Chromatic Fantasy And Fugue

<p>About three years ago my friend Andrew sent me a mail asking whether I wanted to go with him to a concert in Carnegiehall that very night. He had two tickets and the girl he had asked for a date cancelled short notice (poor illiterate thing...). When I heard it was Andras Schiff and Beethoven I was all in, even though it was piano solo and I typically prefer orchestra when going to a concert. Of course it was a fantastic performance and the audience was giving standing ovations. So Schiff finally sits down in his second encore and plays Bach. New Yorkers tend to rudely rush out once the scheduled performance is over but this time almost everybody was captured by Schiff. I will never forget the following minutes when he played the chromatic Fugue in d. Sitting in my chair almost incapable of breathing while the most divine music was given as a second encore.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC8w5FHeE3g&feature=youtube_gdata_player</p>

Nice, Stephan! Very nice...