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Sir András Schiff

Piano Recital

Part of the Oxford Piano Festival 2017

Add to my Calendar 05-08-2017 20:00 05-08-2017 22:00 36 Sir András Schiff 'For the profit and use of musical youth desirous of learning' wrote JS Bach on the title page of his labyrinthine compendiumThe Well-Tempered Clavier. The twenty-four preludes and fugues of Book 1 offer an inexhaustible variety of musical ideas and contrapuntal experimentation. The Oxford Piano Festival's President, Sir Andras Schiff, whose all-Bach concert became a talking point of the 2015 Proms, will take his place at the keyboard for an uninterrupted recital of Book I of Bach's monumental essay in keyboard writing, set perfectly within the intimate Baroque surroundings of Sir Christopher Wren's Sheldonian Theatre. Please note no interval Part of the 2017 Oxford Piano Festival Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Sheldonian Theatre
Broad Street
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX1 3AZ
England

Programme

Johann Sebastian Bach – Das wohltemperierte Klavier I, BWV 846-869

Performers

András Schiff – piano

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Programme Note

'For the profit and use of musical youth desirous of learning' wrote JS Bach on the title page of his labyrinthine compendiumThe Well-Tempered Clavier. The twenty-four preludes and fugues of Book 1 offer an inexhaustible variety of musical ideas and contrapuntal experimentation. The Oxford Piano Festival's President, Sir Andras Schiff, whose all-Bach concert became a talking point of the 2015 Proms, will take his place at the keyboard for an uninterrupted recital of Book I of Bach's monumental essay in keyboard writing, set perfectly within the intimate Baroque surroundings of Sir Christopher Wren's Sheldonian Theatre.

Please note no interval

Part of the 2017 Oxford Piano Festival

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