![]() ![]() Sixty-one years old and an undisputed master of the Germanic repertory, Schiff has earned the right to make this sort of pronouncement, although he delivered the remark softly and haltingly, with a sense of wonder. “It’s the most extraordinary trill in the history of music,” Schiff said, peering at my copy of the score. ![]() The other day, I sat with Sir András Schiff, the Hungarian-born, British-based pianist, in a practice room at Walt Disney Concert Hall, in Los Angeles, contemplating a great musical mystery: the trill in the eighth measure of Schubert’s Piano Sonata in B-Flat, D. Schiff says of the B-Flat Sonata, “What other work is so full of silence?” Illustration by Joost Swarte ![]()
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