Maurizio Pollini - Maurizio Pollini Edition: 12 CD Box Set + Bonus CD (2001)

Maurizo Pollini, the great concert pianist from Milan, is shown in fine form throughout this 13 CD box set "edition" of his previously released recordings on the Deutsche Gramophone label ( celebrating his 30th year with DG ). The performances were selected by the artist himself and so retain a merit absent in some other types of repackaging "schemes".
Hardcore classical music enthusiasts are rarely short of opinions, positive or negative, about this phenomenal musician. Like his friend Pierre Boulez, he is treated in some circles in almost idolatrous fashion, in others his playing is heard as cold, aloof, and mechanistic. However, even his detractors agree that his prodigious technique is married to an equally formidable grasp of form; "rambling" pieces are framed in a convincing way. His "architectural" approach ( he is the son of an architect ) is built up through careful study and sculpting of interpretations ( background research, various editions of scores, historical contexts ), some of which take decades to reach their recorded form. For better or worse, Pollini is simply not a "lover" of the piano in the way that others are. Yet it would simplistic to dismiss him as (merely) "Apollonian", for he has reserves of passion and feeling in his playing ( especially noticeable in concert ) that other pianists of a more celebrated effusiveness lack. Nevertheless, he is justly regarded as an "intellectual" musician and his brand of seriousness can at times put a damper on the lighter elements of, for example, the earlier period Beethoven sonatas.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
Piano Concerto No.23 in A, K.488
Cadenza: W.A.Mozart
1 1. Allegro - Cadenza: Mozart
2 2. Adagio
3 3. Allegro assai

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Piano Concerto No.5 in E flat major Op.73 -"Emperor"
4 1. Allegro
5 2. Adagio un poco mosso
6 3. Rondo (Allegro)

Maurizio Pollini, Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm




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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor, Op.37
Kadenz: Ludwig van Beethoven
1 1. Allegro con brio - Cadenza: Beethoven
2 2. Largo
3 3. Rondo (Allegro)
Piano Concerto No.4 in G, Op.58: III. Rondo (Vivace)
Cadenzas: Ludwig van Beethoven
4 1. Allegro moderato - Cadenza: Ludwig van Beethoven
5 2. Andante con moto
6 3. Rondo. Vivace - Cadenza: Ludwig van Beethoven

Maurizio Pollini, Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado




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Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.54
1 1. Allegro affettuoso
2 2. Intermezzo (Andantino grazioso)
3 3. Allegro vivace

Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor, Op.15
4 1. Maestoso - Poco più moderato
5 2. Adagio
6 3. Rondo (Allegro non troppo)

Maurizio Pollini, Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado




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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Piano Sonata No.13 in E flat, Op.27 No.1
1 1. Andante - Allegro - Tempo I
2 2. Allegro molto e vivace
3 3. Adagio con espressione
4 4. Allegro vivace - Tempo I - Presto
Piano Sonata No.14 in C sharp minor, Op.27 No.2 -"Moonlight"
5 1. Adagio sostenuto
6 2. Allegretto
7 3. Presto agitato
Piano Sonata No.17 in D minor, Op.31 No.2 -"Tempest"
8 1. Largo - Allegro
9 2. Adagio
10 3. Allegretto
Piano Sonata No.21 in C, Op.53 -"Waldstein"
11 1. Allegro con brio
12 2. Introduzione (Adagio molto)
13 3. Rondo (Allegretto moderato - Prestissimo)




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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Piano Sonata No.29 in B flat, Op.106 -"Hammerklavier"
1 1. Allegro
2 2. Scherzo (Assai vivace - Presto - Prestissimo - Tempo I)
3 3. Adagio sostenuto
4 4. Largo - Allegro risoluto
Piano Sonata No.32 in C minor, Op.111
5 1. Maestoso - Allegro con brio ed appassionato
6 2. Arietta (Adagio molto semplice e cantabile)




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Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
Piano Sonata No.20 in A, D.959
1 1. Allegro
2 2. Andantino
3 3. Scherzo (Allegro vivace)
4 4. Rondo (Allegretto)
5 Allegretto in C minor, D.915
3 Klavierstücke, D.946
6 No.1 in E flat minor (Allegro assai)
7 No.2 in E flat (Allegretto)
8 No.3 in C (Allegro)




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Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
12 Etudes, Op.25
1 No. 1 in A flat "Harp Study"
2 No. 2 in F minor
3 No. 3 in F
4 No. 4 in A minor
5 No. 5 in E minor
6 No. 6 in G sharp minor
7 No. 7 in C sharp minor
8 No. 8 in D flat
9 No. 9 in G flat, "Butterfly Wings"
10 No. 10 in B minor
11 No. 11 in A minor "Winter Wind"
12 No. 12 in C minor
Piano Sonata No.2 in B flat minor, Op.35
13 1. Grave - Doppio movimento
14 2. Scherzo - Più lento - Tempo I
15 3. Marche funèbre (Lento)
16 4. Finale (Presto)
17 Berceuse in D flat, Op.57




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Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
Fantasie in C, Op.17
1 1. Durchaus fantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen - Im Legenden-Ton
2 2. Mäßig. Durchaus energisch - Etwas langsamer - Vielbewegter
3 3. Langsam getragen. Durchweg leise zu halten - Etwas bewegter
4 Arabeske in C, Op.18

Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
Piano Sonata in B minor, S.178
5 Lento assai
6 Allegro energico
7 Grandioso
8 Recitativo
9 Andante sostenuto
10 Quasi adagio
11 Allegro energico
12 Più mosso
13 Stretta quasi Presto-
14 Presto - Prestissimo-
15 Andante sostenuto -
16 Allegro moderato-
17 Lento assai
18 La Lugubre Gondola, S.200 No.1




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Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
12 Etudes pour le piano
1 1. Pour les "cinq doigts" (d'après Monsieur Czerny)
2 2. Pour les Tierces
3 3. Pour les Quartes
4 4. Pour les Sixtes
5 5. Pour les Octaves
6 6. Pour les huit doigts
7 7. Pour les Degrés chromatiques
8 8. Pour les Agréments
9 9. Pour les Notes répétées
10 10. Pour les Sonorités opposées
11 11. Pour les Arpèges composés
12 12. Pour les Accords

Pierre Boulez (1925 - )
Piano Sonata No.2
13 1. Extrèmement rapide
14 2. Lent
15 3. Modéré, presque vif
16 4. Vif




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Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
Three movements 'Petruschka'
1 Danse russe. Allegro giusto
2 Chez Pétrouchka
3 La semaine grasse. Con Moto - Allegretto - Tempo giusto - Agitato
Maurizio Pollini

Béla Bartók (1881 - 1945)
Piano Concerto No.1, BB 91, Sz. 83
4 1. Allegro moderato - Allegro
5 2. Andante
6 3. Allegro molto
Piano Concerto No.2, BB 101, Sz. 95
7 1. Allegro
8 2. Adagio - Più adagio - Presto
9 3. Allegro molto
Maurizio Pollini, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado




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Arnold Schoenberg (1874 - 1951)
Three Piano Pieces, Op.11 (1909)
1 1. Mäßige Viertel
2 2. Mässige Achtel
3 3. Bewegte Achtel
Sechs kleine Klavierstücke, Op.19
4 No.1 - Leicht, zart
5 No.2 - Langsam
6 No.3 - Sehr langsame Viertel
7 No.4 - Rasch, aber leicht
8 No.5 - Etwas rasch
9 No.6 - Sehr langsam
Fünf Klavierstücke
10 1. Sehr langsam
11 2. Sehr rasch
12 3. Langsam
13 4. Schwungvoll. Mässige (Viertel)
14 5. Walzer
Suite für Klavier, Op.25
15 1. Präludium, rasch
16 2a. Gavotte. Etwas langsam, nicht hastig (attaca:) Rascher. Rascher - Gavotte
17 2b. Musette: Rascher
18 2c. Gavotte (da capo)
19 3. Intermezzo
20 4. Minuett: Moderato - Trio
21 5. Gigue: Rasch
Piano Piece op.33a
22 Mässig
Piano Piece op.33b
23 Mässig langsam
Maurizio Pollini

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op.42
24 Andante
25 Molto allegro
26 Adagio [6:03]
27 Giocoso (moderato)
Maurizio Pollini, Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado

Anton Webern (1883 - 1945)
Piano Variations, Op.27
28 1. Sehr mässig
29 2. Sehr schnell
30 3. Ruhig, fliessend
Maurizio Pollini




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Luigi Nono (1924 - 1990)
Como una ola de fuerza y luz
1 Beginning
2 1. Interno dolce
3 2. Duro deciso
4 Piano entry
5 3. Dolcissimo sereno
6 Orchestra entry
7 Orchestra and piano entry
Slavka Taskova, Maurizio Pollini, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Claudio Abbado

8 ….Sofferte onde serene….for piano and magnetic tape
Maurizio Pollini

Giacomo Manzoni (1932 - )
9 Masse: Omaggio a Edgar Varese
Maurizio Pollini, Berliner Philharmoniker, Giuseppe Sinopoli




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Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Piano Concerto No.1 in E minor, Op.11
1 1. Allegro maestoso
2 2. Romance (Larghetto)
3 3. Rondo (Vivace)
Maurizio Pollini, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Jerzy Katlewicz

Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.54
4 1. Allegro affettuoso
5 2. Intermezzo (Andantino grazioso)
6 3. Allegro vivace
Maurizio Pollini, Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

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