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Maurizio Pollini - Frederic Chopin: Late Works, Opp.59-64 (2017)

Posted By: Designol
Maurizio Pollini - Frederic Chopin: Late Works, Opp.59-64 (2017)

Maurizio Pollini - Frédéric Chopin: Late Works, Opp.59-64 (2017)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 168 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 127 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 479 6127 | Time: 00:54:35

Esteemed for almost 60 years as one of the greatest Chopin interpreters, Maurizio Pollini confirms his preeminence with this 2017 release on Deutsche Grammophon, and offers his first all-Chopin disc since 2012. Chopin's late works were composed between 1845 and 1849, and include the Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op. 60, the 3 Mazurkas, Op. 59, the Polonaise-Fantaisie in A flat major, Op. 61, the 2 Nocturnes, Op. 62, the 3 Mazurkas, Op. 63, the 3 Waltzes, Op. 64, and the Mazurka in F minor, Op. Posth. 68, No. 4; they are notable for their harmonic richness and freedom of melodic embellishment, characteristics that made them especially influential among his Romantic contemporaries. Pollini's fluid phrasing and control of expression and dynamics have always given his performances sophistication and a feeling of balance, though these are engaging renditions that are far from cerebral or clinical, claims that critics have sometimes laid at Pollini's door. Yet listeners can hear for themselves how polished and deeply felt these performances are, and appreciate the artistic wholeness of Pollini's conceptions, from the elegance of the "Minute" Waltz to the sublime melancholy of the posthumous Mazurka in F minor. Highly recommended for fans of great piano music.

Maurizio Pollini - Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonaten opp. 101 & 106 "Hammerklavier" (1990)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Maurizio Pollini - Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonaten opp. 101 & 106 "Hammerklavier" (1990)

Maurizio Pollini - Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonaten opp. 101 & 106 "Hammerklavier" (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 258 Mb | Total time: 63:08 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 429 569-2 | Recorded: 1977

Pollini's performances of Beethoven's last five piano sonatas have assumed almost legendary status. Sometimes considered a cold interpreter, Pollini here pays scrupulous attention to Beethoven's instructions, an attention that never gets in the way of sincere expression. There's a lot to be said for approaching this music with a maximum of clarity and simplicity, and a minimum of Romantic panting and heaving. In fact, Beethoven's instructions are so detailed, and the music itself is often so elaborately developed, that it's all most pianists can do to play it as he wrote it. Pollini does that, and much more.

Maurizio Pollini - A Tribute: Maurizio Pollini (2024)

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Maurizio Pollini - A Tribute: Maurizio Pollini (2024)

Maurizio Pollini - A Tribute: Maurizio Pollini (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 2:42:03 | 523 Mb
Genre: Classical

Maurizio Pollini Entrer dans l’univers mental de Maurizio Pollini n’est pas chose aisée, car, avec lui, l’expression naît de l’ascèse, de l’austérité et de la rigueur, mais, ces épreuves une fois franchies, le bonheur est au bout du chemin. Sensibilité, raffinement, couleurs, poésie sont là à vous tendre les bras. Si l’on a souvent parlé de l’aspect marmoréen de ce piano précis, transparent, presque décharné, c’est que le pianiste a horreur de tout ce qui peut paraître extérieur. Son refus du pathos est presque phobique et tout son art consiste à rechercher le point d’équilibre entre un discours rationnel et l’élan émotionnel avec, quelquefois, le risque de paraître froid et distant.

Maurizio Pollini - The complete Chopin recordings from 1972-2008 [9CDs] (2011)

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Maurizio Pollini - The complete Chopin recordings from 1972-2008 [9CDs] (2011)

Maurizio Pollini - The complete Chopin recordings from 1972-2008 [9CDs] (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1.38 Gb | Total time: 06:33:06 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 477 9908 | Recorded: 1972-2008

Combining clarity with a dazzling technique, investing the music "with a symphonic gravitas, elemental power and electrifying modernity" (International Record Review), over three-and-a-half decades Maurizio Pollini has traversed the major works of Chopin as no other pianist of his time. Here is the legacy of this unique achievement, in a single box set for the first time. The complete Chopin recordings from 1972 to 2008 Comprising the Études, Preludes, Polonaises, Sonatas, Scherzi, Ballades, Nocturnes Also includes the 2008 recital.

Maurizio Pollini - Robert Schumann: Davidsbundlertanze; Concert Sans Orchestre (2001)

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Maurizio Pollini - Robert Schumann: Davidsbundlertanze; Concert Sans Orchestre (2001)

Maurizio Pollini - Robert Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze; Concert Sans Orchestre (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 172 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 124 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 471 369-2 | Time: 00:51:02

While Pollini's Schumann is not to everyone's taste – some find his virtuoso playing too cool and his bracing interpretations too intellectual – for those who revere Pollini, his Schumann is a tonic after nearly two centuries of sloppy and sentimental performance practice. Pollini's Davidsbündlertänze may not be as poetic as Arrau's and his Kreisleriana may not be as fantastic as Argerich's, but he finds meanings and significances in the works that no one ever has before. Pollini's Concert sans orchestre and Allegro in B minor are second to none in technical panache and interpretive aplomb. DG's piano sound is as real as playing the piano.

Maurizio Pollini - Frederic Chopin: Nocturnes (2005) 2CDs

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Maurizio Pollini - Frederic Chopin: Nocturnes (2005) 2CDs

Maurizio Pollini - Frédéric Chopin: Nocturnes (2005) 2CDs
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 255 Mb | Scans included | Time: 01:30:31
Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # B0005804-02 GH2

Pollini's traversal of Chopin's 19 Nocturnes (he leaves out the pair of posthumous ones) is one of his finest recordings in years. His long-lined yet detailed performances are comparable to the very different ones that have long stood at the pinnacle of recorded sets. Not as serene as Artur Rubinstein's, not as philosophical as Claudio Arrau's, nor as warm as Ivan Moravec's, Pollini's interpretations have their own allure. One is the way he shapes the melodies with a natural flow enhanced by his tonal beauty, less lean and streamlined than his usual way with Romantic music.

Maurizio Pollini, Claudio Abbado, Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Béla Bartók: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (1990)

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Maurizio Pollini, Claudio Abbado, Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Béla Bartók: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (1990)

Maurizio Pollini, Claudio Abbado, Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Béla Bartók: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 209 Mb | Total time: 51:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 415 371-2 | Recorded: 1977

Want to know what the two smartest musicians in Italy think of Bartók's first two piano concertos? Try this disc. With Maurizio Pollini at the piano and Claudio Abbado on the podium, the Hungarian modernist's concertos have never sounded so brilliant. Recorded in transparent stereo for Deutsche Grammophon in 1977, Pollini and Abbado's Bartók with the Chicago Symphony is searingly translucent in orchestrations that favor the winds, brass, and percussion over the strings and piano writing that encourages shock and awe virtuosity.

Maurizio Pollini - Rossini: La donna del lago (1992)

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Maurizio Pollini - Rossini: La donna del lago (1992)

Maurizio Pollini - Rossini: La donna del lago (1992)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:17:36 | 541 MB
Genre: Classical, Opera | Label: CBS Records | Catalog: 39311

This recording is clear, sharp and well-executed. The last two numbers with Katia Ricciarelli are stunning. She has a clear and lush voice with a dark, luminous quality that is finer than any clarinet. I could not get enough of her singing "Tanti affeti" at the end of the opera. What an incredible soprano. Certainly Joyce DiDonato is the current reigning Rossini mezzo but she (Ms. DiDonato) sings this at a slower tempo, with more ornamentation, perhaps to display her gifts better, though I think with less overall emotional impact.

Maurizio Pollini - Bach, Beethoven, Chopin (2023)

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Maurizio Pollini - Bach, Beethoven, Chopin (2023)

Maurizio Pollini - Bach, Beethoven, Chopin (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 645 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 444 Mb | 03:13:43
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Maurizio Pollini is an Italian pianist. He is known for performances of compositions by Beethoven, Chopin and Debussy, among others. He has also championed and performed works by contemporary composers such as Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, George Benjamin, Roberto Carnevale, Gianluca Cascioli and Bruno Maderna. Works composed for him include Luigi Nono's … sofferte onde serene …, Giacomo Manzoni's Masse: omaggio a Edgard Varèse and Salvatore Sciarrino's Fifth Sonata.

Maurizio Pollini - Ludwig van Beethoven: The Late Sonatas (2022)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Maurizio Pollini - Ludwig van Beethoven: The Late Sonatas (2022)

Maurizio Pollini - Ludwig van Beethoven: The Late Sonatas (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 190 Mb | Total time: 56:42 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 486 3014 | Recorded: 2021, 2022

Earlier this year Maurizio Pollini, one of the greatest pianists of our time, celebrated his 80th birthday. Having made landmark recordings of Beethoven’s final five sonatas in the 1970s, he decided a few years ago to revisit the works and elicit their last secrets in new interpretations. Featuring the Sonata in A major Op. 101 and the “Hammerklavier” Sonata Op. 106, this album completes Pollini’s recent survey of the five works, which began with the successful 2020 release of Beethoven – The Last Three Sonatas.

Maurizio Pollini - Stravinsky: Petrouchka; Prokofiev: Sonata No. 7; Webern: Variationen, Op. 27; Boulez: Sonata No. 2 (1995)

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Maurizio Pollini - Stravinsky: Petrouchka; Prokofiev: Sonata No. 7; Webern: Variationen, Op. 27; Boulez: Sonata No. 2 (1995)

Maurizio Pollini - Stravinsky: Petrouchka; Prokofiev: Sonata No. 7; Webern: Variationen, Op. 27; Boulez: Sonata No. 2 (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 265 Mb | Total time: 63:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 419 202-2 | Recorded: 1971, 1976

Pollini is so much a part of the contemporary music scene that it's amazing to realize that the earliest material on this disc (Stravinsky and Prokofiev) dates to the 1940s. These two performances retain their power to startle and amaze, both through Pollini's seemingly effortless virtuosity and through the immediacy of his musical conceptions. This Prokofiev is a close rival even to Richter's. Webern, from six years later, is so colorful and well organized that it makes the difficult music almost easy to listen to. Not many listeners will put up with Boulez's obscurities, but there is still plenty to make the disc worthwhile.

Maurizio Pollini - Bach & Beethoven - Maurizio Pollini (2023)

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Maurizio Pollini - Bach & Beethoven - Maurizio Pollini (2023)

Maurizio Pollini - Bach & Beethoven - Maurizio Pollini (2023)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 820 MB | Cover | 04:11:51 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 580 MB
Classical | Label: UME - Global Clearing House

It was in 1975 that Maurizio Pollini recorded his first Beethoven piano sonatas, with Gramophone Award-winning accounts of op. 109 and op. 110. Over the years he has gradually recorded more of them, and almost forty years later he has finally completed the cycle with a new disc out today of the op. 31 and op. 49 sonatas. To mark this milestone, Deutsche Grammophon has also released an 8-CD set of the complete sonatas.

Maurizio Pollini, Christian Thielemann - Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1 (2011)

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Maurizio Pollini, Christian Thielemann - Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1 (2011)

Maurizio Pollini, Christian Thielemann - Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1 (2011)
EAC FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 45:30 | 191 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | Catalog: 477 9882

Maurizio Pollini's 2011 concert recording of Johannes Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor is an important document because it not only captures his return to playing with the esteemed Staatskapelle Dresden (his first performance with the group since 1986), and his first collaboration with conductor Christian Thielemann, but it presents the very work the pianist played at his Staatskapelle debut in 1976. All of this background is helpful to know, to understand the significance Deutsche Grammophon attaches to this release, even at the risk of offering a CD that runs just over 45 minutes, without any filler for added value.

Maurizio Pollini - Franz Liszt: Sonata in B minor; Late Piano Works (1990)

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Maurizio Pollini - Franz Liszt: Sonata in B minor; Late Piano Works (1990)

Maurizio Pollini - Franz Liszt: Sonata in B minor; Late Piano Works (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 133 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 107 Mb | Covers included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 427 322-2 | Time: 00:45:43

No prizes for predicting that this Liszt B minor Sonata is technically flawless and beautifully structured. What may come as more of a shock (though not to those who have followed Pollini's career closely) is its sheer passion. To say that he plays as if his life depended on it is an understatement, and those who regularly accuse him of coolness should sit down in a quiet room with this recording, a decent hi-fi system and a large plateful of their own words. The opening creates a sense of coiled expectancy, without recourse to a mannered delivery such as Brendel's on Philips, and Pollini's superior fingerwork is soon evident. His virtuosity gains an extra dimension from his ability at the same time to convey resistance to it—the double octaves are demonstrably a fraction slower than usual and yet somehow feel faster, or at least more urgent.

Maurizio Pollini - Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 (2009) 2CDs [Re-Up]

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Maurizio Pollini - Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 (2009) 2CDs [Re-Up]

Maurizio Pollini - J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 386 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 260 Mb | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 0289 477 8078 GH2 | Time: 01:50:24

There's nothing at all wrong with Maurizio Pollini's 2009 performance of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1. The Italian pianist's intellectual lucidity, interpretive clarity, and technical virtuosity are apparent in every prelude and fugue, and his probing insights and penetrating analysis inform every note. However, there is almost nothing right with the sound quality of the recording. The piano sounds too distant, making it hard to hear precisely what Pollini is doing, but oddly, the ambient sound is too present, making every extraneous noise too loud. One should not hear the pedals being pressed and lifted, much less the clatter of the hammers and the twanging of the strings above the sound of the music. Worse yet, one can hear what sounds like every breath Pollini takes nearly as loudly as every note he plays. These are all grievous flaws that should have been eliminated, and their presence fatally undermines the brilliance of Pollini's performances. A reengineered version of these performances would be most welcome, but the present recording is so flawed that it virtually destroys Pollini's playing.