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43 reviews
Frederic Chopin, Maurizio Pollini

Deutsche Grammophon, 1990

Raw and Primal Power
I am not an expert but I must share my own personal thoughts about this disc before I fall over dead. Not much more can be said but I have heard the third of Chopin's etudes played by probably fifty some pianists. Whenever I hear it I always felt it expressed a love for one to another. Like a sonic love poem. Love has different levels. There is eros, filias, and agape to name a few. In ...

Maurizio Pollini Edition - Schoenberg: The Solo Piano Music, Piano Concerto; Webern: VAriations Op. 27

5 reviews
Maurizio Pollini, Arnold Schoenberg, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 2003

A great Schoenberg collection reissued, with bonuses
Maurizio Pollini's traversal of the solo piano music of Arnold Schoenberg was always a classic of modern music recordings, and this reissue makes it all the more attractive by adding the piano concerto and Pollini's classic recording of Webern's variations to the mix. The Three Piano Pieces are from the early days of Schoenberg's atonal period, and the first two have fairly strong tonal echoes ...

Beethoven: Die Späten Klaviersonaten

24 reviews
Ludwig van Beethoven, Maurizio Pollini

Deutsche Grammophon, 1997

A must have set for any Beethoven fan
Giving a hearty recommendation to this recording would not do it justice. The sound is quite good and the performances are simply spectacular. I'm lucky enough to have complete works by Kempff, Claude Frank, Bernard Roberts, and Ashkenazy (excerpts). They are most worthy masters in their own right but for me, this set really speaks from the heart. There is incredible intensity in some ...

Mozart: Piano Concertos K. 414 & 491

1 review
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Maurizio Pollini, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 2008

Enchantingly beautiful playing ... lucidly recorded ...simply spellbinding... highly recommended...a very special CD
This is Maurizio Pollini's second CD playing Mozart piano concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic and conducting from the keyboard. The playing is enchantingly beautiful and the performances are lucidly recorded. The program was played on June 2 and June 3 in the Musikverein in Vienna. The evening program began with Mozart's Concerto No. 12 for Piano and Orchestra, A Major, KV 414. It was ...

Chopin: Piano Concerto 1, Nocturnes

5 reviews
Frederic Chopin, Paul Kletzki, ...

EMI Classics, 2001

Brilliant Performances of Chopin's music from Pollini
Maurizio Pollini's exhilirating performance of Chopin's 1st Piano Concerto was recorded when he was 18, soon after he won first prize in an international prize competition, the Warsaw Chopin Competition, which included legendary pianist Artur Rubinstein as among its jurors; Rubinstein remarked that Pollini was technically a better pianist than himself and his fellow jurors! Pollini's playing is ...

Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5; Triple Concerto
Ludwig van Beethoven, Claudio Abbado, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 2008

One of the greatest Beethoven Piano Concerto cycles of recent times, from Abbado and fellow countryman Maurizio Pollini, returns to the catalogue at an attractive price (3-for-2). A brand-new recording of Beethoven's Triple Concerto fills out the package, with Maestro Abbado conducting the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela (about whom Abbado has said, "[This] young orchestra's devotion to music [has] deeply impressed me.") and a dynamic ...

Beethoven, Mozart & Brahms Piano Concertos

10 reviews
Maurizio Pollini, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Deutsche Grammophon, 2005

A Celestial Experience.
We have here one of the very finest orchestras, under the baton of one of the very finest conductors, in sublime communion with one of the greatest of pianists, performing some of the best works of the greatest composers, and altogether presented in superb sound and video. So then...additional notes: 1) Pollini becomes a genuine prodigy whenever the the music engulfs his fears (usually in ...

The Most Relaxing Piano Album in the World...Ever!

14 reviews
Isaac Albeniz, Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

EMI Classics, 2001

Beautiful piano music!
This is simply an exquisite collection of beautiful piano pieces. I am very satisfied with this purchase. I can read while listening to this music-call it background music...maybe, but even when you're doing something else-the music is there...it does not intrude, but it doesn't get lost either. I am having a hard time explaining this. I wanted music to relax and enjoy. I got just that with this ...

Chopin: Nocturnes

12 reviews
Frederic Chopin, Maurizio Pollini

Deutsche Grammophon, 2006

A Visionary fperformance
When I first purchased this recording, the rather austere interpretations disappointed me. I had been listening to the Pires earlier, and her much more traditional, romantic approach had made a deep impression(still a great accomplishment, better than almost all who precede her recording). However, after a few listenings, Pollini's incredible intellectual command and spiritual interpretation ...

Beethoven opp. 10 & 13, Sonatas 5-8

6 reviews
Ludwig van Beethoven, Maurizio Pollini

Deutsche Grammophon, 2004

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
DO NOT LISTEN TO ANY NEGATIVE REVIEW OF THIS DISC. Any naysayer, I'll wallop. SHUT UP AND LISTEN TO THE MUSIC. I've never heard so many notes, lively rhythms, beautiful harmonies in ANY of these sonatas -- and the Pathetique, MY GOD, it's transformed, transfigured, transcendental; I didn't think there was anything else to know or hear in this piece, and along comes Pollini with a slap in the face ...

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 13, 14, 17, 21

3 reviews
Ludwig van Beethoven, Maurizio Pollini

Deutsche Grammophon, 2003

Great CD
Every one of sonatas on this CD is great, especially his 97's live recording of "Waldstein" which is phenomenal - fast, fury and yet extremly articulate and controlled, and is unsurpassed by any recordings of it I have ever heard. I bought this one after somehow disappointed with Brendel's Tempest recording and thought Pollini might make it up for me. Indeed, Pollini's playing showed his passion, ...

Beethoven: piano sonatas op 54:57

11 reviews
Ludwig van Beethoven, Maurizio Pollini

Deutsche Grammophon, 2003

Superb modern Beethoven playing
Pollini is quite uncompromising in these recordings, and that alone will put some listeners off. But there is also an irresistible drive and fury in these recordings, something you could also imagine from Beethoven himself. These are anything but cold readings; most of them appear to me as white-hot performances. Opus 90 is intense rather than intimate, but always fascinating, Pollini makes a ...

Beethoven: Diabelli Variations

9 reviews
Ludwig van Beethoven, Maurizio Pollini

Deutsche Grammophon, 2000

Pollini at the peak if his powers
I'm sure this recording will serve as another document in the Great Pollini Debate (one of the greatest pianists of all time or "mere mechanicus," as Mozart put it?). As one who's been on the "anti-Pollini" side, let me say at once that this is one of the greatest performances of the Diabelli Variations I've ever heard. What impresses first of all is the clarity and power of Pollini's ...

Chopin: Etudes/Preludes/Polonaises

10 reviews
Frederic Chopin, Maurizio Pollini

Deutsche Grammophon, 1991

Really extraordinary performance of the Preludes and Etudes!
It takes a very great artist to be able to play pieces which have been overperformed and overtaught, and bring something fresh to the table. Pollini does just that, especially in his performances of the Preludes and Etudes. I would love to take a poll of the pianists and piano teachers here to see how many times they have taught the Chopin Preludes. From my own experience, I've taught these ...

Maurizio Pollini ~ Schubert - Wanderer-Fantasie · Schumann - Fantasie op. 17

8 reviews
Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 1996

Decent Schubert, but Great Schumann from Pollini
This is an odd coupling of Pollini's early recordings in the Deutsche Grammophon Originals series. Pollini's version of Schubert's "Wanderer-Fantasie" was marred by technical problems, which this digitally remastered version doesn't quite overcome. Unfortunately, his version isn't nearly as compelling as those I've heard from the likes of Kempff, yet Pollini's performance remains technically ...

Chopin: 4 Ballades; Fantaisie, Op. 49; Prelude, Op. 45

22 reviews
Frederic Chopin, Maurizio Pollini

Deutsche Grammophon, 1999

Making a case for Pollini in the Ballades?
Piano recitals tend to bring out good reviewers here at Amazon, but Pollini's Chopin Ballades haven't been well described yet. Each reviewer seem to have strong thumbs-up or thumbs-down opinions. They declare that Pollini is either in top form or has lost his touch completely. As to the bare facts, Pollini plays all these works faster than the norm--Kissin, who recorded the Ballades in 1998 ...

Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Webern, etc / Maurizio Pollini

28 reviews
Stravinsky, Prokofiev, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 1996

One of the top piano discs of my collection
This is one amazing disc of piano-playing, one that never ceases to leave my mouth hanging open every time I listen to it. Do yourself a favor if you read music and find a score of the Stravinsky. Follow along as Pollini plays and be amazed, truly amazed. Amazed not just at the virtuosity, but at how *easy* and effortless he makes it sound. In his hands, it's hard to believe this is ...

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas NOS. 1-3, OP. 2

4 reviews
Beethoven

Deutsche Grammophon, 2008

Pollini has reached a remarkable plateau of mastery
Pollini was wise to save Beetoven's Op. 2 piano sonatas for late in his complete cycle, having begun with the late sonatas over three decades ago. He's achieved such ease and mastery that these early works roll off his fingers with silken mastery -- I doubt any contemporary can match him at this oint. The product description and first reviewer her at Amazon try to sell Op. 2 as dramatic, fully ...

Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Selections from the definitive collection [Sampler]

7 reviews
Fryderyk Chopin, Johannes Brahms, ...

Polygram Records Philips, 1998

Unparalled Excellence (Mark G. Davis)
If you only purchase one classical piano cd in your entire life, this one should be it. All the masters, at their very best on it. If you have piano cd's, this should be part of that collection. I purchased one, almost not believing what I read on the jacket. I'm telling my friends about this one, as I'm aware of no other CD having all those piano masters - - at any price?)...

Chopin: Twenty Four Préludes Op.28

8 reviews
Frederic Chopin, Maurizio Pollini

Deutsche Grammophon, 1990

The standard
I bought this recording in vinyl in the early 80s and am still astounded by Pollini's ability to make each prelude individual but still part of a complete opus. I later have bought recordings of this work by Argerich, Perahia, Lortie, Kissin, Ashkenazy, Alexeev, and Pires. All bring special qualities to this incredible work that stands as one of the peaks of piano compostition, but I have found ...

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