I almost cried reading these comments about Andras Schiff; I only discovered him a few months ago when I heard his interpretation of Bach's French Suites which have become my daily antidote to everything out there. Genius, angel, gift, its so sad sometimes that language cannot express, even in poetry, a depth of love and brilliance that such a person inspires with his playing.
Schiff is a treasure, a gift to us all, Janacek was a genius, and this brilliant young man provides a very accomplished performance of this great work, which Schiff ("there's not much to do") proceeds to take up several levels. And we get to observe. A wonderful respite from what is going on in the world these days.
Schiff is a marvel; a genius I believe. Music is his language more than English, Hungarian or German. Jean-Selim Abdelmoulah is enormously gifted, and towards the middle I was beginning to love the Janacek which I have not heard before. But Schiff ... he is simply Music personified.
Fascinating to follow the incredible depth of understanding of music that Schiff has. And he is able to explain it so clearly. Then, every time he touches the piano, a miracle happens.
Andras Schiff has such a compessionate soft way opening his feelings to all of us. This workshop, as he calls it, should be watched by all lovers of music.This it is much more than a lesson.
Schiff is such an enormous talent: keyboard mastery, theory and harmonic knowledge, vivid imagination and deep understanding of orchestral sonority. His Bach recording of the Well Tempered Clavier is genius. Firm but sympathetic teacher. Wonderful.
What particularly impresses me is the generous introduction Schiff provides for this young man and especially his capacity to listen to him and be the invisible one so that he can shine. His descriptions of the different emotional passages are fascinating , as well as the biography of the composer's motivations. His approach toward teaching seems to be especially gentle so as not to intrude on his student's emerging voice.
Oh .... This is GOOD. all about the Nuances. There is no greater and more Noble profession than Passing along Knowledge and in his Case Wisdom and deep deep thinking and Feeling the music. Thank you András Schiff.
I'm speechless. Even after more than 50 years of music making, including trying to master the Andante from this piece, mr. Schiff makes me aware of the fact that there's so much more to learn and to understand. Does a language exist that's more expressive and powerful than music ?
@@chrish12345 I dont read your comments anymore. It's wasting time to argue with an imbecile like you. You're talking for saying nothing, your life must be quite empty intellectualy. Good luck
@@chrish12345 You don't know what music is. You should play some masterpieces of the great composers, it will be obvious for you then that music is a language.
@@chrish12345 Ha! Because you have the pretention to think that what you say is intelligent or valid? My god, you are typical of those youtube narcissistics ignorants who think that they have something new and important to say! I will tell you again what I said many times: the whole world knows and more than that, feels that music is a language. All the great composers told that and knew it. But even more than that, it was my conviction way before I knew what the others thought about it. And you really think that I'm going to give credit and think about the weak and fakely dialectil "arguments" that you present here? Your arrogance has no limit man. You're trying to deny the evidence from the beginning, that music is the most universal language that exists! It rathers says a lot about yourself, and your need to go against an obvious and universal point of view, because it gives you the impression that you are superior to us, while it is in fact the opposite: you don't understand the incredible power of music and its essence. That's why you are certainly not a musician, and if you are one, a truly uncommunicative and materialistic one, who simply sees music as sounds.
A priceless video. How heartily I agree - the greatest drawback of a master class is that the student has to INSTANTLY do what is suggested. Schiff rightly points out that a lesson is an intimate matter between student and teacher who can peacefully show his student what to do, slowly, separate hands etc. if necessary, to get the effect that the teacher wants.
at 31:12....... all about Articulation. this is so very wonderful to witness a Student immediately remembers to not rush and articulate the next phrase a few bars later after Schiff suggested to him in the previous Ornament. THIS is what it is all about.
What a wonderful experience! M. Abelmoula is clearly a fabulous natural pianist and - more importantly - a deep musician and composer. Thus it was interesting to me that, while many masterclasses (including those of Sir Andras) are trying to get those with advanced pianism skills to *listen to the music*, here much of the focus was in fact back on the "tricks" - technical, and of coloration - of high-level pianism! As if Sir Andras was saying: you understand the music perfectly, but here's some ways purely of "delivering" it from the piano that you could use. Wonderfully sustained concentration from Sir Andras and Jean-Selim too!
Fascinating to hear the inaudible growing of depth in the play as the Maestro takes you off the surface of the piece and immerses you in the heart and soul of the meaning
Amazing how such music on the page would not scare a pianist - when one has to reckon with a great musician's mind and turn piano music into MUSIC then allof us are lost . You get the feeling even Sir Schiff is saying it(the music ) is way out there and we are all of trying to reach it . That most listener's dont even think about music just listen for the catchy parts makes one wonder why us composers feel this imperative to get it out . I love Beethoven's op.106 and even the little sonatas but after watching a few youtube seances with Perahia .Schiff and Pires I know it's like trying to hear a god . Wish I could give music - all art up . But I can't . A thankless profession but a joyful calling !
This was such a wonderful thing to watch. The stuff about "the present and the past" in the structure of the pieces has helped me see the cycle a lot differently.
Lovely video and excellent music making. There is an ever growing trend of supporting the lid of the piano by placing the supporting stick in the wrong place. Surprised to see it at the Wigmore. The piano on the left! There is a very real risk of the lid slipping and coming crashing down. I have seen it happen.
I always wonder how it would be to shift roles when the "student"s level is this high.. i would be curious to find out what he would have to point out when Schiff played..
I kept imagining references to shattered glass in the final piece, imaging Kristallnacht, fragments of glass, interwoven with invocation of Jewish folk melody. This is a profound piece.
There is the grace which only God can bring to a performance like this and a very well-bred man might I add which is most important when He plays for God's people.
Iattw piano competitions these days are so often worthless, jury decisions are typically informed by promoting their own students, there’s a lot of behind the scenes deals being made... and even if everything is above board, very often the ones who play fastest and loudest too often go through at the expense of the really interesting musicians.
"D flat min ;A lot of flats but not apartments" at 22;40 ...The old formula is; a min 3rd above the note Dflat = F flat ! = the relative maj = E maj=4 #s ! So could we think in C# min or is that Moonlighting?
I felt sorry for Andras and the student. Andras does not strike me as a pretentious person. He clearly felt uncomfortable... alas... we all have to earn a living somehow. Each pianist is great, one is young and one is old....the rest is up to the listener to enjoy. It is like chocolate for the ears. There are many brand of excellent chocolate.
You have understood nothing. Andras absolutely doesn't feel uncomfortable at all. He is a unique pedagog. As a pianist I am very inspired by many of his workshops or masterclasses. And he loves teaching and making masterclasses, it is obvious otherwise his masterclasses would not be so pertinent and inspiring.
Why did he hem and haw in the beginning with respect to what a Master Class is? He then basically explained it...could have saved some time there, Andras.
Well done Jean-Selim for choosing lesser known repertoire - great job of these four beautiful pieces. I love Schiff's pianism; the several Hungarians I've met were not known for few words!
Not everybody is a musician for one. Andras is so eloquent - it's always useful what HE thinks about a given subject.Not a waste of time - plus you can always forward it.
ChesterFanningChorno because some people like questioning the nature of their activities and the institutions they partake in rather than just going about their business without any kind of critical reflection. Typically this bizarre species of man is known as “intelligent” and gets singled out for possessing an “inquiring mind”. Weird, I know.
I almost cried reading these comments about Andras Schiff; I only discovered him a few months ago when I heard his interpretation of Bach's French Suites which have become my daily antidote to everything out there. Genius, angel, gift, its so sad sometimes that language cannot express, even in poetry, a depth of love and brilliance that such a person inspires with his playing.
Schiff is a treasure, a gift to us all, Janacek was a genius, and this brilliant young man provides a very accomplished performance of this great work, which Schiff ("there's not much to do") proceeds to take up several levels. And we get to observe. A wonderful respite from what is going on in the world these days.
Schiff is a marvel; a genius I believe. Music is his language more than English, Hungarian or German. Jean-Selim Abdelmoulah is enormously gifted, and towards the middle I was beginning to love the Janacek which I have not heard before. But Schiff ... he is simply Music personified.
Fascinating to follow the incredible depth of understanding of music that Schiff has. And he is able to explain it so clearly. Then, every time he touches the piano, a miracle happens.
Andras Schiff has such a compessionate soft way opening his feelings to all of us. This workshop, as he calls it, should be watched by all lovers of music.This it is much more than a lesson.
Schiff is such an enormous talent: keyboard mastery, theory and harmonic knowledge, vivid imagination and deep understanding of orchestral sonority. His Bach recording of the Well Tempered Clavier is genius. Firm but sympathetic teacher. Wonderful.
Schiff has a great ear for things. I get a lot from watching these masterclasses.
I love the world in which the tiniest fraction less pressure on a piano key matters this much.
Respect to the sound machine we recognize the genes of the Abdelmoula we all have special talents in our family 👏🏽
What particularly impresses me is the generous introduction Schiff provides for this young man and especially his capacity to listen to him and be the invisible one so that he can shine. His descriptions of the different emotional passages are fascinating , as well as the biography of the composer's motivations. His approach toward teaching seems to be especially gentle so as not to intrude on his student's emerging voice.
This is like watching a master sculptor and his student, carving a piece of beautiful marble to reveal the hidden form.
*Performance*
I. 3:30
II. 6:55
III. 10:04
IV. 12:51
*Masterclass*
I. 16:52
II. 33:08
III. 48:18
IV. 58:57
Tante grazie, Matteo! Saluti.
@@chambermuses7802 What are the pieces?
What are the pieces?
@@tombroughton6757 four movements from Janacek “In the Mist”
Oh .... This is GOOD. all about the Nuances. There is no greater and more Noble profession than Passing along Knowledge and in his Case Wisdom and deep deep thinking and Feeling the music. Thank you András Schiff.
Didn’t like or even get this piece first time through - by the end, captivated
I'm speechless. Even after more than 50 years of music making, including trying to master the Andante from this piece, mr. Schiff makes me aware of the fact that there's so much more to learn and to understand.
Does a language exist that's more expressive and powerful than music ?
perhaps math:/
esperanto
@@chrish12345 I dont read your comments anymore. It's wasting time to argue with an imbecile like you. You're talking for saying nothing, your life must be quite empty intellectualy. Good luck
@@chrish12345 You don't know what music is. You should play some masterpieces of the great composers, it will be obvious for you then that music is a language.
@@chrish12345 Ha! Because you have the pretention to think that what you say is intelligent or valid? My god, you are typical of those youtube narcissistics ignorants who think that they have something new and important to say! I will tell you again what I said many times: the whole world knows and more than that, feels that music is a language. All the great composers told that and knew it. But even more than that, it was my conviction way before I knew what the others thought about it. And you really think that I'm going to give credit and think about the weak and fakely dialectil "arguments" that you present here? Your arrogance has no limit man. You're trying to deny the evidence from the beginning, that music is the most universal language that exists! It rathers says a lot about yourself, and your need to go against an obvious and universal point of view, because it gives you the impression that you are superior to us, while it is in fact the opposite: you don't understand the incredible power of music and its essence. That's why you are certainly not a musician, and if you are one, a truly uncommunicative and materialistic one, who simply sees music as sounds.
A priceless video. How heartily I agree - the greatest drawback of a master class is that the student has to INSTANTLY do what is suggested. Schiff rightly points out that a lesson is an intimate matter between student and teacher who can peacefully show his student what to do, slowly, separate hands etc. if necessary, to get the effect that the teacher wants.
at 31:12....... all about Articulation. this is so very wonderful to witness a Student immediately remembers to not rush and articulate the next phrase a few bars later after Schiff suggested to him in the previous Ornament. THIS is what it is all about.
The humble teacher at His piano while His student plays His! Brilliant! I Cry inside...
Best music lesson ever.
What a wonderful experience! M. Abelmoula is clearly a fabulous natural pianist and - more importantly - a deep musician and composer. Thus it was interesting to me that, while many masterclasses (including those of Sir Andras) are trying to get those with advanced pianism skills to *listen to the music*, here much of the focus was in fact back on the "tricks" - technical, and of coloration - of high-level pianism! As if Sir Andras was saying: you understand the music perfectly, but here's some ways purely of "delivering" it from the piano that you could use. Wonderfully sustained concentration from Sir Andras and Jean-Selim too!
Fantastisch! Ich könnte ihnen den ganzen Tag zuhören!
Fascinating to hear the inaudible growing of depth in the play as the Maestro takes you off the surface of the piece and immerses you in the heart and soul of the meaning
Amazing how such music on the page would not scare a pianist - when one has to reckon with a great musician's mind and turn piano music into MUSIC then allof us are lost . You get the feeling even Sir Schiff is saying it(the music ) is way out there and we are all of trying to reach it . That most listener's dont even think about music just listen for the catchy parts makes one wonder why us composers feel this imperative to get it out . I love Beethoven's op.106 and even the little sonatas but after watching a few youtube seances with Perahia .Schiff and Pires I know it's like trying to hear a god . Wish I could give music - all art up . But I can't . A thankless profession but a joyful calling !
John Martin : My heart really, really goes out to you. Your thoughts and sentiments are echoed in me.
I also learned so much. An emotional tour through this piece.
🌻🌼🍀🍂🌻
Amazing performance! Bravo! 💙✨
Janacek.....magic.
Enthralled from the first minute. So insightful. Honesty is so rare today...
Why do you think he's being honest?
Beautiful composition, and great playing.
Brutal! Wonderful! What a Master!!
Que música maravilhosa, impossível não se apaixonar.
This was such a wonderful thing to watch. The stuff about "the present and the past" in the structure of the pieces has helped me see the cycle a lot differently.
Wow, such a nice masterclass!
Beautiful. Such emotions come out of your playing Jean-Sélim. Bonne continuation. Xxx
Terrific, magnificent, mesmerizing playing!! Bravo!
Bravo! Thank you for sharing this video.
Such a great lesson!
A piece of Heaven ! where great became greater.....and so on
The best pianists in the world let the music move them so much. Looks like they're gonna cry or fall off the chair.
Amazing.
Belíssima interpretação
Very much my lessons with Belgian Jean Beghon in Northeast Pennsylvania, decades ago.
Lovely video and excellent music making. There is an ever growing trend of supporting the lid of the piano by placing the supporting stick in the wrong place. Surprised to see it at the Wigmore. The piano on the left! There is a very real risk of the lid slipping and coming crashing down. I have seen it happen.
Beatiful :) 👏😊
I always wonder how it would be to shift roles when the "student"s level is this high.. i would be curious to find out what he would have to point out when Schiff played..
Se podrían añadir subtítulos en español por favor? Son fantásticas clases
This young man is very talented
Yes indeed. So much more musical and cultured
once you master technique you're half way there, interpretation is equally critical as Schiff so greatly demonstrates!
I kept imagining references to shattered glass in the final piece, imaging Kristallnacht, fragments of glass, interwoven with invocation of Jewish folk melody. This is a profound piece.
Bravi!!
How to make graceful touches and good interpretations that you need more carefully listen to on your inside sounds.
How old about first boy?
Marvellous video. He does sound very French (both his voice and piano playing), but most amusing how keen he is to emphasize that he is NOT French.
There is the grace which only God can bring to a performance like this and a very well-bred man might I add which is most important when He plays for God's people.
Andras sounds like he should be in a movie.
should have made it through to final ten at the Leeds, not sure what happened with the judging...
Iattw piano competitions these days are so often worthless, jury decisions are typically informed by promoting their own students, there’s a lot of behind the scenes deals being made... and even if everything is above board, very often the ones who play fastest and loudest too often go through at the expense of the really interesting musicians.
Iattw : plain old corruption?
He finished 3rd equal behind Alexeev and Uchida
انت عربي ؟
👍
24:05 what's polka is that???
ok wow this is so good that guy is almost as good as Chopin
He plays like He is molding clay with each finger tip! I feel.
What did he play the first?
It's one multi-part piece: In the Mist by Leos Janacek
"D flat min ;A lot of flats but not apartments" at 22;40 ...The old formula is; a min 3rd above the note Dflat = F flat ! = the relative maj = E maj=4 #s ! So could we think in C# min or is that Moonlighting?
I think Sir Andras Schiff is the person I would most want as my teacher.
12:44 did he die?
What piece is this
23:29
31:00
Weird, sounds like something I would write if I would have studied composition.
パイ擦り天国 Ok.
Coulda, woulda, but you haven’t and you won’t.
I felt sorry for Andras and the student. Andras does not strike me as a pretentious person. He clearly felt uncomfortable... alas... we all have to earn a living somehow.
Each pianist is great, one is young and one is old....the rest is up to the listener to enjoy. It is like chocolate for the ears. There are many brand of excellent chocolate.
Belgian chocolate..only.
You have understood nothing. Andras absolutely doesn't feel uncomfortable at all.
He is a unique pedagog.
As a pianist I am very inspired by many of his workshops or masterclasses.
And he loves teaching and making masterclasses, it is obvious otherwise his masterclasses would not be so pertinent and inspiring.
Why did he hem and haw in the beginning with respect to what a Master Class is? He then basically explained it...could have saved some time there, Andras.
Well done Jean-Selim for choosing lesser known repertoire - great job of these four beautiful pieces. I love Schiff's pianism; the several Hungarians I've met were not known for few words!
Not everybody is a musician for one. Andras is so eloquent - it's always useful what HE thinks about a given subject.Not a waste of time - plus you can always forward it.
ChesterFanningChorno because some people like questioning the nature of their activities and the institutions they partake in rather than just going about their business without any kind of critical reflection. Typically this bizarre species of man is known as “intelligent” and gets singled out for possessing an “inquiring mind”. Weird, I know.
I enjoyed that bit .