i've been listening to masterclasses by all of the greats lately and no one can touch the depth and clarity of schiff's discussions. what a god among men and a treasure to us all.

This man forgets more about music in one day than I will ever learn in a lifetime. Literally.

How is it possible to have such a memory.

If only Schubert would see that from heaven. András Schiff, you are a treasure.

Having watched a few videos with Sir András now, I am staggered at the lengths to which he goes, not just to play his music but to share his knowledge with us. What a treat to be able to attend his concerts. Nga mihi nui, Sir András, from aotearoa.

Sir András is a Treasure. I learn so much from him.

Sir Andras Schiff ist einzigartig - als Interpret und als Musivermittler. Danke!

30:52 on trills (decorative, prolongating sound, expressive, nachschlag) 36:08 on fermata 41:49 on the importance of rhythm as a means of structural coherence 51:05 on dactyl 63:32 on ppp (triple pianissimo) using a silk layer in front of hammers 68:15 on andante 68:45 on execution of ostinato (Sarabande-like) 90:55 on execution of fortepiano (bell-like) 99:20 on the difference between diminuendo and decrescendo Let's help by listing some important issues discussed.

Oh heaven, it is so beautiful, I weep with joy, and with so many other emotions. Grateful to you, Andras Schiff, for your brilliance, insight, and humanity! What a miracle you are, to have Schubert sing to us through you!

This is wonderful in every way. The recorded sound of the piano is superb - thanks to the engineers.

Wonderful. How privileged we are, being able to listen to this brilliant man play and teach with kindness and humour.

One of the very few, who explains, Harmonik and melodic happening . Bravo !!! I did also like that, during my teaching years !

40:15 stunningly beautiful, wish this part went on for longer in the Sonata

he is so wonderful

This is my take on the final movement(as if spoken by Schubert): "The life goes on, much as it has when I was around, but without me. That G octave is saying "I AM DEAD". It is a realization of the fact that universe does not revolve around me". Absolutely chilling, this G octave for me is one of the most powerful moments in western music!

Simply astonishing

I wish he would do a lecture-recital of Schumann. He would be an ideal one to explain Schumann the way Schumann should be told.

Such an interesting lecture. A pleasure to listen to it! Thank you very much for sharing!

21:40 Sir Andras Schiff is a genius of music and didactic!

Great!!!!

Wow, can't believe this was uploaded 3 days ago! I have been listening and relistening to all of Schiff's lecture recitals, wondering where I would find more of this kind of content. What a treat! Edit: please upload the version with better audio, this one is really hard to listen to

Thank you a lot for these lecture-recitals - they teach me so much about music and the skills which went into the composition and interpretation of these pieces. I love Schiff's recordings, what a great artist. Edit: It is regrettable though that there are some glitches in the encore-before, and that the framerate doesn't match the quality of the audio!

*The best pianist of the world :)*

BRAVO !

Лучший! Обожаю сэра Андраша Шиффа!

Pure enchantment!!! Thank you very much

Thanks for re-uploading this brilliant lecture. Absolutely superb. Please could you put the original version up as it didn’t have the frame rate problem? Thanks.

He's special Musician, Unique--very clearly mind & explanation, like his great playing! "Shubert's not German composer--he's speaking by dialect" & so on... BRAVO❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

When he asks the audience to sing 🥺🥺🥺

I admire the explanations given in the language of harmony rules always keeping the frame of music feelings which are beyond of any mental explanation. Let’s not forget that the entire note system has been worked out by Bach and a compromise had to be created in order to change from one tonality to the next. To my opinion the receptors in us who bathe in bliss when listening to music and give us ecstasy of happiness are totally independent and are in some respect related to our chakras. Is it not remarkable that one day I sing constantly silently a melody. I go to a concert and listen to classical music and while going home this melody is demanded and sing it again. This is a phenomenon which many experience and in the German language we call it Ohrwurm (worm in the ear). What I want to say is that music can well be analysed by the mental rules of harmony theory and at the same time measured by the joy and happiness we feel.

Puzzling, at 1:31:55 or so, Andras Schiff claims that we don't have evidence Schubert knew late Beethoven quartets. I always heard that Schubert requested a performance of Op. 131 towards the end of his life, commenting "After this, what is there left to write?" Perhaps that story's apocryphal; I assume Maestro Schiff knows more about this than I do. Still struck me as strange. Wondered if anyone else has heard this story?

42:38 Bb Bb A Bb C D 1:15:20 2nd mov second theme 1:16:20 4 Impromptus, Op. 90, D. 899 - No. 3 in G-Flat Major, Andante 1:36:48 4th mov Second theme chorale

Starts at around 7:45

Fun to imagine that Wigmore Hall was originally built by C. BECHSTEIN (and not their historic rival, S & S)

Very exiting!

Thank you for the webcast and upload. I noticed the frame rates were lower than usual in this video and yesterday's concert by the Danish SQ. Hopefully they can be set right for a wonderful viewing experience.

Muy buen análisis con la interpretación adecuada.

About the finale of Schubert’s B-flat sonata: maybe the connection with the rest of the sonata is that life goes on after all. He isn’t dead yet!

What is the finale of 960 about? Well it’s quite simple. Schubert hallucinates again and believes he is a rabbit escaping from Death disguised as wolves chasing him. He runs through a meadow and once in a while pauses and looks back to see if they are after him. Then Death comes and tries to convince him to come along, first in a menacing and then in a soothing way. No, says Schubert the rabbit, I’d rather be a rabbit forever. And the piece ends.

a pity that his fantastic musicianship is ever so worsened by the audio errors

i like this recital a lot. Please thumb up and comment below if you think that (despite the triptych nature of them) the greatest CD ever would be a double CD of the following pieces: d959 and 960 and also d 887 and d956

30:45 This was like the start of a Victor Borge moment!

It starts about 7.30

Why are there so many sound glitches??

30:52 is my favorite part

unbelievable magic 🪄 so much wisdom insight and craftsmanship ! in the realm of gods themselves

I think that identifying the end of the slow movement with "Death" is incorrect. To do so makes both final movements seem superfluous. Rather it represents a moment of profound despair. Schubert was driven by his need to say all he had to say in his remaining time. Giving up was not an option. Hence the grim determination and forced jollity that underlies movements 3 and 4. You find a similar situation in the finale of the great String Quintet. In his way, Schubert was as heroic as Beethoven.

What is the piece at the beginning, please?

Isn´t it wonderful? I think that also I want to become an english "Sir".

Name of the piece first played please!!

Very interesting lecture recital by Schiff. As usual with this artist, he offers very interesting insights, and on occasion offers ideas which are debatable to say the least. To assert that Schubert wasn't influenced by Bach in his later works is not a convincing. The "ground bass" of Der Doppelgänger is based on the subject from Bach's C-sharp minor Fugue (WTC Book 1), as are sections of the Mass in Eb (1828). Schubert could indeed write well contrapuntally: see the F Minor Fantasy for four hands, the String Quintet in C, and the A minor four hand Allegro, D.947. The fugue in the A-flat mass isn't too shabby either. As for the the finale of the B-flat Sonata not belonging to the work: just nonsense. What Schiff really means is that Schubert's finale (which wasn't abandoned as in D.840 for example) doesn't fit HIS conception of what Schubert ought to have written. This reminds me of those who wished Schubert had written a different finale for the Sting Quintet in C..for those wanting to have even a quick look at the score, the motivic connection to the other movements is obvious. This is no Unfinished Symphony..

1:21:43 😢

20:00 min mark: so how was the concert? Me: I *was* the concert

Go directly to 7:40

7:19 1:48:10

The quality of the upload isn't great. The prelude was glitchy,and the frame rate for the rest is poor.

As a wanna-be-composer this is invaluable!

1:21:20

Admirable and knowledgeable he might be, everything is so subdued in his interpretations, he avoids any extremes. I don't know if that really does Schubert full justice. Richter had perhaps used the "wrong edition", but instead he takes the listener on a transcending journey and into deep abysses of the soul, which for me make it possible to experience the piece and also Schubert as a composer very vividly in our day and age. No offence, but for me, this is far more than the rounded and civilised, somewhat bourgeoisly beautiful and narcissistic manner of Schiff's interpretation.

Start at 7:18 Thank me later💁🏼‍♂️

30:45

2:21:25

So anyone has an idea what is the connection between the last movement and the rest of the sonata? :D

Starts at 7:25.....😂

Caro Maestro : mi sembra che Franz nel Allegro ma non troppo, vuole rappresentare la Morte chiamando al Campanello della porta, e come non vorrebbe morire scappa cantando la semplice canzone…! Ma la morte, continúa a bussare la Campana….

Il lungo trillo mano sinistra pp , i tuoni lontani …

Habla mucho y quiero escuchar el concierto