Andras Schiff Plays Mozart: Box Set 21CDs (2015)

Sir András Schiff born 21 December 1953 is a Hungarian-born British classical pianist and conductor, who has received numerous major awards and honors, including the Grammy Award, Gramophone Award, Mozart Medal, and Royal Academy of Music Bach Prize, and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in her 2014 Birthday Honours for services to music.
The awards that Schiff has won include a 1990 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra) - English Suites by Bach; a 1990 Gramophone Award for a Schubert recital with Peter Schreier; the Bartók Prize in 1991; the Claudio Arrau Memorial Medal in 1994; the Kossuth Prize in 1996; the Léonie Sonning Music Prize in 1997; honorary membership in the Beethoven House in Bonn, awarded in 2006 for his complete recording of Beethoven's piano sonatas; the Italian prize, Premio della critica musicale Franco Abbiati, also for his Beethoven cycle in 2007; also in 2007, the Royal Academy of Music Bach Prize, sponsored by the Kohn Foundation, awarded to "an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the performance and/or scholarly study of Johann Sebastian Bach"; the Wigmore Hall Medal in 2008; also in 2008, the Klavier-Festival Ruhr Prize, for outstanding pianistic achievement; the Robert Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau in 2011; and in January 2012, the Golden Mozart Medal of the International Stiftung Mozarteum (of which there have been only four previous winners in 70 years).
He has been made an Honorary Professor by music academies in Budapest, Detmold and Munich and is a Special Supernumerary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Northern College of Music. In December 2013, the Royal Philharmonic Society awarded him its Gold Medal. He was created a Knight Bachelor in the Queen's Birthday Honours list of 2014, for services to music.

Tracklist:

CD 1
Piano Concerto No. 5 in D major, K175
Rondo in D major, K382
Piano Concerto No. 6 in B flat major, K238
Piano Concerto No. 8 in C major, K246

Andras Schiff piano
Camerata Academica des Mozarteums Salzburg
Sandor Vegh

CD 2
Piano Concerto No. 9 in E flat major, K271 "Jeunehomme"
Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major, K453

Andras Schiff piano
Camerata Academica des Mozarteums Salzburg
Sandor Vegh

CD 3
Piano Concerto No. 11 in F major, K413
Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, K414
Piano Concerto No. 13 in C major, K415

Andras Schiff piano
Camerata Academica des Mozarteums Salzburg
Sandor Vegh

CD 4
Piano Concerto No. 14 in E flat major, K449
Piano Concerto No. 15 in B flat major, K450
Piano Concerto No. 16 in D major, K451

Andras Schiff piano
Camerata Academica des Mozarteums Salzburg
Sandor Vegh

CD 5
Piano Concerto No. 18 in B flat major, K456
Piano Concerto No. 19 in F major, K459
Rondo in A major, K386
(edited by Charles Mackerras and Paul Badura-Skoda)

Andras Schiff piano
Camerata Academica des Mozarteums Salzburg
Sandor Vegh

CD 6
Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K466
cadenzas: Ludwig van Beethoven (i)
Andras Schiff (iii)
Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K467
cadenzas: Andras Schiff

Andras Schiff piano
Camerata Academica des Mozarteums Salzburg
Sandor Vegh

CD 7
Piano Concerto No. 22 in E flat major, K482
cadenzas: Andras Schiff (i)
Andras Schiff/George Malcolm (iii)
Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K488

Andras Schiff piano
Camerata Academica des Mozarteums Salzburg
Sandor Vegh

CD 8
Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K491
cadenzas: Andras Schiff
Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K503
cadenzas: Andras Schiff

Andras Schiff piano
Camerata Academica des Mozarteums Salzburg
Sandor Vegh

CD 9
Piano Concerto No. 26 in D major, K537 "Coronation"
cadenzas: Andras Schiff
Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major, K595

Andras Schiff piano
Camerata Academica des Mozarteums Salzburg
Sandor Vegh

CD 10
Concerto for 3 Pianos in F major, K242

Andras Schiff piano ? Daniel Barenboim piano ? Sir Georg Solti piano
English Chamber Orchestra
directed from the keyboard by sir Georg Solti

Quintet for piano and wind instruments in E flat major, K452

He inz Holliger oboe ? Elmar Schmid clarinet
Klaus Thunemann bassoon ? Radovan Vlatkovic horn
Andras Schiff piano

Ridente la calma, K152 3.51

Cecilia Bartoli mezzo-soprano ? Andras Schiff piano

Ch'io mi scordi di te… Non temer, amato bene, K505 10.19

Cecilia Bartoli mezzo-soprano ? Andras Schiff piano
Wiener Kammerorchester
Gyorgy Fischer

CD 11
Piano Quartet in G minor, K478
Piano Quartet in E flat major, K493

Andras Schiff Mozart's fortepiano (Anton Walter, Vienna c.1780)
Yuuko Shiokawa Mozart's violin (Mittenwald, Bavaria, mid-18th century)
Erich Hobarth viola, believed to have been Mozart's
(Carlo Antonio Testore, Milan, mid-18th century)
Miklos Perenyi cello (Sebastian Klotz, Mittenwald, 1770)

CD 12
Sonata in B flat major, K333/315c
Sonata in C major, K545
Fantasia in C minor, K475
Sonata in C minor, K457

Andras Schiff piano

CD 13
Sonata in A major, K331/300i
Sonata in A minor, K310/300d
Sonata in D major, K576

Andras Schiff piano

CD 14
Sonata in F major, K533
Sonata in B flat major, K281/189f
Sonata in D major, K311/284c
Sonata in C major, K309/284b

Andras Schiff piano

CD 15
Sonata in D major, K284/205b
Sonata in G major, K283/189h
Sonata in C major, K330/300h
Sonata in F major, K280/189e

Andras Schiff piano

CD 16
Sonata in C major, K279/189d
Sonata in E flat major, K282/189g
Sonata in F major, K332/300k
Sonata in B flat major, K570

Andras Schiff piano

CD 17
12 Variations on "Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman", K265/300e
Andante "fur eine Walze in eine kleine Orgel"
(for Mechanical Organ) in F major, K616
Rondo in A minor, K511
Adagio for Glass Harmonica in C major, K356/617a
Minuet in D major, K 355/576b
Eine kleine Gigue in G major, K574
Adagio in B minor, K540
10 Variations on "Unser dummer Pobel meint", K455

Andras Schiff piano

CD 18
Piano Music for four hands
Sonata in C major, K521
Andante and 5 Variations in G major, K501
Adagio and Allegro in F minor, K594

for a mechanical organ
Sonata in F major, K497

for a mechanical organ
George Malcolm, Andras Schiff piano
performed on Mozart's own fortepiano (Anton Walter, Vienna, c.1780)

CD 19
Lieder
Masonic Cantata
Ariette, K308
Die Zufriedenheit ("Was frag ich viel"), K349
"Komm, liebe Zither", K351
"Ich wurd' auf meinem Pfad", K390
Lied zur Gesellenreise, K468
Der Zauberer, K472
Die Zufriedenheit ("Wie sanft, wie ruhig"), K473
Die betrogene Welt, K474
Das Veilchen, K476
Lied der Freiheit, K506
Die Alte, K517
Die Verschweigung, K518
Das Lied der Trennung, K519
Als Luise die Briefe, K520
Abendempfindung an Laura, K523
An Chloe, K524
Das Traumbild, K530
Die kleine Spinnerin, K531
Sehnsucht nach dem Fruhlinge, K596
Der Fruhling, K597
Kleine deutsche Kantate, K619

Peter Schreier tenor
Andras Schiff piano

CD 20
Sonata in C major, K545
Rondo in A minor, K511
Menuet in D major, K355
Eine kleine Gigue in G major, K574
Fantasie in C minor, K475
Andante fur eine Walze in eine kleine Orgel, K616
Rondo in D major, K485
Sonata in B flat major, K570

Andras Schiff fortepiano (Anton Walter, Vienna, c.1780)
performed on Mozart's own piano, in the room where he was born

CD 21
Sonata in G major, K379 (373a)
Sonata in E minor, K304 (300c)
6 Variations in G minor, K360 (374b)
on "Au bord d'une fontaine" (Helas, j'ai perdu mon amant)
Sonata in B flat major, K454

Yuuko Shiokawa violin (Mittenwald, Bavaria, mid-18th century)
Andras Schiff fortepiano (Anton Walter, Vienna, c.1780)
performed on Mozart's own piano, in the room where he was born

2015 Box Sets MP3 320 CBR Discography Classical

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