Franz Schubert (2015)

This double album represents a change of heart for pianist András Schiff, who once publicly ridiculed the idea of "playing Schubert sonatas on Graf fortepianos." He recounts his evolution and something of his philosophy in using a historical piano in an elegant booklet essay that some might find worth the price of admission. The same might be said of ECM's engineering here, which exceeds even its usual high standard and catches Schiff's whispered low notes with startling clarity. The recording was made in the chamber music ... Read More

This double album represents a change of heart for pianist András Schiff, who once publicly ridiculed the idea of "playing Schubert sonatas on Graf fortepianos." He recounts his evolution and something of his philosophy in using a historical piano in an elegant booklet essay that some might find worth the price of admission. The same might be said of ECM's engineering here, which exceeds even its usual high standard and catches Schiff's whispered low notes with startling clarity. The recording was made in the chamber music room of the Beethovenhaus in Bonn, where Schiff's piano -- an 1820 Brodmann model from Vienna, once owned by the last Austro-Hungarian royal family, not a Graf -- usually resides. Those absolutely opposed to historical performance are likely to be repelled by Schiff's reading here, which spends a great deal of time at low decibel levels. But listen again: Schiff finds a great deal that's new in the music. The closing Piano Sonata in B flat major, D. 960, is perhaps the best of all,... Read Less

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