Beethoven Sonata 32 in C minor, Op. 111 András Schiff

When I'm so deeply absorbed in a composer, as I have been with Beethoven, then I physically and mentally begin to feel like him. Beethoven changed me as a person. There are composers who enrich you and uplift you - Beethoven is the best example. As a composer and as a person, I feel he has a lot of generosity, I have enormous choices.
András Schiff, The Guardian, September 2008

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Music

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• Beethoven;
• piano
• Sonatas;
• Andras
• schiff;
• András
• Schiff;
• Classical

[qwepoijkldsa]

@MrSalimMilas where do you live? At the north pole? hehe

[MrSalimMilas]

I can't. =( I live too far away.

[qwepoijkldsa]

@MrSalimMilas

just go...!:)

[MuseDuCafe]

@FBIwannabe11 I do and have played music. No, that's just you. You can control that audience so they don't applaud your recital before the last notes decay. That applause only 'tells' you you made it through without obvious hitches. Most audiences, even the 'learned' amateurs, do not get half of what you didn't get quite right, nor half of what you did. Yes, acknowlegment is nice. You can control that crowd, though.

[FBIwannabe11]

@MuseDuCafe If you played music, you would know that every time you play, you feel like you must have messed up something. The applause tells you did everything right, and that you did it with feeling. After 11 years of playing the piano, I still find satisfaction in the applause when I stand up.

[MuseDuCafe]

What is with applauding the split second the last note has been played, while it still resounds in the hall? Clapping the Circus Feat a performer made it through? (They bought a ticket to hear a pro, so what's the surprise?) The audience congratulating themselves they sat through the entire piece, What?

[Alluredify]

Mr SalimMilas -- You might well be disappointed in trying to hear Schiff live, unless the recital was in a very intimate hall. He plays so softly you will begin to think your hearing is faulty. About half the volume, a concert presenter told me, of other well-known pianists. So you can perhaps be better satisfied with CDs. -- Alluredify

[MrSalimMilas]

Hello Mr. Wolleb,

The first time I listened to this recording here, well, I wrote my reaction as you can see. Now, I keep coming back to this recording, can't get enough of it. Obviously, Schiff must sound soooooo much better live, compared to a digital recording! Sigh.

Schiff is totally right about forbidding applauses immediately after certain quiet endings!

Also, check out Schiff's lectures on the Beethoven 32 on the internet, if you haven't already! I am going through them right now.

[MrWolleb10]

Hallo SalimMilas, some two years ago I had the joy to listen to Andras Schiff playing this sonata live in Kiel. Not only was it a revelation, imagine that after this movement the Arietta occured. It was the most silent and prayerful concert I ever experienced. After the last note faded away, Schiff prohibited any applause for several minutes by his frozen gesture. epiphany

[MrSalimMilas]

Brilliant! :))))) I'm almost crying right now. I only wish I could listen to Schiff live one day...