[ Warners Classics / 6 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Monday 25 June 2007
"Schiff is unquestionably among the most gifted and mercurial musicians of our time; a 'masterpianist' indeed. His programme, too, is exemplary with Handel's theme heard again in Brahms's Handel Variations and with Reger's massive Bach Variations as a daunting and enterprising close. Schiff is admirably suited to the Handel suite, getting off to a bold and improvisatory start and continuing with much of his recognizable brio and originality." Gramophone
Gramophone Award Finalist - Instrumental (Gramophone 1999 on the Haydn)
NOTE: Cardboard box has some very minor wear
Brahms:
Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24
Handel:
Suite No. 1 in B-flat Major, HWVV 434
Haydn:
Piano Sonata No. 32 in G minor, Hob.XVI:44
Piano Sonata No. 33 in C minor Hob XVI:20
Piano Sonata No. 53 in E minor Hob.XVI:34
Piano Sonata No. 54 in G major HobXVI/40
Piano Sonata No. 58 in C major, Hob. XVI:48
Piano Sonata No. 59 in E flat major, Hob. XVI:49
Piano Sonata No. 60 in C major, Hob. XVI/50
Piano Sonata No. 61 in D major, Hob. XVI/51
Piano Sonata No. 62 in E flat major, Hob. XVI/52
Fantasia (Capriccio) in C major, Hob. XVII:4
Reger:
Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Bach, Op. 81
Schumann:
Arabesque in C major, Op. 18
Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6
Blumenstück, Op. 19
Etudes symphoniques, Op. 13
Gesänge der Frühe Op. 133
Nachtstücke, Op. 23
Kreisleriana, Op. 16
Theme with Variations in E flat major WoO 24 ('Geistervariationen')
Smetana:
3 Polkas de Salon,B94 Op. 7
3 Polkas poétiques,B95 Op. 8
Polka in F minor
Polka in A major
4 Souvenirs de bohème en forme de polka, B115-16 Opp.12-13
Polka in E major
Polka in G minor