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I agree. He explained the pieces very clearly!😊

Moi , je ne suis pas étonné , mais émerveillé par cette musique ue Sir Schiff nous sert , avec gentillesse et non sans humour aussi ...Merci

Andras Schiff is an exceptional pianist, the concerts he moderates are unique, instructive and therefore very special. This man consists of music with every cell in his body, he lives music, breathes music and is surrounded by a very special aura. (Google Translate)

The sustain pedal has been called the soul of the piano, and the pianist crutch. The Silbermann Fortepiano J S Bach played on for Frederick the Great had a hand stop that could be pulled on by hand in imitation of the Pantalon a very large hammer dulcimer, and pushed off by hand. J S Bach neither had nor required a pedal to play a fugue. Sir Andras Schiff’s performances ignore history, but how is this any different than any other pianist in the last 124 years?

Is it even possible to play it with 2 hands with 5 fingers on each on a piano?

@@gottfriedwilhelmvonleibniz9033 Yes, it's actually originally a keyboard piece (one person two hands). Charles Rosen (maybe he was being a bit tongue-in-cheek, but I'm not sure) called it the greatest piano piece ever written. It's not too hard to find piano and harpsichord performances.

@@AnonYmous-ry2jn if you look at the manuscript (or any score of that fugue) it is not written on 2 lines for keyboard, but on 6 separate lines, each with a voice, without any instrument specified. I've always heard it played by a small ensemble, so that's why I asked. To play that on keyboard must be incredibly difficult

@@gottfriedwilhelmvonleibniz9033 I believe wrote 2 manuscripts, one in each form. I used to be slightly acquainted with a renowned music professor who not only told me he'd performed it many times on piano, but that he could read it and play it on the piano with the 6-staff score. I expressed surprise, and he said that reading scores like that at the keyboard is kind of a specialty of his. There is no doubt, by the way, that he was telling the truth - despite the seeming brag on his part, actually an enormously humble and unassuming person, not a trace of brag or swagger in his personality. One of the nicest people I ever met.

@@gottfriedwilhelmvonleibniz9033 My experience is, the difficulty of a fugue is not strongly correlated to the number of voices. In the 3-parts ricercar lots of things happen simultaneously and I guess it's rather hard to play, although I didn't try. But in the WTC there are 2 5-part fugues, and I don't find them harder to play than some 3-part fugues.

Renzo " do you respect me a little bit more now, Mr, Bogart ?" One of Peter Lorre's lines in " Casablanca"

@@janbonsema5888 …. I remember that well. But I don’t think he could have said, “Mr. Bogart” in the film.

yes that was when Peter Lorre handed mr. Bogart his new french passport that he had been able to obtain through his "slightly louche" contacts.But, you tell me the the roles that they played

@@janbonsema5888 Bogart, the actor, played Rick Blaine, the owner of “Rick’s Café Americain” I believe actor Peter Lorre’s character was named Ugarte. “Rick, I hope you’re more impressed with me, now.” Is the line.

Wow. Bravo.

Very important !