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I wonder how it is possible to remember all this music without showing any effort or strain. Andra's is a genius

Schiff never recorded this. I’d love to hear his rendition of this masterpiece.

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Wonderful thank you for sharing. Andras Schiff is the best interpreter of Bach

Vielen Dank Herr Schiff!

Now, I find this very heart-warming. A Jewish-Hungarian great master of his art meets a young German-Iranian pianist in the center of Berlin to discuss music. One is almost a dissident who has never refrained from strongly criticizing his home country's more and more authoritarian far-right government, and who is, in the best sense, a citizen of the world. The other the daughter of Iranian dissidents who found refuge in Germany from the persecution by the theocratic regime in their birth country. Refuge in Germany of all places, the country that just half a lifetime earlier had gone on a murderous crusade against almost everything that its own as well as European culture had achieved since the middle ages. The same Germany which, nowadays, sponsors institutions like the Barenboim-Said Academy in whose premises this conversation took place. There is more than one astonishing, sometimes even ironic twist behind all this if you think about it. And despite their different religious and cultural roots, those two converse over one of the milestones of western music. Music conceived three centuries ago by a man who had barely ever left the closer realms of his birth region, much less the borders of what was then Germany. And yet a man who perfectly mastered all the styles of European music of his time and who joined them into something completely new and something so outstandingly perfect and beautiful that he is considered the father of western music. These two artists, old and young, both refugees in a way, both objects of hate for the small-minded nationalists and the narrow-minded theocrats, are the living examples of what the hate mongerers want to destroy. Freedom, peaceful conversation, exchange of ideas, cooperation, intellectual growth. This is what the rise of the far right all over the western world is taking aim at. If it succeeds, it will make us all poorer, not only materially, but, above all, intellectually and spiritually. Like the last coming of those forces, it would leave a desert. We must not allow them! And to give an answer to those unbelievably stupid words uttered by a former British prime minister. No, Theresa May, citizens of the world are not citizens of nowhere. They are the future of the world, nothing less.

Wonderful to learn a new pianist, I’ll have to listen to some of her recordings in better quality 😂

This young woman really knows what she is doing. I love it!

Wonderful presentation -- thank you! 🌞

Lieber Meister Schiff, Czerny war nicht der unmenschliche Etüdenschmied, für den er sooft gehalten wird. Seine Etüden(nur 10 Prozent seines Gesamtwerkes) sind im historischen (viel langsameren Tempo) einfache, aber schöne Musik.

Ein Traum. Wo sind die nächsten Konzerte?. Wundervoll, ergreifend. Und dann ist sie noch aus Deutschland dazu mit iranischen Wurzeln. Und sie spielt Bach. Und einfach so dass es mich sprachlos macht. Schiff ist ein wirklicher Großmeister in Sachen Bach. Und hier ist eine junge wundervolle "Nachfolgerin" sozusagen. Und beide sitzen hier am Flügel und diskutieren über eines von Bachs Meisterwerken.

U FORGOT THE TOCCATAS

Thanks for sharing. I truly appreciate this posting. 🙏😀

Köszönöm brake your tung... wanderful , thank you - I am Violetta from Kaunas , Lithuania - and in Lkithuanian is AČiŪ. God bless...

Andras Schiff (¨"Sir", et on se demande pourquoi...) son interprétation de Bach est celle d'un ordinateur, infaillible, mais pour ce qui est du coeur, pas d'harmonie, pas de phrasé, pas de legato... Il est vrai que sur un piano, sans utiliser de pédale, il part avec un lourd handicap, mais c'est son choix. Son refus de jouer les transcriptions de Bach par Busoni, Liszt, Saint Saens etc. auxquelles, en fonction de ce choix, il ne serait pas capable de s'adapter montre bien qu'il n'a rien compris à l'essentiel de Bach, lequel était le premier à copier et à adapter les oeuvres d'autres compositeurs. Il suffit de lire les partitions de Bach qui sont sans indications ni recommandations d'expression pour comprendre qu'elles n'en n'ont pas besoin tant on peut les deviner. Monsieur Schiff n'est pas devin, je lui conseillerais de s'atteler au clavecin, celà lui conviendrait parfaitement.

He always trashes Czerny 😅

I’m looking for this facsimile. Is there anyone who knows where I can find it by chance?

Amen

I love his lectures

Vielen Dank für Ihre Einführung, Herr Schiff. Bach ist mein Lieblingskomponist, aber ich hatte nie irgendeine Idee von diesen Inventionen.

i imagined bach thought french music was trash

i wonder where bach got the idea of french suites from or from some medieval transcription

i like the middle movement the most

the composer traveled the most documented is probably mozart and chopin i am thinking, correct me if i am wrong

i don't imagine bach traveled much since he exist in a clique of church organist and teaching

Why master? we mortals don't deserve your wisdom.

Why is his voice crystal clear but the piano is distorted? Is anyone else experiencing this issue!

still not amused to play Bach on a piano, its became fast tinkling

Herr Schiff gives us a very worthy masterclass.

What I find quite interesting is that the only extant manuscript of the French Overture is in C minor. Considering the 415 Hz tuning system, it sounds in fact in B minor today. I wonder why the rest of his works were not transposed a half tone below in modern printed editions... especially the WTC, as it completely changes the colors of the preludes and fugues.

Spettacolo assoluto anche in inglese perche la musica non ha origine dalle parole. Commovente .

Schiff recorded the complete keyboard works of Bach back in 1982-1985. Decca had the 11-CD set for sale so I bought it. I spent the next 15 years commuting to and from work every day (60 miles round trip) listening to all 11 of those discs. Thank you, Maestro Schiff, for helping to preserve my sanity on the Washington DC beltway during rush hour.

Hahahhaha

Several years ago I had the good fortune to hear Andres Schiiff perform at Davies Hall in San Francisco. It was an all Brahms concert, except for the single encore which was Bach's Italian Concerto (all three movements).

Looks to me like someone added those notes after the fact. The manuscript he is using is at IMSLP. The middle noteheads are smaller and clearly wedged in between the original sixteenths, which are spaced as the ones on the first beat. Also, their stems don't go all the way up to the top beam. It looks like a fake. There is a reason no one plays triplets. s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/6/69/IMSLP861542-PMLP03267-Bach-manuscript-P-610-Inventions.pdf

Is he using the pedal?

"We should never give up - hope" So funny when someone like Mr.Schiff says this :-)

what a great video! thanks for sharing this:) is this also available somewhere with better audio quality?

Pity about the sound quality; there seems to be some distortion, but only when the piano is played, not when Andras is speaking.

When she said she was introduced to KdF at 16, I immediately related to her. I found the work at the same age in the Marriner orchestration, and I still have the score I soon after acquired of Czerny's edition, now quite battered. At that age, the work was so eerie and mysterious to me. I'm not a pianist, but I learned some of the fugues. I also spent countless more hours following the score with several recordings I acquired after.

Einer der herzerschütternder Werke der gesamter Musikliteratur. Bitte hören Sie diese inter die Haut gehende Projektion von Reinhard Febel in einer kongenialen Interpretation von Yaara Tal und Andreas Groethuysen an: czcams.com/video/4K8u5hQ2pn0/video.html Dann von dieser Perspektive an betrachten Sie bitte diese "Introduction by Sir András Schiff & Schaghajegh Nosrati".

How did they mess the audio up so badly…

What's up with the sound quality?

Do we even realize how lucky we are to see the talent, the knowledge and the beauty of the genius here over and over again?

Great lesson.wish my teacher would have given me these insteadvof the vwellpemper claver. Thanks tovyou Andres

Sir Andras Schiff is one of the greatest musicians alive today, not only for his extensive knowledge of Bach's music, but for his musical vision in general ,and his enormous ability to appreciate the beauty of art. I agree with him in saying that Bach is the greatest composer who ever lived. Thank you for sharing this extraordinary video.

Grazie !

schade für die schreckliche Tonqualität wenn er spielt.Was für ein sampling benutzt dieses Video? Andere hier haben das gleiche Problem

Gracias por compartir conocimiento y experiencia maestro.

Just a great dialogue and discussion between two great pianists and minds ....coukd listen all day ❤