Andras Schiff - Leos Jan?cek: A Recollection
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Artist: Andras SchiffComposer: Leos Janacek
Performer: Andras Schiff
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-06-19
Music Label: Ecm Records
Soundtracks:
- No. 1, Andante
- No. 2, Molto adagio
- No. 3, Andantino
- No. 4, Presto
- Presentiment
- Death
- Our evenings
- A blown away leaf
- Come with us!
- The Madonna of Fr?dek
- They chattered like swallows
- Words fail!
- Good night!
- Unutterable anguish
- In tears
- The barn owl has not flown away
- Andante
- Allegretto
- Pi? mosso
- Allegro
- Vivo
Music reviews of Leos Jan?cek: A Recollection
Music Review: Heart over Head
Rating: 5 Stars
Firkusny studied with Janacek...almost all reviewers agree that his interpretation is truest to Janacek's intent. Yet in head-to-head listenings, it's the Schiff performance that I prefer.
I find the Firkusny performance to be clinical and dry as compared to Schiff, who is more lyrical and poetic. Firkusny may be playing it how Janacek intended, but musicians are artists and are free to interpret a piece any way they like. For this piece, I choose Schiff's interpretation.
Description of Leos Jan?cek: A Recollection
It is pianist Andr?s Schiff's near total identification with Jan?cek's idiom that makes these performances so special. This affinity is felt immediately in his reading of In the Mists, in which Schiff is able to evoke the tranquility of the second movement as easily as he captures the folklike simplicity of the third. The date 1.X.1905 in the title of the Piano Sonata refers to the date of the shooting of a Czech worker by Hapsburg troops. The first movement, marked "Presentiment," is spookily atmospheric, while the chilling second movement, "The Death," leaves a powerful impression. Schiff demonstrates exemplary control, so that the effect is peaceful rather than meandering. On an Overgrown Pathis Jan?cek at his most concentrated: in particular, the very Czech lachrymose quality of "In Tears" is all the more powerful for its simplicity. Jan?cek's chosen range of keyboard sonorities is remarkably wide, and Schiff manages to use these to convey the full emotional spectrum. Although these performances do not displace Firkusny's for DG, they certainly offer an entirely convincing alternative viewpoint. ECM's exemplary recording sets the seal on this recommendation. --Colin ClarkeGeneral CDs
- Styles > Classical
- Chamber Music > General
- Featured Composers, A-Z > ( J ) > Jan?cek, Leos
- Featured Performers, A-Z > ( S ) > Schiff, Andr?s
- Forms & Genres > Short Forms > Character Pieces
- Sonatas > General
- Historical Periods > Classical (c.1770-1830) > Forms & Genres > Chamber Music
- Modern, 20th, & 21st Century > Forms & Genres > Chamber Music
- Sonatas
- Instruments > Keyboard > General
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