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18 July — 6 September 2025

Cycle «Change III» 2023 — 2025

Sir András Schiff

Tuesday 3 August 2021, Saanen Church

Chamber music

Tuesday 3 August 2021
(1) 6 pm | (2) 8.30 pm, Saanen Church

András Schiff was born in Budapest in 1953. His mother originally wanted to become a pianist, his father was a gynecologist and an amateur violinist. The Hungarian pianist becomes very impassioned when the conversation turns to the piano. “Technique is discussed so much today: ‘This or that pianist has great technique.’ But this is usually misunderstood – a pianist who is acclaimed by music critics today as having ‘great technique’ is usually someone who plays the fastest and the loudest without any wrong notes. In contrast, I consider great technique to be an endless and vibrant conception and imagination of tone and the ability to create this. The manner of creating a colorful palette of tones is important. A pianist who only hears two colors cannot create great art. In this sense I consider Alfred Cortot, who often played wrong notes, to have had great technique because he could create an unbelievable abundance of colors on the piano; millions of colors – like a great painter.”

This concert is being filmed and recorded and can be viewed at a later point on gstaaddigitalfestival.ch. The Gstaad Digital Festival newsletter will inform you about the details of its publication. 

Sir András Schiff, Piano

Music by Bach, Mozart, Brahms and Schubert80'
CHF 160/135/95/40