Maurizio Pollini
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Bartók - Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedMaurizio Pollini (piano), Shlomo Mintz (violin)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
Bartók and Pollini were made for one another - the bite and energy and odd restraint of these masterworks is ideally caught. Mintz does full justice to the Two Portraits. —
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Gramophone Awards, 1979, Winner - Concerto
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Grammy Awards, 22nd Awards (1979), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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For some time, Daniele has been under the shadow of his father; this release makes it clear that it’s time for him to emerge on his own. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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New. Frédéric Chopin: the winner of the 6th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, Warsaw, 1960
Maurizio Pollini (piano), Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Jerzy Katlewicz
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Schumann: Fantasie in C major, Op. 17 & Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 11
RecommendedMaurizio Pollini (piano)
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Building a Library, May 2016, Also Recommended
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Stravinsky: 3 Dances from Petrushka, Bartók: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedMaurizio Pollini (piano)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
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Gramophone Awards, 1979, Winner - Concerto
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Grammy Awards, 22nd Awards (1979), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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Pollini is not a pianist with a sense of humour, but his playing has a trim, classical cut with plenty of vitality, and a blunt, brusque Beethoven also bursts through from time to time. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th November 2014
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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to listen is to experience the visceral thrill of Pollini’s staggering brilliance as a teenager, the spine-tingling technical facility, the polished perfection, the revelatory poise, sensitivity... —
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The Complete Chopin Edition
RecommendedKrystian Zimerman (piano), Claudio Arrau (piano), Anatol Ugorski (piano), Maurizio Pollini (piano), Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano), Maria João Pires (piano), Martha Argerich (piano), Rafal Blechacz (piano), Yundi Li (piano), Lilya Zilberstein (piano), Mikhail Pletnev (piano), Kurt Bauer, Heidi Bung (pianos),...
The quality, both of DG's chosen recordings and the set's general presentation, is just about as good as it gets. To have in one box such wonders as Zimmerman's Ballades, Pollini's Etudes,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th April 2010
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Building a Library, November 2010, First Choice
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it is surely astonishing that Pollini could reject his early superfine brilliance,his aristocratic musicianship, his patrician ideal in the Chopin Etudes...What superb articulacy in, say, Op.... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th December 2011
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2012, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Historic
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Pollini is the absolute master of the technical difficulties as the very opening band proclaims, but he also hits off the mood of the more introverted pieces with precision. —
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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