September
Piano recital: András Schiff
Sir András Schiff © Nadja Sjöström
Piano recital: András Schiff
Sat 17. Jan 2026
18.30
Grosse Tonhalle
Sir András Schiff Klavier
Schaghajegh Nosrati Klavier (Contrapunctus XIII)
Schaghajegh Nosrati Klavier (Contrapunctus XIII)
Johann Sebastian Bach «Die Kunst der Fuge» BWV 1080
Prices CHF 125 / 100 / 75 / 55 / 30
In Zusammenarbeit mit Hochuli Konzert AG
Shortly after his debut as conductor of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, András Schiff presents himself in a recital. The programme includes Bach's "Art of Fugue" - a work that the Hungarian pianist only played for the first time in a concert in 2024. This is all the more astonishing given that he has probably never studied any composer more intensively than Bach throughout his career: he once said in an interview that he starts every day with an hour of Bach. And he has long been recognised as one of the great Bach interpreters: His pianistic approach is "always playful, clearly structured and highly poetic", read a tribute to Schiff's 70th birthday in the NZZ: "approachable and otherworldly at the same time".