Schiff has said he won’t perform in countries with what he calls strongmen leaders, a list that still includes the United States and Russia. By Adam Nagourney Mr. Schiff, who has refused to play in ...

In the opening lines of his recently published memoir, the pianist Sir Andras Schiff, born to Hungarian-Jewish parents in 1953, writes, “To begin with there is silence, and music comes out of silence.

Pianists are measured against one another by how they handle benchmark compositions. For instance, with their rigor and accessibility, Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations helped bestow master ...

It was the three big pieces (all published or labelled as "Keyboard Practice" by their tongue-in-cheek creator) specifically written for two-manual harpsichord: first the Italian Concerto BWV971, then ...

Part of the BBC Proms.Sir Andras Schiff’s Bach performances have provided some spellbinding evenings at the Proms in recent years. Tonight the great Hungarian-born British pianist, known for ...

I heard the first in person and watched online for the Beethoven, enjoying the backs-against-the-wall camaraderie of a live plague-era gig – temperature checks at the door; masked friends trying to ...

Carnegie Hall announced today that pianist Sir András Schiff must regrettably withdraw from his recital scheduled for this Thursday, March 31 at 8:00 p.m. as he recently suffered a fall and is not ...

The beauty of having written for All About Jazz since the early years is that I was given one of the first personal columns, “Bailey's Bundles," as named by publisher Michael Ricci. I have used it ...

Pianist Andras SchiffSchiff is back to wrap up a week of discussions on Beethoven with Fred Child. All week he's been talking about the four Beethoven cello sonatas. We close this week with Schiff's ...

Schiff is back for more discussion of a small corner of the chamber music repertoire, the four cello sonatas by Beethoven. Schiff performed them last summer with cellist Miklos Perenyi. He's joining ...