András Schiff Plays Bach: Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 903

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The voicing in the fugue! What a miracle! A true master, as always.

Remarquezle tempo de la fugue après la Fantaisie ne bouge pas... mis à part quelques cadences !

C est une sorte de méditation improvisée et c est la seule œuvre aussi Libre d inspiration de Bach, ❤elle pourrait être même plus moelleuse, perso je la joue comme cela ! Presque plus capricieuse. 😢😮

Me parece que suena mejor en Clavicordio que en piano, además le da un toque mas de la época de Bach. Sin embargo, la interpretación es excelente.

Beautiful

Hmm sounds better on harpsichord for sure

How satisfying!

Tremendous performance! It is sad that this outstanding performer loathes the country of his birth and its people. Moreover, he announces this to the whole world to hear.
Leonard Bernstein onced remarked about Wagner: "I hate Wagner, but I hate him on my knees,"
I feel something similar about Mr. Schiff.

Probably the best piano interpretation of this piece I have heard over the years, Maestro Schiff never disappoints.
... even though, also over the years, I have come to view this piece as one of the very few pieces by Bach that actually sound better on a harpsichord than on a piano. As much as I appreciate Schiff's work here, he did not change my mind :)

Personally I prefer this work in harpsichord! but this version is very special because it is a piano played in the harpsichord style and the use of pedals is almost non-existent! It feels very staccato notes! thank you mr Andras

The fact that we are allowed to comment and even criticize this performance is ironic. Magic fingers commanded by his imagination and understanding. Beautiful voicing. Such a great interpretation so different from others like Gould. What precious golden tone finger pedal I think Bach would have liked the sound of this piano and how it was interpreted.

Played very well but I'm just not a fan of this piece.

How does one remember the notes let alone play them !!!

Well, this piece of music is being borrowed in a 1991 Game Boy game - Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge

i love what he does with the Bach Pieces. on a side note, when we are getting interrupted by a commercial, for instance the guy that wants you to believe " Lot of People think it takes years to learn how to play the Piano......well here is a 'NEW Method' how you can learn piano in 3 Month or so " isn't that Precious ?!?

No bravos from the audience after such a performance?

Beautiful performance !

Fantasía cromática JS Bach. ,está maravilla ,no llegaban.grabadas acá donde vivo. 🇮🇷🙏😍 La exelencia 🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨✴️ 👏✴️

fantastique interpretation ! jouer apparament sans partition , bien qu un peu rapide par moment tout et juste et chaque note et audible separement ce qui et rare ! bravo et un grand merci a andras schiff pour ce moment hors du temps : pierre_xavier de chassot .

La fantasia cromatica e fuga crea un'atmosfera di sospensione dal mondo reale proiettando l'ascoltatore in quello delle idee nella magia di una dimensione metafisica.

Gran interpretación con gran energía de espíritu, de acuerdo con el espíritu alemán!

bravo!! genious!! thanks fren

His dynamics are so good, I love Andras Schiff

Beautiful smart playing.

Где же страстность, где же масштаб в Фантазии? Он просто уютно наигрывает!

Schiff could perfectly be a LOTR character without any makeup.

I really Love the way Mr. Shiffs is performing.
But we all know that that music was conceived for harpsichord.,.....
Bravissimo Schiff.

Er hat Bach wirklich verstanden - Kontemplation und Brillanz und alles, was diesen Erzvater der Musik so groß macht1

Bach would be beaming with pride if he had a chance to hear this performance.

Surprisingly Romantic sounding.

I really reaally fell in love with his performance style, how clear.... I'm glad to find this video playlist

The Chromatic and Fugue Fantasy BWV 903 is one of Bach's most original works. The extraordinary prelude is a prodigy of skill, a long continuously modulating meditation in which each bar changes pitch, leading to a tense finale of incredible audacity, which is followed by a three-voice fugue that is serenely approached, creating an anti-climax unique in Bach's keyboard music. Asking for metronome regularity from Fantasy is like asking for tranquility from the waters of a mountain stream. Andras Shift's interpretation is obvioulsy excellent although, for my taste, the fantasy arpeggios need to "breathe" a little more. Despite being an ideal piece to exploit the sound possibilities of the piano, for me the record of preference is that of George Malcolm (Decca, 1961) at a pèdal harpshicord (Goble ?).

With all these Bach that he is playing perfectly. I’m convinced Schiff has 2 brains.

Etwas Pedal dazu und es wäre großartig.

Its called interpretation !! To each his own

Its called interpretation !!

Is this a sewing machine?

What always amazed me about Schiff's playing is how his hands seems to glide across the keyboard so effortlessly. For me personally, my hands always feel so clumsy. I don't know how he's reached such a superb level of mastery and comfort in playing, but I hope one day to get even mildly close to that level of skill

Jaco brought me here

I don't even like Bach that much but this man makes me listen - what a special talent

Mein Gott, hab' Erbarmen.....

Where's the sense of harmonic tension?

Восхищена исполнением Баха этим исполнителем!

This here is some Bach playing! Musicianship of this caliber is its own authority.