b. 1953 Hungarian-British pianist Schiff studied at the Franz Liszt Academy, Budapest, before winning prizes at both the Moscow Tchaikovsky (1974) and Leeds (1975) piano competitions. Having appeared with most of the world’s major orchestras, he has focused increasingly on chamber and solo repertoire, recording the keyboard works of Bach (on the piano), the Mozart and Schubert ...
a less astringent, warmly lyrical style, but he died (of leukaemia) just as these were beginning to achieve widespread popularity. Recommended Recording: Piano Concertos Nos. 1–3, András Schiff, Budapest Festival Orchestra (cond) Iván Fischer (Teldec) Béla Bartók: Works Stage works: Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, opera (1911); The Wooden Prince, ballet (1917); The Miraculous Mandarin, dance ...
a song-cycle about death, and the last of his great cycle of string quartets is in six, mostly sombre, slow movements. Recommended Recording: Cello Concertos, Heinrich Schiff, Bavarian Radio SO (cond) Maxim Shostakovich (Philips/Decca) Dmitri Shostakovich: Works Operas: The Nose (1928); Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (1932) Ballets: The Age of Gold (1930); The Bolt ...
well as accompanying his wife, the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, on the piano, he frequently appeared as a conductor. Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | (Sir) András Schiff | Contemporary | Classical ...
(Frants Shoo’-brt) 1797–1828 Austrian composer Described by Liszt as ‘the most poetic of all composers’, Franz Schubert (1797–1828) was both the heir to the great Viennese classical tradition of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, and the first true Romantic composer. In his short life, spent almost entirely in Vienna, he was known almost exclusively as a composer of songs ...
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