Yes, I recall that! He always has a wonderful sense of humour🎶

Absolutely! I particularly enjoyed the few moments of religious silence and recollection, before the well deserved standing ovation 👏🏻

Not with Schiff.

@Fritz_Maisenbacher Maybe you don't, but many do. You probably just need to clean your ears and stop poisoning yourself with Glenn Goulds butchering of the piano.

You answer the wrong person. I am not at all a fan of Gould, only for a few works. And certainly not the late Beethoven. But on this matter I share with Gould the same idol : Artur Schnabel. @@gicko2338

You're right - extraordinarily "complicated but outstanding" fugue by Beethoven.

Timing please

Minute 14:25

Arguably his piano Opus Magnum, certainly has a primacy in length!🎶

One of the most wonderful Fugati🎶

You are very welcome 🙏🏻 and you are absolutely right! What I really appreciate in Schiff’s interpretation is the honesty and the sense of proportions that he brings to music! Anyway I must also say that I admire the full commitment in Wang’s playing (…and of course her breath-taking technique!)

This Music's for thought ....But not enough listeners, yet , I hope so! BRAVO A.Shiff !

Thank you for your comment is very short and extremely beautiful and precise

Il fait voyager votre esprit🎶

If I recall correctly, in that particular lecture (or in a public conversation with IPO, also available on YT), M. Schiff said that probably the metronome mark was referring to the initial “Motto” (bars 1-4). After that, I agree with you, the piece is to be played most certainly with a flowing tempo, but still humanly playable.

La quarta di Brahms è un meraviglioso insieme di citazioni a Bach ma soprattutto a Beethoven!🎶

Hello, can I ask you what do you mean by there? Thank you

@@Farahmand1010, I mean that all the arduous parts around the sonata are simplified. I had faith and clicked on this video, but as soon as I saw the right hand at 0:20, I just gave up. 2:26 sounds just silly, the big chords at the beginning sound empty… I don’t know what Andras is thinking, I don’t care at all, he is just not doing justice to this sonata, which should have been feared by pianists after more than 200 years after its completion.

In his defence he is in his late 60s and he doesn't have a large reach, but even in his youth he has simplified parts of music to make them more accessible I guess, notably Chopin's last prelude. Still an absolutely phenomenal pianist and teacher in my opinion, I really don't care if his technique isn't the greatest of all time.

@@chester6343, Pollini, at 80, recorded the Hammerklavier. Not a simplification to be seen. Schiff is a great musician, but I think he would be an even greater one if he made more mistakes.

@@MaScalo4508 recorded

Cortot had such good technique that Horowitz went to study with him. In fact he wanted to learn a certain technical trick. Cortot knew about this and never taught Horowitz what he wanted.

One of the greatest pianists and one of the greatest Hammerklaviers I have ever heard.

It's new territory because other people don't do it. I don't have a problem with leaving out a note here and there if It's barely audible so removing it doesn't sacrifice the musical quality and if it's just to make a passage more fluid and accurate sounding. But what Schiff did at the beginning of this was egregious.

I do agree! Unfortunately I can’t remove them since I don’t own the copyright of the video🙏🏻

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Totally wrong, all what counts is the inner ecstasy one feels when listening to music. And there is no authentic way how to play. The so called composers have anyhow copied all what they heard when entering the hidden world of music once created by our Mahashakti with their intuition key once given to them before their birth. And these great copy personalities have made themselves here and there mistakes they would correct today. Andras Schiff enters into the music as the copy personalities and let’s us feel the joy which the music was meant for. I am very happy to listen to the excellent performance of Andras Schiff, specially on his superior Bösendorfer grand piano.

Mmmm, Fudge (Homer voice) Just listened Yuga Wang play it after Schiff. She destroys him. Schiff is getting older but I've always felt there was something too delicate about his touch. His playing doesn't move me that much. Schnabel is probably my favorite Beethoven performer. I heard Murray Perihia play it live and it was epic!

@@lvb1770 Yuja's definitely more of a super-virtuosic player than Schiff, but the two have performed together before, and I doubt she'd appreciate you pitting them against each other. They're both wonderful pianists and I appreciate both of their performances of this sonata for different reasons.

@( . o . ) Oh crikey. You obviously were not at the concert. Schiff said, “When I was young I could play all the notes, but I didn’t understand the sonata at all. Nowadays it’s exactly the opposite.” He added, “But what must we do? Give up? I play it because it is one of the greatest marks of western civilisation.” So he apologised to his audience because he knew he could not play all the notes anymore. But the spirit of Beethoven is here in this performance, and his love and respect for the music. And his very, very deep knowledge. He knows his limitations, and is a humble person. His entire life is music. It is what he has lived for and is living for. Give him a break, please, you young experts. I hope that when you are his age you will be as filled with musical and life wisdom as Schiff is, and that you will be able to acknowledge your limitations as cleanly as he does. He is one utterly courageous man.

@@lvb1770 : Murray Perahia is his name. Yuja is a fine pianist, but I have also heard her play thirds when she should be playing successive octaves; every pianist worth their salt knows, when they play, exactly what they are capable of during any given performance, and they act accordingly. Yuja, however, is far from mature enough to understand the Hammerklavier as deeply as András Schiff does. And this shows in her renderings.

Schnabel was a brilliant pianist no doubt, and some of his interpretations are my favorites, but his only recording of op.106 is a mess, his outer movements are chaotic, accurate mostly but out of control