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Maurizio Pollini - pianoforte
The name of Maurizio Pollini evokes an extremely important career, story of a man and an artist known all over
the world, prized by audiences and critics across every latitude and several generations.
Protagonist since more than 40 years in all the major European, American and Japanese concert halls and
festival, Maurizio Pollini has performed with the most celebrate conductors an orchestras.
He has been awarded many International prizes: the Vienna Philharmonic Ehrenring in 1987, the Goldenes
Ehrenzeichen of the Town Salzburg in 1995; the Ernst-von-Siemens Music Prize in Munich in 1996, the “A Life
for Music – Artur Rubinstein” Prize in Venice in 1999 and the Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Prize in Milan in 2000,
Artiste Etoile of the Lucerne Festival, 2004. October 2010 Pollini has been awarded the prestigious Prize
Imperiale in Tokyo. 2012 the Royal Philharmonic Society Award., 2013 Laurea Honoris Causa of the Complutense
University, Madrid.
In 1995 Maurizio Pollini opened the Festival that Tokyo dedicated to Pierre Boulez. In the same year and in 1999
the Salzburg Festival invited him to devise and present an own cycle of concerts, which included in the
programmes works of different epochs and styles. Later in the years, between 1999 and 2006, with the same
philosophy Maurizio Pollini realized new cycles performed in New York at the Carnegie Hall (in 1999/2000 and
2000/01), in Paris for la Cité de la Musique and in Tokyo (both in 2002), in Rome at the Parco della Musica (March
2003) and Vienna with programmes including both chamber and orchestral performances and mirroring his wide
musical tastes from Gesualdo and Monteverdi to the presentNew cycles have been devised between 2008 and
2013 at the Lucerne Festival, Accademia di Santa Cecilia Roma, Cité de la Musique Paris, Teatro alla Scala
Milano, in Tokyo and in Berlin.
Maurizio Pollini’s repertoire ranges from Bach to contemporary composers (including première performances of
Manzoni, Nono and Sciarrino) and includes the complete Beethoven Sonatas, which he has performed in Berlin,
Munich, Milan, New York, London, Vienna and Paris.
He has recorded works from the classical, romantic and contemporary repertoire to worldwide critical acclaims. His
recordings of the complete works for piano by Schoenberg, and of works by Berg, Webern, Manzoni, Nono, Boulez
and Stockhausen are a testament to his great passion for music of the 20th century.
Pollini’s recording of Chopin Nocturnes was received with the greatest enthusiasm by audience and critics alike:
in 2007 he was awarded a Grammy for the best Instrumental Soloist Performance and the Disco d’Oro, in 2006 an
Echo Award (Germany), Choc de la Musique, Victoires de la Musique and Diapason d’Or de l’Année (France). A
CD with the Mozart piano Concertos n.12 KV414 and n.24 KV491 with the Vienna Philharmonic was released in
April 2008 followed by the second CD with Concertos n.17 KV453 and n.21 KV467 and by a new recording
dedicated to Chopin. Brahms nr 1 with Staatskapelle Dresden and Christian Thielemann has been released both in
CD and DVD late fall 2011, Brahms nr 2, always with Dresden and Thielemann spring 2014.
DGG has recently released three box dedicated to the Art of Maurizio Pollini , October 2012 a new CD featuring
Chopin Préludes and other pieces. Spring 2014 Beethoven Sonatas
Giugno 2014
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