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Maurizio Pollini (born January 5, 1942) is 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 has 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 is 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.
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 has 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 is 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.
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jespaa wrote:
Just legendary
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Rojavida wrote:
Unsurpassed Chopin Etudes. (To my knowledge).
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Rainman45 wrote:
Красиво, довольно интересная манера игры.
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isukkinen wrote:
Pollini's recording of Beethoven's late piano sonatas (Nos 28 - 32) is my all time favourite classics album.
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keisuh wrote:
His Chopin stuff is so cool yet passionate beneath the sound
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yu00 wrote:
I agree with the person below, Pollini is a rare genius of our time.
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DeepInMySoul wrote:
Pollini is my favorite living classical pianist. His playing has just the right amounts, respectively, of discipline, restraint, power, and passion!
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yousttyna wrote:
http://www.lastfm.pl/group/POLLINI
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Mirafound wrote:
I'm personally most amazed by his Polonaises. Powerful yet beautiful as well.
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andresroldan wrote:
The Beethoven's Piano Concertos by Pollini and Abbado are terrific.
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Jhaidinszaev wrote:
"Pollini is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, Chopin's interpreters but you guys should also take a listen to his other works, in particular his Debussy's and Beethoven's interpretations, which are, in my opinion, very interesting." <<< Chopin puts me to sleep, so I don't listen to it; I'm instead most familiar with Pollini's CD of the Schoenberg piano works, which I highly recommend for anyone interested in the music of the first half of the twentieth century. In particular, his interpretation of the Suite Op. 25 is the best I've heard yet.
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IcarusB wrote:
Agree with yu00 - Pollini's are the best Chopin interpretations. And for me Ballade No. 1 is the greatest piece of music for piano ever written. Every emotion covered in a 6min journey of the senses. Take me there and back!
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yu00 wrote:
Pollini is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, Chopin's interpreters but you guys should also take a listen to his other works, in particular his Debussy's and Beethoven's interpretations, which are, in my opinion, very interesting.
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Mr-Usuario wrote:
Nowadays, Nocturnes has a very important donation from each executioner. From Pollini, well... you have ears.
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visualpiano wrote:
I really like his playing of Sergei Prokofiev Sonata Op. 83, No. 7, all three movements especially the third. Anyone wanna hear please mail to: sunxintranscend@gmail.com Really inspiring!
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Redingot wrote:
You can actually hear him hum while playing Chopin Nocturnes :-)) But for some reason, his recordings do not include posthumous ones. Too bad that I couldn't hear his rendition of the posth. C# minor nocturne.
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alionsonny wrote:
BTW: Listening to the Chopin Nocturnes
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alionsonny wrote:
Great music for programming software to also. Never had a better flow of working.
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yesthisistam wrote:
yes.
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CallumMcCahon wrote:
this is great stuff for studying to.
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Maurizio Pollini in recital
Auditorium Parco della Musica, Sala Santa Cecilia, Roma, Italy
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Maurizio Pollini
Alte Oper, Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Germany
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Mar
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Maurizio Pollini
Philharmonie, Köln, Cologne, Germany
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