Sitting calmly at the keyboard he moves but slightly, yet his tone ranges from the most delicate to extreme tempestuousness when, for example, he plays intense passages from a Beethoven sonata. Sir Andras Schiff’s exudes an inner calm and spirit of relaxation, as if he were playing in his own living room, seemingly unaware of the audience. Knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 2014 for his “service to music,” Hungarian-born Schiff continues, in his 67th year, to concertize, record, conduct master classes world-wide, and take on specialized conducting projects. His repertoire encompasses the greats of music: He has mastered the complete works of Bach, Haydn, Schubert, Bartok, and has recorded all 32 of Beethoven’s piano sonatas, which he likens to the New Testament of music. He can speak about his art with authority. At a recent concert at London’s Wigmore Hall (2021), before beginning to play, he regaled the audience with …