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Heinrich Schiff, conductor / cellist

Reviews

Schiff the conductor:

He gave Bruckner’s music a refreshing sense of musical necessity.
Stuttgart Radio Symphony/Bruckner Festival Linz/Bruckner 2

Schiff looks and moves like a born leader, his confidence and authority occupy a high level, and he commands an irrepressible personality in front of an orchestra.
Schiff is the real thing on the podium…his Beethoven was lean and muscular, with the orchestra hair-trigger responsive.
Los Angeles Philharmonic/Haydn, Beethoven, Zimmermann

He is an inspirer in whatever he does..one of the most invigorating Beethoven concerts I have heard in years. Guardian
This was a performance which lived on its nerves: for every note and phrase was freshly and excitingly re-examined and re-inflected.
Daily Telegraph

An all-Beethoven programme that out-Norrington’d Norrington in vigour, interest and articulated joy. Driven (but not pummelled) by a muscular beat that sculpted strong and sharply punctuated phrasing, it offered an Eroica Symphony that the most ditinguished Beethovenian, period or otherwise, would have been proud of…completely, irrefutably convincing.
Independent, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Beethoven.



Schiff the cellist:

Masterful intellectual command of the music’s structure, which permeates all his recordings, without sacrificing the expressive content…and a version of the Bach Cello suites yet to be bettered on modern instruments.
"Virtuoso cellists", Classic CD

Schiff is a performer who brings intellectual rigour to a fine technique, putting every phrase under the microscope, yeilding fresh and inventive renditions…The finale is perhaps the crowning achievement of this version – a stunningly joyous account where even the slightest nudge to a phrase is perfectly attuned.
Vienna Philharmonic/Previn/Philips, Dvorak concerto (Classic CD Collector’s Choice)

No living cellist can match Schiff for the velvet suavity of his sound…One of the Brahms year’s finest discs.
London Philharmonic/Sawallisch, Zimmermann/Brahms Double Concerto/EMI (Sunday Times)

A Schubert B flat trio that touched divinity; music-making of the highest order.
Trio Fellner/Zehetmair/Schiff at Edinburgh Festival, Beethoven, Webern, Schubert

Unmissable Beethoven…Schiff’s playing was intensely involving, his warm, perfectly judged sense of line always in ideal balance with the music’s classical poise and structural symmetries.
Fellner/Schiff at Wigmore Hall, Beethoven complete sonatas (Daily Telegraph)

Playing as true to the spirit of Bach as you could hope to hear.
Bach solo suites, Wigmore Hall