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Maurizio Pollini
12+ albums
Classicalpianoclassical pianopianistChopin
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Maurizio Pollini (5 January 1942 – 23 March 2024) was an Italian classical pianist. He was born in Milan, the son of the Italian rationalist architect Gino Pollini. Maurizio studied piano first with Carlo Lonati, until the age of 13, then with Carlo Vidusso, until he was 18. He received a diploma from the Milan Conservatory and won the International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1960, after which he studied under Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. Since the mid-1960s, he was given recitals and appeared with major orchestras in Europe, the United States, and the Far East. He made his American debut in 1968 and his first tour of Japan in 1974. Regarded as one of the greatest pianists of our age, he was especially noted for his performances of Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Schoenberg, Webern and for championing modern composers such as Pierre Boulez, Luigi Nono and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Important modern works were composed for Pollini, notably Nono’s …sofferte onde serene…, Giacomo Manzoni’s Masse: omaggio a Edgard Varèse and Salvatore Sciarrino's fifth sonata. He displays an absolute technical sovereignty over the piano, but is sometimes criticized for his emotional conservatism. He has conducted both opera and orchestral music, sometimes leading the orchestra from the keyboard in concertos. His first recordings for Deutsche Grammophon in 1971 included Stravinsky’s Three Movements from “Petrushka” and Prokofiev’s Seventh Sonata and is still co
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Nocturne in D flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2 (2001 Digital Remaster)
16,7002Nocturne No.5 in F sharp Op.15 No.2 (1997 Digital Remaster)
10,3083Nocturne No.5 in F sharp, Op.15 No.2 (2001 Digital Remaster)
8,0844Nocturne in C sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 1 (2001 Digital Remaster)
6,4025Polonaise No. 6 in A flat 'Heroic' Op. 53 (2001 Digital Remaster)
6,3066Nocturne No.4 in F, Op.15 No.1 (2001 Digital Remaster)
5,4947Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 (2001 Digital Remaster)
5,3038Polonaise No.6 In A Flat, Op.53 -"Heroic"
2,9519Chopin: Nocturne No.2 in E flat, Op.9 No.2
1,89410Nocturne No.5 in F sharp Op.15 No.2
1,801albums
Chopin:Piano Concerto No.1/Nocturnes etc
Chopin: Nocturnes
Stravinsky: Three Dances from Petruschka'/ Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No.7 / Webern: Piano Variations
Chopin
Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas
Chopin: Etudes
Chopin Complete Edition
Beethoven: The Last Three Sonatas, Opp. 109-111
Chopin: Late Works, Opp. 59-64
Chopin: Polonaises
Chopin: 24 Préludes; Nocturnes; Mazurkas; Scherzo
Bach, J.S.: The well-tempered Clavier