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Chopin: 24 Preludes

Maurizio Pollini (piano)

Chopin: 24 Preludes
His sense of phrasing, structure and pacing is undimmed...There are other accounts of the 24 Preludes that are more impassioned, more vividly imagined and coloured, but few are more pure or...

BBC Music Magazine, January 20134 out of 5 stars

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Chopin: 24 Preludes

Maurizio Pollini (piano)

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His sense of phrasing, structure and pacing is undimmed...There are other accounts of the 24 Preludes that are more impassioned, more vividly imagined and coloured, but few are more pure or...

BBC Music Magazine, January 20134 out of 5 stars

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Master pianist Maurizio Pollini turned 70 on January 5th, 2012 and DG are celebrating this milestone birthday with a new album of breath-taking Chopin. Pollini’s Chopin recordings are his best-sellers – the complete Nocturnes, released in 2005, have sold more than 100,000 CDs to date.

Chopin: Preludes is a birthday programme of newly recorded solo works: Preludes op.28, four Mazurkas op.30, two Nocturnes op.27, and the Scherzo no.2 op.31. Pollini often feature Chopin’s works in his solo recitals – The Guardian raved, “... he still plays Chopin with the ease that floored even Rubinstein more than 50 years ago ...”

Contents and tracklist

Chopin: Preludes (24), Op. 28
Work length33:01
No. 1 in C Major. Agitato
Track length0:38
No. 2 in A Minor. Lento
Track length1:53
No. 3 in G Major. Vivace
Track length0:57
No. 4 in E Minor. Largo
Track length1:47
No. 5 in D Major. Molto allegro
Track length0:33
No. 6 in B Minor. Lento assai
Track length1:35
No. 7 in A Major. Andantino
Track length0:34
No. 8 in F-Sharp Minor. Molto agitato
Track length1:36
No. 9 in E Major. Largo
Track length1:14
No. 10 in C-Sharp Minor. Molto allegro
Track length0:30
No. 11 in B Major. Vivace
Track length0:34
No. 12 in G-Sharp Minor. Presto
Track length1:08
No. 13 in F-Sharp Minor. Lento
Track length2:22
No. 14 in E-Flat Minor. Allegro
Track length0:32
No. 15 in D-Flat Major "Raindrop Prelude"
Track length4:23
No. 16 in B-Flat Minor. Presto con fuoco
Track length1:07
No. 17 in A-Flat Major. Allegretto
Track length2:36
No. 18 in F Minor. Molto allegro
Track length0:50
No. 19 in E-Flat Major. Vivace
Track length1:18
No. 20 in C Minor. Largo
Track length1:26
No. 21 in B-Flat Major. Cantabile
Track length1:32
No. 22 in G Minor. Molto agitato
Track length0:43
No. 23 in F Major. Moderato
Track length0:48
No. 24 in D Minor. Allegro appassionato
Track length2:25
Chopin: Nocturne No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 1
Work length4:12
Chopin: Nocturne No. 8 in D flat major, Op. 27 No. 2
Work length4:53
Chopin: Mazurka No. 18 in C Minor, Op. 30 No. 1. Allegretto non tanto
Work length1:26
Chopin: Mazurka No. 19 in B Minor, Op. 30 No. 2. Allegretto
Work length1:18
Chopin: Mazurka No. 20 in D-Flat Major, Op. 30 No. 3. Allegro non troppo
Work length2:23
Chopin: Mazurka No. 21 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 30 No. 4. Allegretto
Work length3:28
Chopin: Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 31
Work length9:16

Awards and reviews

January 2013

His sense of phrasing, structure and pacing is undimmed...There are other accounts of the 24 Preludes that are more impassioned, more vividly imagined and coloured, but few are more pure or devoted. Recorded sound is excellent. The fingers are not entirely all they used to be in terms of nimbleness, but that isn't too intrusive.
4 out of 5 stars

1st November 2012

The best of it, especially the B flat minor Scherzo, is superb, the virtuosity effortless, the grip on the formal structure utterly secure, but elsewhere...there's sometimes a chilly relentlessness about the playing, an impatience almost, that keeps the music at a distance.
4 out of 5 stars
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