Schiff, Andras > Post Romantic Period

Smetana: Polkas / Andras Schiff, piano

1 CD / Apex / 2011-09-27

Works: Bedrich Smetana: Salon Polkas (3) for piano, JB 1; Poetic Polkas (3) for piano, JB 1; Polka for piano in F minor, JB 1; Polka for piano in A major, JB 1; Souvenir de Bohême en forme de polkas (M...
Performers: Schiff, Andras

Highly regarded as the Father of Czech music, Bedrich Smetana was a naturally gifted pianist, composer and choirmaster. A patriotic man, he loved incorporating the...continue...
Recording information: Teldec Studios, Berlin (01/1998)....continue...

Solo Piano Music of Haydn, Schumann, Handel, Brahms, Reger & Smetana [Box Set]

6 CD / Teldec / 2007-08-21

Works: Franz Joseph Haydn: Sonata for Keyboard no 32 in G minor, H 16 no 44; Keyboard Sonata in G major, H. 16/40; Sonata for Keyboard no 53 in E minor, H 16 no 34; Sonata for Keyboard no 58 in C major, H 1...
Performers: Schiff, Andras

Artist Portrait - András Schiff

1 CD / Warner Classics / 2004-08-10

Works: Robert Schumann: Arabeske for piano in C major, Op. 18; Nachtstück no 3 (Mit grosser Lebhaftigkeit), for piaon in B flat major, Op. 23/3; Béla Bartók: Concerto for Piano no 3, Sz 1...
Performers: Höbarth, Erich; Kulhan, Jaroslav; Panocha, Jiri; Perényi, Miklós [Cello]; Schiff, Andras; Schmid, Elmar; Sehmoutka, Miroslav; Shiokawa, Yuuko; Várjon, Dénes
Conductors: Fischer, Iván; Holliger, Heinz; Haitink, Bernard
Ensemble: Budapest Festival Orchestra; Dresden Staatskapelle

"Schiff's playing can be either delicate as porcelain or bold as brass; he can tease, storm, sing or hold his listeners captive with a rapt...continue...

Songs of Debussy and Mozart - Juliane Banse, András Schiff

1 CD / ECM Import / 2003-04-29

Works: Claude Debussy: Beau soir; Clair de lune; Pierrot; Apparition; Quatre chansons de jeunesse - 1. Pantomime (Debussy); Fêtes galantes (3), song cycle for voice & piano, Set I, L. 80; Ariettes oubl...
Performers: Banse, Juliane; Schiff, Andras

The multi-lingual Juliane Banse is supremely at ease with the fine poetry she is called upon to sing in German and French on this disc....continue...

Janacek - A Recollection / András Schiff

1 CD / ECM / 2001-06-19

Works: Leos Janácek: In the mists (V Mlhách), pieces (4) for piano, JW 8/22; Sonata 1.X.1905 "From the street"; On the overgrown path; Reminiscence for Piano
Performers: Schiff, Andras

"No matter what he plays, Schiff is a stranger to exaggeration, but not to the expression of intense emotion. And he combines extreme sophistication with...continue...

Music for Two Pianos - Mozart, Reger, Busoni /Schiff, Serkin

2 CD / ECM Import / 1999-10-05

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Fugue for 2 pianos in C minor, K. 426; Sonata for 2 Pianos in D major, K 448 (375a); Max Reger: Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Beethoven for 2 pianos, Op. 86; Ferruccio B...
Performers: Schiff, Andras; Serkin, Peter [Piano]

With a safe degree of certainty, one could predict that any disc pairing pianists Peter Serkin and Andras Schiff in not-quite-so-common works by Mozart, Reger...continue...