Imagine a musical whodunit where the solution is Andreas Staier on the fortepiano with pedal and his own ornamentation. The mystery is what is an excellent performance of some of Mozart's keyboard sonatas? Staier has exceptional musical judgment, which makes these sonatas graceful, but not too refined or elegant, and he also creates an outstanding ...
Andreas Staier is a period keyboardist of exceptional ability and an inexhaustible interest in repertoire and instruments, properties recognized by Atlantic Classics' Teldec imprint, who engaged Staier as an artist on an exclusive basis from 1995 to 2002. Afterward, Staier went to Harmonia Mundi; ironically, Staier's contract with Teldec ran out ...
Recordings such as this one are completely fascinating from a historical perspective. The violin used is Beethoven's own, though he himself was not a violinist. It is from a quartet of instruments made in Salzburg circa 1700 (the exact maker is unknown) gifted to the composer around 1800. The fortepiano heard on the recording was built in 1824, ...
Something is a little confusing about the title of Hamburg 1734, the Harmonia Mundi disc by ace harpsichordist Andreas Staier. Is this a collection of music heard, specifically, in the city of Hamburg, Germany, in 1734? Right off the bat one notices the Handel Chaconne in G major, HWV 435, and realizes that this could not be right; although Handel ...
There are two surprising things about this Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm recording of Brahms' Piano Quintet in F minor by the Leipziger Streichquartett and Andreas Staier. Of course, it is not surprising that the sound is clear, clean, vivid, and immediate; that's the way MD&G recordings always sound. And of course it is not surprising ...
This album is almost unthinkably bizarre, but it's more than just a curiosity. The vis-à-vis referred to in the album title is the name of a musical instrument of the late eighteenth century. Only two survive today. Its maker attempted to split the difference between the harpsichord and the fortepiano, which by the late 1770s were vigorous ...
Here's a Bach disc that's unusual in two respects. First is the relationship between music and instrument. Historical instrument specialist Andreas Staier uses a reproduction of a 1734 harpsichord that wouldn't have been known to the young J.S. Bach -- the music on the program was written during the first decade of the eighteenth century. The ...
Christoph Prégardien's Challenge Classics recording of Schubert's Die Schöne Müllerin with pianist Michael Gees was so excellent that one wonders what he could possibly do for an encore. How about Schwanengesang, with his other piano partner Andreas Staier? That's a heck of a good idea; although Prégardien has recorded some selections from ...
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