Recorded September 1960 by EMI at Abbey Road Studios.
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
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
