет назад +36

    The world's finest pianist, consistently superb playing . His Bach is untouchable and he gets better with age.

    • @jamesjoycean
      @jamesjoycean 6 лет назад +3

      and saw him in chicago conducting and playing bach keyboard concerto #5 AND Beethovenn cto #1...stunning performance!!

  • @papillonpapillon3761
    @papillonpapillon3761 3 года назад +19

    I usually prefer listening to Bach on harpsichord but this is so beautiful and precise it's an honor to listen to. He not only understands what he plays but makes us understand exactly what is going on at each second. He'll be a go-to for referencing Bach for the piano from now on.

    • @alindmay
      @alindmay Год назад +2

      Yes I agree, can only be surpassed... by Andras himself playing it on the harpsichord !!

    • @quaver1239
      @quaver1239 Год назад

      Agreed 😊

  • @gerrycoogan6544
    @gerrycoogan6544 Год назад +9

    @Stas Voihanski
    Thank you for uploading this beautiful performance of Bach's magnificent music.

  • @carlosolinas2112
    @carlosolinas2112 2 года назад +8

    Schiff è semplicemente perfetto e delicato e Bach assolutamente geniale nell'aver composto un brano così complesso, Mi chiedo come abbia fatto! Mi chiedo anche come Schiff possa essere cosi' bravo a non sbagliare neppure una nota. Persone di livello superiore. Meraviglia assoluta e inarrivabile!

    • @toape2002
      @toape2002 2 года назад +2

      Compositor e intérprete llegan a la perfección. A disfrutarlo!!!

  • @edosardo2582
    @edosardo2582 4 года назад +10

    This man gives me LIFE, thank you sir Andràs Schiff.

  • @rodovre
    @rodovre 6 лет назад +375

    Somehow, the world seems a nicer place, when listening to Andras playing Bach....

    • @rravvia
      @rravvia 6 лет назад +4

      rodovre Seems?!

    • @buckylove6918
      @buckylove6918 6 лет назад

      Andras seems like a douche to me

    • @JXS63J
      @JXS63J 5 лет назад +12

      So go somewhere else and leave us alone to listen. You are an ignorant fool. Maybe read about his life and feel ashamed of yourself, as you should.

    • @HuangShang010
      @HuangShang010 5 лет назад +3

      Who's your headshot?

    • @leo32190
      @leo32190 4 года назад

      Bucky Love Shut up you JC BACH lover

  • @victormanuelpadilla1845
    @victormanuelpadilla1845 8 месяцев назад +7

    ¿Cómo es posible que este excelso pianista ejecuta tanto las suites francesas como las suites inglesas con una extraordinaria y majestuosa MEMORIA casi con los ojos cerrados...cada poro de su cuerpo despide esta celestial música del genio de BACH. Cualidad muy poco común en otros legendarios pianistas que dominan el teclado. Se puede considerar a Andras Schiff como un extraterrestre o por Reencarnación del genio de BACH...

    • @timm6892
      @timm6892 3 месяца назад

      And not only the French and English suites but also the Partitas for Keyboard as well. And the partitas are even more amazing than the French and English suites.

  • @Resounded
    @Resounded 5 лет назад +35

    This concert , The Music delivered by Sir Andras Schiff absolutely brings me to a state of AWE ! Can't stop listening to his performance. What a Master of Classical Piano and, Bach.

  • @jiwonlee5906
    @jiwonlee5906 6 лет назад +13

    This is simply a rendition of great elegance and authority. And J. S. Bach lives on because of it.

  • @williamwillmott6894
    @williamwillmott6894 Год назад +5

    Schiff is my favourite interpreter of Bach. He seems to go into a trance, and the magic just flows

  • @bontempo01
    @bontempo01 6 лет назад +25

    This is just a brilliant performance. Andras Schiff is next to perfect on this occasion and his reading of the English Suites is second to none.

  • @DWeirich76
    @DWeirich76 5 лет назад +21

    Press like of you can play Bach for hours on piano mistake free with your eyes closed in front of thousands and make it look effortless...

    • @scottson2
      @scottson2 4 года назад +1

      I get flustered with a couple onlookers of my playing.. I can play 6 P&Fs somewhat convincing now but would do anything to pull off a schiff flawless performance even if just 1 night...

    • @Sulpha_Star1
      @Sulpha_Star1 3 года назад +1

      The 20 ppl that pressed like are lying 🤥 . This guy is gifted and must have spent his entire lifetime practicing

  • @g.kech.10
    @g.kech.10 2 года назад +14

    The best balanced performance out there, both in expression and technique! I was fortunate enough to play no2 and no4. Currently learning nos. 3 and 5. András Schiff makes J.S.Bach sound so simple!

  • @heron-stone
    @heron-stone 6 лет назад +19

    we are truly blessed to live in an age when so many great musicians/artists/etc. are available to us so easily. i also love murray perahia’s english suites.

  • @gardikagigih5704
    @gardikagigih5704 4 года назад +27

    I feel this is one of the best BACH interpretation, from Maestro Andrass Schiff. I couldnt hold my tears fell in several moment. And BACH will always be my favourite composer - his composition is timeless. always 'life', always new

    • @AndreasMartinLaute
      @AndreasMartinLaute 4 года назад +2

      Gardika Gigih Music Absolutely right! Especially Nō 6 is incredible. All best wishes, a Bach - loving lute player

  • @aldobelmarm
    @aldobelmarm Год назад +3

    Fantastic, to dream of, to enjoy the sugar of life, pure energy, by heart ! , No mistakes ! This man is no man. He should have the power to do something in this world, instead other fools doing selfish things. I say all this because there is no words to express.

  • @FlexingClassicalMusic
    @FlexingClassicalMusic 9 месяцев назад +3

    Listening to classical music can be a form of meditation. It's a way to escape the chaos of the modern world and find a sense of serenity and balance in the intricate melodies and harmonies.

  • @BrucknerMotet
    @BrucknerMotet 5 лет назад +76

    It always gets me how great their memories must be to play for 2 straight hours without sheet music.

    • @richardjames7360
      @richardjames7360 5 лет назад +20

      @Don P Indeed. And the French Suites, and the Partitas, and the Golberg Variations as well.
      it's all a bit depressing for the rest of us mortals, really!

    • @Cespinozas
      @Cespinozas 4 года назад +6

      Richard James most classical pianist I saw on a Bach documentary said they practice book 1 and 2 for a few hours each day . Since they are scales and harmonies

    • @Ardepark
      @Ardepark 4 года назад +3

      Training and muscle memory.

    • @jamesrockybullin5250
      @jamesrockybullin5250 4 года назад +30

      Trust me, his memory is one of the less remarkable things about his piano playing.

    • @markpeters5291
      @markpeters5291 4 года назад +13

      I was going to comment, but I've already forgotten what I was about to say!

  • @orvillewrightjr9330
    @orvillewrightjr9330 2 года назад +25

    Sir Andras Schiff's performance of Bach's English Suites is at an apex where technical prowess, incredible control and serenity intersect to create a revelation. I've just discovered these pieces and know that I will be listening to them many times hence, they're just so ultimately enjoyable and immensely calming to me. Thank God for Sir Andras Schiff and Johann Sebastian Bach!

  • @lorenzonanni5689
    @lorenzonanni5689 6 лет назад +31

    absolutely inspiring how maestro Schiff brings Bach's to life. Outstanding and sublime at the same time

    • @Richgard11
      @Richgard11 3 года назад +1

      Quite so! Schiff provides excellent talents skills with passion that can be seen from his literally pouring himself into the music so it’s not merely mechanical.

  • @quaver1239
    @quaver1239 5 лет назад +17

    Exquisite. Perfect. And such a happy musician! Thank you, J S Bach, Andràs Schiff and RUclips.

  • @therightmusic7639
    @therightmusic7639 4 года назад +60

    His memory and concentration abilities are amazing. Quite a challenge to play all these suites in one concert by memory. And his understanding and interpretation of Bach music is, without a doubt, among the best ones. It would be great to see and listen to him perform them at Proms. Bravo Maestro Schiff!!!

    • @mckavitt13
      @mckavitt13 4 года назад +6

      His memory & concentration are indeed extraordinary.

  • @danieldarabos8693
    @danieldarabos8693 4 года назад +21

    Wow, thank you! This throws me right back about 15 years ago when I was there attending. One of my most memorable concert experiences ever. His absence is so depressing for the hungarian cultural world.

    • @bryancooker175
      @bryancooker175 3 года назад +2

      How are you doing today my name is Bryan

    • @kevinmaestroful
      @kevinmaestroful Год назад +1

      Wow, how I wish I were there too. What was it like live? Did you overhear what others in attendance thought of the concert ?

  • @MacphersonAghah
    @MacphersonAghah 6 лет назад +26

    This is very beautiful. sweet ornamentation. Bach's music is supreme.

  • @user-eu3bt4ji4k
    @user-eu3bt4ji4k Год назад +2

    Какую же прекрасную память надо иметь, чтоб так прекрасно сыграть это сложнейшее сочинение, слушать это исполнение - высшее наслаждение для души.💐💐💐

  • @LukeWelchPianist
    @LukeWelchPianist 3 года назад +60

    How does Maestro Schiff make everything seem so effortless? What an incredible performance - inspirational and humbling all at once!! BRAVO!!!!

    • @georgescompositions8872
      @georgescompositions8872 2 года назад +5

      perfect technic makes it look effortless.

    • @biggreenlzrd
      @biggreenlzrd Год назад +3

      I wonder if most people know how much effort it takes to learn Bach's keyboard music, let alone play it with this level of mastery. The dedication behind the scenes by Schiff is the real triumph.

    • @mikepen3477
      @mikepen3477 11 месяцев назад

      The sweat visible at 34:28 and 34:49 indicates it may not be entirely effortless

  • @babayaga66
    @babayaga66 6 лет назад +36

    Virtuosity of the highest order -- technical brilliance meets sublime passion!

  • @SMORAME
    @SMORAME 3 года назад +17

    When we listen to a high-quality instrumentalist like Andras, there is nothing left but to be ecstatic at such accuracy and skill for those of us who love classical music.

  • @josefsekon8966
    @josefsekon8966 3 года назад +9

    A true musician/pianist in all respects and pleasure to hear!

  • @andrewwiemken6443
    @andrewwiemken6443 4 года назад +11

    Never seen him get quite as riled up as he was during that last Gigue. Only with his rock solid integrity does that kind of passion really work with this music.

    • @user-eu3bt4ji4k
      @user-eu3bt4ji4k Год назад

      Может, не разозлился, а разгорячился, воодушевился.

  • @orbanvityu
    @orbanvityu 6 лет назад +54

    Thank you Sir Andras, for all your recordings. Best. I can listen to them all day long. You are the greatest. God bless you.

  • @tonydarcy1606
    @tonydarcy1606 4 года назад +13

    A man at the top of his game !

  • @adamcox8607
    @adamcox8607 4 года назад +14

    You can see the awe in the audience's faces for the 4th Gigue.

  • @lilianwriterMemoirs
    @lilianwriterMemoirs 7 месяцев назад

    Sir Andras Schiff performs this Bach suite like an expert novelist creating his work all in one piece, simultaneously: characters, plot, action, colors, sounds, conflict, suspense, resolution, drama. To do so would be impossible. And so is Sir Andras. He IS the music. Thank you.
    Lilian Duval, U.S.

  • @bachopinbee5991
    @bachopinbee5991 6 лет назад +52

    My God!!! What can I say?! Other than being so grateful for the unique gift given to humanity! Andras Schiff,you are a flowing inspiration to all generations. Bach is really felt alive under your hands,Thank you for all the shared journey can wait to keep walking alongside you.

  • @GabrielLeni
    @GabrielLeni 3 года назад +23

    I still haven't found any other pianist but Schiff that plays with such elegance, good taste, flow and artistry. Of all pianistic interpretations of Bach's keyboard music, I stay with Schiff.

    • @GabrielLeni
      @GabrielLeni 2 года назад +3

      @@reginacoelimanilla9084 i know them all, and stick to Schiffs interpretation. Some of the artists you name shine with either neurosis or narcissism, in their oral expression as well in interviews. Schiff's work expresses sincere humility, and its therefore more beautiful.

    • @blindiris22
      @blindiris22 Год назад +3

      @@GabrielLeni I like Schiff the best out of that lineup, as well. How do you feel about Gould, though?

    • @GabrielLeni
      @GabrielLeni Год назад +2

      @@blindiris22 one just can't love Gould. He is beyond genius in many respects. I still enjoy Schiff better than Gould. I think that Schiff captures the humble, religious and deep spirit of Bach's music. Gould's Bach is almost a mystical approach, he seemed to be captured in an intellectual trance and his unique interpretation of what Bach had to sound like. I like Tatiana Nikolayeva's Bach too.

  • @germancardoso3587
    @germancardoso3587 4 года назад +3

    Andras Schiff is a master as regards Bach performance on piano. This pianist has an astounding memory to remember all the English Suites !!!!!!

  • @rioazul23
    @rioazul23 2 года назад +6

    Thank you for posting these beautiful suites from Bach.

  • @jamesa901
    @jamesa901 4 года назад +5

    I think he'd play exactly the same way - same intensity, same feel, same everything - regardless of whether he was playing alone in a room, playing for his mother, or playing in a concert hall with 2,000 people...

  • @zsoltszomora78
    @zsoltszomora78 3 года назад +6

    Wow, thanks for posting this video! I attended this concert at the Music Academy of Budapest, February 2003. Remembering it so vividly ever since.

    • @guiyomppojjac4493
      @guiyomppojjac4493 3 года назад +4

      You listened directly this concert? Wa....... I really envy you.😲

    • @zsoltszomora78
      @zsoltszomora78 3 года назад +4

      @@guiyomppojjac4493 I did, as young man, I was 23, feeling in heaven with Bach's music. Afer the concert, I took the night postal train from Budapest back to my city. It was freezing cold. I remember everything so vividly, which is no wonder after this miracle. And as far as I know, this was the last time Schiff had played in Budapest. He has not returned to his home country ever since. :(

    • @SzerenkeesLukrecia
      @SzerenkeesLukrecia Год назад

      @@zsoltszomora78 It was after 2011 that he refused to put his feet in Hungary. As @Sheila Novitz summarized here: ruclips.net/video/WfdjHyciN3E/видео.html&lc=UgyWj7VWAJRBxdYLbLF4AaABAg.9_27dIq54VW9_qNQPXE0_R

  • @ShadowZZZ
    @ShadowZZZ 6 лет назад +143

    Suite 1: 1:13
    Suite 2: 21:40
    Suite 3: 40:49
    Suite 4: 58:05
    Suite 5: 1:15:58
    Suite 6: 1:36:07

  • @allenbauman2202
    @allenbauman2202 5 лет назад +11

    Simply marvellous. Schiff is electrifying!

  • @jjgbg222
    @jjgbg222 3 года назад +5

    so calm, so perfectly played, just as Bach would have hoped

  • @dominiquelarueenchantez-vous
    @dominiquelarueenchantez-vous 3 года назад +4

    Thanks for sharing. It's a pure pleasure to listen to Andreas Schiff playing the piano.

    • @bryancooker175
      @bryancooker175 3 года назад

      How are you doing today my name is Bryan cooker

  • @georgesmelki1
    @georgesmelki1 2 года назад +4

    "This is what I have to say about Bach's life and work: listen, play, love, revere, and keep your mouth shut!".
    Albert Einstein

  • @dominiquelarueenchantez-vous
    @dominiquelarueenchantez-vous 3 года назад +2

    I often come to listen to these English Suites and it's alwayls the same pleasure to hear and see playing Sir Andras Schiff. Thanks for sharing. Cheers from France.

  • @grantwoolard
    @grantwoolard 3 года назад +8

    Schiff's endurance is insane

    • @johnvalentine4720
      @johnvalentine4720 3 года назад +3

      Don't forget the audience's as well, but seriously I love Bach.

  • @oscarguzman39
    @oscarguzman39 6 лет назад +18

    Outstanding, celestial music. Many thanks for uploading this present for the hart and also for Maestros Bach and Schiff.

    • @mckavitt13
      @mckavitt13 4 года назад

      Celestial would do. Who needs 'outstanding'?

  • @attilakisgergely2255
    @attilakisgergely2255 2 года назад +5

    Köszönet Bachnak meg neked is Andrâs nagyon szèp😊

  • @francoisrossignol7961
    @francoisrossignol7961 5 лет назад +4

    Ouff..., ce prélude en Ré Mineur!! J'ai eu l'impression d'avoir retenue mon souffle jusqu'à la toute fin.

  • @finaparapar15
    @finaparapar15 10 дней назад

    Me encanta como toca con los ojos cerrados sin equivocarse éste pianista es un genio gracias

  • @Rorschachcollision
    @Rorschachcollision 3 года назад +15

    I have come back to this performance so many times. Wonderful for studying physics and mathematics to.

  • @Mpiman
    @Mpiman 4 года назад +6

    The best Bach performer...ever

  • @bernadettebenati3318
    @bernadettebenati3318 Год назад +4

    more Bach, more Schiff for 2023!

  • @sheilanovitz8578
    @sheilanovitz8578 2 года назад +3

    Phenomenal memory, playing with eyes closed and a great love for the music which he plays flawlessly. How privileged we are, being able to listen to this without having to travel to Hungary!

    • @ginaabadi4923
      @ginaabadi4923 2 года назад

      7

    • @spicy7302
      @spicy7302 2 года назад +1

      This was performed in Wigmore Hall, UK. I'm pretty sure Andras Schiff vowed to never go to Hungary again because of political reasons?

    • @sheilanovitz8578
      @sheilanovitz8578 2 года назад +3

      @@spicy7302 : You’re quite right in some respects. This was a concert given in Budapest, Hungary, in Feb. 2011. Not in Wigmore Hall. Confirm this by watching from the very beginning, where it says so. It was after that 2011 concert that the ruckus erupted. Schiff experienced, as everyone visiting Hungary nowadays does, the regenerated anti-Semitism and anti-Roma attitudes and behaviour. Hungary was about to become something special in the EU, and Schiff wrote to the authorities wondering whether Hungary was ready for this, given its extreme right-wing policies. CRASH. Hungary and Hungarians have not ever forgiven him for this, and nationalists threatened to cut off his hands if he should ever again set foot in that country. So he didn’t, and probably will not ever do so. And that is it. (You will recall, if you have been at the Wigmore, that it doesn’t look anything like this concert hall! Nor does it have this capacity.) Hope you don’t mind my being such a know-it-all. :)

    • @spicy7302
      @spicy7302 2 года назад +1

      @@sheilanovitz8578 Oh, thank you for correcting me! I really thought this was Wigmore, just a 2011 "version" of it, and as for the entire ruckus, thank you for explaining it to me in detail, now I know more about the backstory of his self "exile" :D. And I've never been there sadly as I'm not english or from the west :( but unless he retires in the next few years, maybe I'll get to hear him play there in person one day. His playing is just so different from anyone else's, it's incredible, I have no clue how to even reproduce one note like he does, let alone an entire piece.

    • @sheilanovitz8578
      @sheilanovitz8578 2 года назад +1

      @@spicy7302 : Thank you for replying. I hope you do get to hear András Schiff playing one day. Well worth it. If you’re in Japan, South Korea or Israel, he plays quite frequently in those countries, especially in Japan. I notice you have used this. “ :D. “ Please, can you tell me what this means? I have no idea, have asked many people, but have received no answers! I’d be very grateful for a reply. (Good information exchange!)

  • @ericofelix2005
    @ericofelix2005 7 месяцев назад

    His live performances always captures the best sound, the recording, the reverb, everything was so beautiful!
    Much more than the studio album.

  • @SergeSmirnoff
    @SergeSmirnoff 6 лет назад +4

    Stas Voihanski, thank you so much for this wonderful live recording at Budapest Academy of Music, Hungary, 11 February 2003!
    Schiff's introduction to Bach English Suites with short analysis (from DVD with this performance recording):
    Suite No 1 : ruclips.net/video/ZhKHMGOlsCE/видео.html
    Suite No 2 : ruclips.net/video/_Fg2RvcVhIw/видео.html
    Suite No 3 : ruclips.net/video/mhfh9j7Pmkw/видео.html
    Suite No 4 : ruclips.net/video/s6JbItZjLCc/видео.html
    Suite No 5 : ruclips.net/video/bTvaYrryyGk/видео.html
    Suite No 6 : ruclips.net/video/5sN2KmGleSI/видео.html

  • @arianedefouquieres3803
    @arianedefouquieres3803 3 года назад +2

    Extraordinaire interprétation ! Sobriété et lyrisme. Magnifique Bach. Merci Abras Schiff

    • @bryancooker175
      @bryancooker175 3 года назад

      How are you doing today my name is Bryan cooker

  • @AmericasChoice
    @AmericasChoice 11 месяцев назад

    He doesn't embellish or over dramatize the pieces. Just competent and full playing. Well done.

  • @anitamevius8300
    @anitamevius8300 Год назад +8

    Einfach wundervoll!

  • @angelisjoy4591
    @angelisjoy4591 4 года назад +5

    Outstanding! Andras Schiff is a genius!👏👏👏

  • @johnclendaniel4762
    @johnclendaniel4762 5 лет назад +9

    What a fantastic pianist! What sweet comfort to hear his playing! It is an objective fact that there are few human beings in our history who play so well. Not sure about the circles he moves in, but what a fantastic and accomplished individual!

    • @kevinmaestroful
      @kevinmaestroful 4 года назад +2

      I think he is too busy constantly moving in circles around the world performing and sharing his gift, what an amazing human being he is

    • @mckavitt13
      @mckavitt13 4 года назад

      Are you saying he goes in circles? His playing goes in circles? 🙆

    • @johnclendaniel4762
      @johnclendaniel4762 4 года назад

      @@mckavitt13 He's an excellent pianist, but sometimes I wonder if he doesn't have a poor moral character, or bad politics...

    • @mckavitt13
      @mckavitt13 4 года назад +3

      @@johnclendaniel4762 An intriguing idea. Whence comes it, may I ask? As a young man, he always seemed so pure to me & sometimes when I need calm, I play his Bach Preludes & Fugues. It is hard for me to imagine that he lacks integrity, but perhaps you know more about him than I do?

    • @johnclendaniel4762
      @johnclendaniel4762 4 года назад +1

      @@mckavitt13 As I said in my previous comment, it's those truly base and depraved conservative Christian Democratic circles he moves and shakes in in Germany and Elsewhere. How does a man stay clean and principled with such trash for Company? Perhaps it's a stoic meditative focus on the truly magnificent composer of Western Music, J. S. Bach, which he plays so beautifully, however, Schiff seems so relaxed and unstressed when so many principled people are facing such unacceptable and harsh persecution precisely for actually maintaining their integrity. I must say I'm skeptical, but would truly be delighted to find that he is as Clear as Crystal...as I said I'm skeptical. Of course I may know more than you, but that's my response.

  • @fernandosoares5812
    @fernandosoares5812 4 года назад +7

    Como é que este consegue tocar, de memória, esta obra que dura quase duas horas. Ainda por cima, numa interpretação correcta, sóbria, exacta. Fico parvo...

  • @vixdix1
    @vixdix1 6 лет назад +26

    ! a m a z i n g l y b e a u t i f u l , merci Bach! Merci Andras Schiff!

  • @ninaougi8892
    @ninaougi8892 3 года назад +2

    本当に素晴らしい❗️何年も聴いています💖

  • @soniaasbunaburdene2152
    @soniaasbunaburdene2152 4 года назад +8

    Andras plays Bach with high perfection !

  • @Capajazz
    @Capajazz 3 года назад +1

    This guy is a true genius, a monument should be made in his honour!

  • @rachs57
    @rachs57 4 года назад

    It is 6.7.2020, pandemic, street memorials for yet another Black man murdered, unemployment, hunger...the list keeps growing...but You Tube, I love you for making music available to balance Life's horrors...thank you. And thank you Stas.

  • @Me-ew8sr
    @Me-ew8sr 4 года назад +7

    I listen this pieces everyday :) such a great performance.

  • @MegaCirse
    @MegaCirse 3 года назад +2

    Like the first light of dawn, this music opens your eyes to new promises and to all the wonders of nature. Evocative of powers beyond observation, these pieces pull the strings of the heart, attract nostalgia and awaken the loves, the skinned lives and torpor of the sleeping watchmen

  • @shays2985
    @shays2985 11 месяцев назад +2

    I am lost in a trance listening to this masterpiece! Well done.

  • @andresfcastanoescritor
    @andresfcastanoescritor 6 лет назад +5

    the geometrical genius of Johann Sebastian Bach is atonishing

  • @AlbertoFerreras
    @AlbertoFerreras 6 лет назад +8

    Simply amazing!!

  • @nicovlahavas4982
    @nicovlahavas4982 3 года назад +2

    bach was so far ahead of his time that in several thousand years from his birth....he will still be ahead of his time...

  • @jonathanburroughs9380
    @jonathanburroughs9380 4 года назад +11

    An extraordinary talent playing a group of extraordinary works. A privilege and honor to hear

  • @victormanuelpadilla1845
    @victormanuelpadilla1845 8 месяцев назад +1

    ¡Felicitaciones! Por compartir este magnífico y extraordinario recital de un célebre y legendario pianista. Son excelentes sus interpretaciones del genio de BACH con una sensible, sublime y depurada técnica. ¡Saludos! Desde México.

  • @frankfeldman6657
    @frankfeldman6657 6 лет назад +11

    miraculous, endlessly inspiring