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Maurizio Pollini

Beethoven - Piano Sonatas Op. 31 & 49

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Claudio Abbado, Maurizio Pollini and Anna Prohaska in conversation (2011)
1 Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.16 In G, Op.31 No.1 / Allegro Vivace
2 Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.16 In G, Op.31 No.1 / Adagio grazioso
3 Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.16 In G, Op.31 No.1 / Rondo (Allegretto)
4 Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.17 In D Minor, Op.31 No.2 / Largo - Allegro
5 Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.17 In D Minor, Op.31 No.2 / Adagio
6 Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.17 In D Minor, Op.31 No.2 / Allegretto
7 Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.18 In E Flat, Op.31 No.3 / Allegro
8 Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.18 In E Flat, Op.31 No.3 / Scherzo
9 Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.18 In E Flat, Op.31 No.3 / Menuetto
10 Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.18 In E Flat, Op.31 No.3 / Presto con fuoco
11 Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.19 In G Minor, Op.49 No.1 / Andante
12 Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.19 In G Minor, Op.49 No.1 / Rondo
13 Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.20 In G, Op.49 No.2 / Allegro ma non troppo
14 Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.20 In G, Op.49 No.2 / Tempo di Menuetto
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Almost forty years have passed since Maurizio Pollini made his first studio recording of piano sonatas by Beethoven. His visionary interpretations of the composer's Piano Sonata opp. 109 & 110 on the Deutsche Grammophon label marked the beginning of an extraordinary artistic journey. The great Italian artist crowns his complete Beethoven cycle with this release of the Piano Sonatas opp. 31 & 49, a title certain to take its place in the pantheon of essential piano recordings. The new album, which was released on January 6 in the US, was recorded in the Herkulessaal Munich in 2013–14 and will also be released as part of an eight-disc box comprising Pollini's survey of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas.

  • A tribute to Maurizio Pollini from WETA's 'Classical Score'
    Posted At: March 28, 2024
    WETA's Linda Carducci writes…….We’ve had a wealth of great pianists to experience in our time – Alfred Brendel, Sir Andras Schiff, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Martha Argerich, Evgeny Kissin, Daniel Barenboim, Leif Ove Andsnes, just to name a few.  The respected Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini deserved and attained status within that lofty group, a pianist who took an intellectual approach to interpretation an...

  • Maurizio Pollini - Beethoven, 'The Late Piano Sonatas' is 90.1WRTI: Album Of the Week
    Posted At: January 18, 2023
    Beethoven – The Late Sonatas Opp. 101 & 106 marks the completion of Maurizio Pollini’s survey of the five late piano sonatas. His landmark 1970s recordings of these works were recognised at the time with a Gramophone Award. A few years ago the pianist decided to revisit the five sonatas, and in 2019 made an acclaimed second recording of the final three at the Herkulessaal in Munich. Now he has returned ...

  • KCRW: Rhythm Planet - spring mix includes latest from Lang Lang and Maurizio Pollini
    Posted At: April 16, 2019

    For Rhythm Planet's latest mix, I've selected 20 wonderful jazz, world, and classical tracks-mostly new but a few evergreens, too. I'll highlight some of them below.  New classical gems include Lang Lang playing Mozart's "Ah, vous dirai-je maman," better known today as "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." The Chinese superstar pianist suffered an arm injury and decided to revisit the classic piano pie...

  • Maurizio Pollini - Music of Chopin is the WFMT: Featured New Release
    Posted At: March 14, 2019

    Pianist Maurizio Pollini, "the pre-eminent Chopinist of his generation" (Fanfare), continues his revelatory re-exploration of the Polish master's late works. As in previous releases, Pollini performs compositions that are chronologically closely related, highlighting the individual character of each work in its context. These recordings are the pianist's latest thoughts on Opp. 55-58, including the B min...

  • Unmannered visionary of the keys - Maurizio Pollini, plays annual Orchestra Hall recital / Chicago Tribune
    Posted At: April 25, 2018

    Maurizio Pollini's annual recitals at Orchestra Hall have long since become contemplations at twilight of repertory he has trod many times before. So it was on Sunday afternoon when the great Italian pianist presented a program of late Chopin keyboard works and the second book of Debussy's Preludes. At 76, Pollini may no longer command the supreme technical authority that marked the pianist in his pr...

  • Maurizio Pollini - Debussy Preludes II is IPR: Featured New Release
    Posted At: April 5, 2018

    Released for the Debussy centenary in 2018, Maestro Pollini's new album features the second book of Debussy Préludes – recorded 18 years after his hallmark recording of the first book – as well as En blanc et noir, performed with his son and burgeoning pianist and conductor, Daniele Pollini. The long-awaited follow-up to Pollini's 1998 Book I of preludes, also includes Deb...

  • Maurizio Pollini - Debussy Preludes II is WFMT: Featured New Release
    Posted At: March 28, 2018

    Maurizio Pollini's new album features the second book of Debussy's Preludes – released 18 years after his hallmark recording of the first book. Completing the album is the two-piano suite En blanc et noir, performed with his son and burgeoning pianist and conductor, Daniele Pollini. The Guardian says of Pollini's Debussy: "(His) awareness of color and texture is as acute as ever. Never a pianist to...

  • Maurizio Pollini. Still one of the greatest pianists alive / The Independent
    Posted At: March 15, 2018

    There's never a spare seat at pianist Maurizio Pollini's London recitals, but in recent years they have all followed the same pattern. He comes on looking as though he would rather be anywhere than where he is, rushing into his first piece and making a hash of it, then gradually settling down and beginning to play with increasing conviction until by the encores he's playing like a god.  This tim...

  • Maurizio Pollini - Chopin Preludes on KPFA sounds quite beautiful / Radio Survivor
    Posted At: August 29, 2017

    My friend Sherry Gendelman played one of Maurizio Pollini's recordings the other day on her Piano radio show on KPFA in Berkeley CA. It was Pollini's version of the Chopin Preludes and reminded me of when he came to New York City in 1979 and played Carnegie Hall. This was a huge deal since he was already so famous and all. Since I worked at a then popular record store, somebody gave me a ticket a...

  • Maurizio Pollini receives the ECHO KLASSIK Award for 'Instrumentalist (Piano)'
    Posted At: July 27, 2017

    Maurizio Pollini receives the ECHO KLASSIK Award for ‘Instrumentalist (Piano). The ECHO KLASSIK trophies will be handed out on Sunday, 29 October 2017 during a gala event in the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall in Hamburg. All of the artists receiving an ECHO KLASSIK this year have made outstanding contributions to Classical Music in the 2016/17 music year. Their performances have brought aud...

  • Maurizio Pollini's 'all-Chopin' Orchestra Hall program gets a large audience, generous with approval / Chicago Tribune
    Posted At: May 29, 2017

    Maurizio Pollini came to wide attention in the music of Frederic Chopin nearly 60 years ago, and late in life he is revisiting scores of his defining success. His recital Sunday afternoon at Orchestra Hall originally scheduled Claude Debussy's Preludes, Book 2, as well as selections by Chopin, but the Debussy vanished in favor of an all-Chopin program, which attracted a large audience generous with a...

  • New York piano lovers hear two keyboard lions at Carnegie Hall / The New York Times
    Posted At: May 24, 2017

    New York piano lovers hardly knew what to expect over the weekend from two keyboard lions approaching winter. Was this to be a wallow in nostalgia? In melancholy? Happily, it turned out to be neither. Murray Perahia, 70, played at Carnegie Hall on Friday evening, and Maurizio Pollini, 75, followed there on Sunday afternoon, but there was little need to dwell on the past in a resplendent here and now. ...

  • Maurizio Pollini plays Kennedy Center - Fortas chamber series with emotion and brilliance / Washington Post
    Posted At: May 18, 2017

    Maurizio Pollini and Martha Argerich are often presented as the yin and yang of brilliant pianism: he, the intellectual; she, the instinctive. In real life, of course, no dichotomy is so straightforward. But the comparison lingered in mind on Tuesday night. A few months after Argerich, freewheeling and unorthodox, received the Kennedy Center Honor, it was Pollini's turn to take the Concert Hall stage on ...

  • Maurizio Pollini - Chopin Late Works / KDFC: Album Of the Week
    Posted At: April 10, 2017

    Tune in throughout the week for tracks from KDFC: San Francisco - Album of the Week. For the Week of April 10th, KDFC selects - Chopin: Late Works - Maurizio Pollini, piano.  After winning the International Chopin Competition over half a century ago, Maurizio Pollini adds an important new chapter to his ongoing interpretation of Chopin with some of the composer's most famous late works. On t...

  • Maurizio Pollini - Beethoven Piano Sonatas / WCRB 'CD Of the Week'
    Posted At: February 23, 2015

    Almost forty years have passed since Maurizio Pollini made his first studio recording of piano sonatas by Beethoven. His visionary interpretations of the composer's Piano Sonata opp. 109 & 110 on the Deutsche Grammophon label marked the beginning of an extraordinary artistic journey. The great Italian artist crowns his complete Beethoven cycle with this release of the Piano So...

  • Maurizio Pollini - Beethoven: Op 31 & 49 Piano Sonatas / WFMT: New Release Of the Week
    Posted At: February 1, 2015

    With this release, Maurizio Pollini has completed a 40-year project, presenting studio recordings of all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas. "[Pollini] has complete mastery of the piano, but something more that goes beyond the notes. There's a joy in his own virtuosity, the ease and freedom when so much energy flows through a performer with nothing to hinder the imagination." (BBC Music Magazine) The Pia...

  • Maurizio Pollini with Dresden Staatskapelle - Brahms: Piano Concerto No 2 is WFMT 'New Release Of the Week.
    Posted At: April 26, 2014

    WFMT - Chicago has selected Brahms: Piano Concerto No 2 in B-flat major, Op 83: I, Allegro non troppo by Maurizio Pollini, piano; Dresden Staatskapelle led by Christian Thielemann as a 'New Release Of the Week.   Recorded live in January 2013, this performance of Brahms' Piano Concerto No 2 reunited Maurizio Pollini and the Dresden Staatskapelle under C...
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