Schubert: Sonatas, Impromptus & Moments Musicaux

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[Schiff] shows how [the fortepiano's] muted, delicate sound can transform Schubert for modern listeners. Two of the piano sonatas, the G Major, D894, and the late B Flat, D960, speak to us as... — Financial Times, 9th May 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 7th Apr 2015
Catalogue No: 4811572
Label: ECM
Series: New Series
Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

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Schubert: Hungarian Melody in B minor D817

Work length3:25

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András Schiff (fortepiano)
Recorded: 2014-07-02
Recording Venue: Beethovenhaus, Bonn

Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 18 in G major, D894

Work length36:11

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András Schiff (fortepiano)
Recorded: 2014-07-02
Recording Venue: Beethovenhaus, Bonn

Molto moderato e cantabile

Track length15:50

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Andante

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Menuett. Allegro moderato – Trio

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Allegretto

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Schubert: Moments Musicaux (6), D780, Op. 94

Work length27:16

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András Schiff (fortepiano)
Recorded: 2014-07-02
Recording Venue: Beethovenhaus, Bonn

Moderato in C-Dur

Track length5:32

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Andantino in As-Dur

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Allegro moderato in f-moll

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Moderato in cis-moll

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Allegro vivace in f-moll

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Allegretto in As-Dur

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Schubert: Allegretto in C minor, D915

Work length4:49

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András Schiff (fortepiano)
Recorded: 2014-07-02
Recording Venue: Beethovenhaus, Bonn

Schubert: 4 Impromptus, D935

Work length34:18

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András Schiff (fortepiano)
Recorded: 2014-07-02
Recording Venue: Beethovenhaus, Bonn

Allegro moderato in f-moll

Track length10:43

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Allegretto in As-Dur

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Andante in B-Dur

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Allegro scherzando in f-moll

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Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat major, D960

Work length39:04

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András Schiff (fortepiano)
Recorded: 2014-07-02
Recording Venue: Beethovenhaus, Bonn

Molto moderato

Track length18:34

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Andante sostenuto

Track length7:49

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Scherzo. Allegro vivace con delicatezza – Trio

Track length3:59

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Allegro ma non troppo – Presto

Track length8:42

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Interview, Sir András Schiff on Schubert

7th May 2019

The Hungarian-born British pianist talks to Katherine about late Schubert, and ‘falling in love at first sight’ with the Brodmann fortepiano which he plays on his recent recordings of sonatas and impromptus on ECM.

Sir András Schiff’s reputation as one of the great interpreters of the work of Franz Schubert is long-established and he has always maintained that Schubert’s music is amongst the most moving ever written. Schiff underlined the point on his ECM New Series album with the C Major fantasies at the end of the 1990s, and he does so again on this remarkable recording. Two Schubert Sonatas (D894 & D960), the six Moments musicaux, Four Impromptus (D 935), the ‘Hungarian Melody’ and an Allegretto are addressed on a period instrument, the fortepiano. The pianist says: “My fortepiano was built by Franz Brodmann in Vienna in 1820. It is to me ideally suited to Schubert’s keyboard works. There is something quintessentially Viennese in its timbre, its tender mellowness, its melancholic cantabilità...It is in the quiet and quietest moments when Schubert - like nobody else - touches our hearts.”

Elsewhere in an absorbing booklet essay, Schiff notes: “Finding the right venue is essential. The room must not be too large, its acoustics, proportions, resonances and atmosphere should be ideally attuned to the needs of the fortepiano. Such a hall is the Kemmermusiksaal H.J. Abs of the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn.” It was there that these memorable recordings were made in July 2014.

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9th May 2015

[Schiff] shows how [the fortepiano's] muted, delicate sound can transform Schubert for modern listeners. Two of the piano sonatas, the G Major, D894, and the late B Flat, D960, speak to us as if in an intimate tête-à-tête. The Moments musicaux, D 780, and the Four Impromptus, D 935, smile with informal grace.

17th May 2015

Schiff’s Schubert is a known quantity: his comprehensive Decca set of the keyboard works remains a classic, but the sounds here are unexpected...Schiff, a self-confessed period-instrument convert, returns to the great G and B major sonatas, the second set of Impromptus and Moments Musicaux, making them sound hot off the press, fresh and new.

3rd May 2015

Schiff conjures wisp-like sonorities and never makes an ugly sound, and the Moments musicaux crackle with incisive effects. The smaller pieces work best, while the sonatas are quite difficult to sustain.

Classical Music May 2015

[The 1820 Brodmann instrument] sounds glorious: its tone and action seem ideally to suit these works…let us hope there is more to come.

International Classical Music Awards 2016

Many years after recording all the composer’s sonatas, Andras Schiff rethinks, on an historical Brodmann fortepiano, his approach to Schubert, underlining the intimate, almost confidential side of his music. Irony, sadness, intensity and gravity: the many facets of Schubert piano music are to be found in one of the most personal and valuable contributions to the recent discography.

Schubert: Sonatas, Impromptus & Moments Musicaux

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