Third?? WHAT ??? So much for competitions ! Reminds me of Fred Astaire's audition ..Can't sing Can't act Can dance a little ! Andras Schiff is brilliant !
I was there and a lot of us thought he should have been 1st; BUT he came 3rd to amazing playing from Mitsuko Uchida 2nd, playing the Schumann, and Dmitri Alexeev 1st, playing the Prokofiev 3rd.
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Wow, playing like this in 1975 was definitely not common. The interpretation still feels fresh after nearly 50 years.
Absolutely priceless footage, thank you. I used to have a 60 mile round trip commute to the office... one day I purchased the 11-CD Decca set (recorded in the mid-1980s) of Schiff playing Bach's complete keyboard works. For the next 14 years Andras Schiff singlehandedly save me from losing my sanity in rush hour traffic. Thank you Maestro!
Mr. Schiff is a great pianist. It might just be me, but I don't like it when a musician adds notes and ornamentations to the works of Bach. To me, Bach was (and still is) the greatest music genius in human history. In my view, very few who ever lived even come close, if any. To think that someone can somehow improve on what Bach wrote, is kind of pretentious, at least in my mind. He knew his craft, and I'm sure was very careful when it came to ornamentation. Any one has his/her pet peeve(s). This is probably one of mine...
Do you also agree that Sir Andras Schiff is the best player of Bach? Watch his newer performance of this piece with the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra; it is just as good
@@Danleesixoneonetwofive Absolutely. he was and is still the new Glenn Gould, Thanks, I saw it and it is amazing, I believe that the new one is his mature version of the fascinating 1052
@@JorgeRzezak yes, I love the new recording. And I think he is a very mature soul in general. There is no decadence, nor indulgence. Just pure humility and dedication to music as envisioned by Bach.
@@Danleesixoneonetwofive I totally agree with you. Andras is living the music of Bach and make us the same effect. Also as you said, I love his humility, he does not need to be a divo.
You're right. I overlooked the ornamentations and the trills........ entirely. I'm just so use to him being the authority. Personally, I would like to hear these works played on the instrument for which they were written. The Harpsichord. But not the piano as we know it. The piano forte doesn't have that high pitched cling and silver clarity that the harpsichord has. I'm a student of the grand organ. Blessings on your day.
i wonder if he regretted momentarily making that embellishment at about 1'28" into the first movement - I love Schiff's embellishment of Bach which always sound as if Bach had written them himself but it makes him do a rare whoopsie! his recording of this concerto on Decca with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe is wonderful and even better than this, the slow movement in that recording is heartbreaking. And who knew Colonel Sanders has a second job?
Sir Charles was known as Sir Bogbrush by the wits of the Royal Liverpool, because of the bristly beard and because of an embellished photograph that went around the orchestra at the time. Actually I'm not a fan of Bach being played on the piano and prefer the harpsichord. I often wonder, though if performers of Bach's keyboard music actually feel the presence of the great man, as he wrote for himself and he was by all accounts a great show off. I feel in this concerto the wonder of Bach's own technique.
As a hungarian, I’m proud that he’s a part of our national and musical heritage. Me who was playing the piano since I was a little kid is delighted to see this much talent. Now I study new pieces/play old ones only for my or my family’s delight. Schiff is one of the few people that can play a piece with real intensity, because you see in my opinion you can’t truly be passionate about a piece if you’re not playing from memory. And this is the reason why I love hearing/seeing him play.
...and also the organisers completely disrespected him and Bach by not bothering to position the strings into a more acoustically sensible formation but put them so the additional players could come on for the Schumann and Prokofiev without having to rearrange the platform. That would never happen today.
Indeed, the chamber orchestra along with the conductor had barely passable coherence. Somewhat understandable in the make-shift / ad hoc situation. At least the piano remained prominent in this recording, albeit with some poor tuning.
sorry, but bach was NOT a fan of the piano. he eventually told silbermann that his pianos were adequate. bach wrote the transcription for harpsichord. and yes, it is a transcription of a lost violin concerto. all three movements were taken from various cantatas, so it was not an original work for a keyboard concerto.
I like jean rondeau's interpretation of allegro more, not only because it's on a harpsichord, but also because I prefer the sharper tone, here it feels too mellow
@@paulpomme2502 Yes, the late great Sir Charles Groves made a terrible choice from his wardrobe. I am still glad we have this recording with audio and video. The musicmaking here is extraordinary.
I remember this performance. I never expected to hear it again, but it remains one of my treasured memories of a great age of British Culture or rather European culture at a great period of our history when we were grown up and mature. Four years later the decline began with Thatcher and Murdoch and th insanity ad philistinism of Brexiteers, and Euro Sceptics. We had never heard of Nigel Farage. That shows how mature we were as a European Nation. The jury had a fixation on the large romantic concerti .It was a disgrace he only came fourth but I have never heard what happened to the first three since. The BBC and ITV had a cultural mandate .It as a great age before we crumbled into this chaos of fourteen years of Tory absurdity..
Yes..wonderful. He probably knew he wouldn't win playing Bach but he was true to his first musical love, reference his 2017-18 Well-Tempered Clavier survey at the Proms. You've got to play one of the big Romantic warhorses to win..Alexeev won playing Prokofiev 3 [predictably] and even Uchida was pushed into 2nd place playing the Schumann. They have both gone on to celebrated careers on the concert platform while Alexeev's star faded.
Dmitri Alexeev is one of the world's greatest pianists (of a legendary status) and has enjoyed a stellar career spanning decades at the very highest international level. In addition to performing in the most prestigious concert halls of the world and with the greatest conductors and orchestras, D. Alexeev has recorded a wealth of music; his interpretations are arguably the greatest ever. Your comment is highly disrespectful and ignorant. All three pianists are legendary and the results were completely fair. You're probably pushing politics...
