This outstanding recording featuring Maurizio Pollini performing the complete Chopin Études is being offered for the first time by Testament. It was made by EMI at Abbey Road a few months after Pollini had won the Chopin Competition in Warsaw. Peter Andry, who produced the recording, later recalled Pollini's play-through of the first set as a spine-tingling experience. This was pianism of the very finest kind, he said. Rarely had I heard such perfection. He seemed to play these demanding works effortlessly. I remember the occasion even now as one of my greatest musical experiences. The recording reproduces with striking immediacy and clarity a performance that captures the 18-year-old pianist s sensitive and sympathetic emotional response to these works. This is a superb addition to Pollini s extensive recorded catalogue and shows this great artist at the very beginning of his professional career as a musician of the highest caliber.
"His playing is powerful and precise, driven by a probing intellect and executed with steely, virtually infallible fingers..." - The New York Times
Features:
180g Vinyl
Musicians:
Maurizio Pollini, piano
Selections:
Side 1:
1. No.1 in C
2. No.2 in A minor
3. No.3 in E
4. No.4 in C sharp minor
5. No.5 in G flat
6. No.6 in E flat minor
7. No.7 in C
8. No.8 in F
9. No.9 in F minor
10. No.10 in A flat
11. No.11 in E flat
12. No.12 in C minor
Side 2
1. No.1 in A flat
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
10. No.10 in B minor
11. No.11 in A minor
12. No.12 in C minor