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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.

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1	Nocturne in D flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2 (2001 Digital Remaster) full track	122
2	Nocturne No.5 in F sharp, Op.15 No.2 (2001 Digital Remaster) full track	71
3	Polonaise No. 6 in A flat 'Heroic' Op. 53 (2001 Digital Remaster) full track	52
4	Nocturne in C sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 1 (2001 Digital Remaster) full track	50
5	Nocturne No.4 in F, Op.15 No.1 (2001 Digital Remaster) full track	44
6	Das Wohltemperierte Klavier: Book 1, BWV 846-869: Prelude in C Major, BWV 846	35
7	Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 (2001 Digital Remaster) full track	34
8	Nocturne No.5 in F sharp Op.15 No.2 full track	11
9	Chopin: Etude #1 In C, Op. 10	6
9	Polonaise No.6 in A flat, Op.53 -"Heroic"	6
9	Chopin: Nocturne #7 In C Sharp Minor, Op. 27/1	6
9	Op.9, No.2 in E flat major - Andante	6
9	12 Etudes op.10 No.10 in S flat major	6
9	No.1 In B Flat Minor: Larghetto	6
15	Op.9, No.1 in B flat minor - Larghetto	5

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IcarusB wrote:
28 days ago

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:
October 2009

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:
September 2009

Nowadays, Nocturnes has a very important donation from each executioner. From Pollini, well... you have ears.

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visualpiano wrote:
July 2009

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:
May 2009

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:
May 2009

BTW: Listening to the Chopin Nocturnes

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alionsonny wrote:
May 2009

Great music for programming software to also. Never had a better flow of working.

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werkan wrote:
May 2009

Good

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yesthisistam wrote:
April 2009

yes.

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CallumMcCahon wrote:
April 2009

this is great stuff for studying to.

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Shaikailash wrote:
February 2009

un genio

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Count_Orlockh wrote:
February 2009

super

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AcidBeast wrote:
February 2009

I love you!

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haroldfricker wrote:
July 2008

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DEEDB1030F932A35750C0A961948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=5 He and Manzoni and the composer Luigi Nono and others would perform in factories and in poor districts.

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--irma-- wrote:
May 2008

bravo!

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b_e_t_h wrote:
January 2008

hahaha i'm a top listener... my dad was listening to this on my computer and it all scrobbled.. ah well,, sounds quite prettyy.. i actually want to listen to piano solo classical stuff

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Amina172 wrote:
October 2007

http://www.last.fm/group/Schumann/

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October 2006

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