The “Unione Musicale” Association of Torino has invited Maurizio Pollini to play, once more for them after his first concert there in 1965 (five years later his first place in “Chopin” International Competion) in a extra concert of “MI TO” in memoriam of Giorgio Balmas (1927-2006) the founder of this important Festival. Their friendship gives an oppurtunity to hear Pollini in a great programme:
Chopin:
(Preludio in do diesis minore op. 45
Ballata op. 38
Improvviso in fa diesis maggiore op. 36
4 Mazurche op. 33
Scherzo in do diesis minore op. 39
Debussy:
6 Preludi (I Libro)
Voiles
Le vent dans la plaine
Les sons et les parfums tourment dans l’air du soir
Des pas sur la neige
Ce qu’a vu le vent d’ouest
La Cathédrale engloutie
6 Studi (II Libro)
Pour les degrés chromatiques
Pour les agréments
Pour les notes répétées
Pour les sonorités opposées
Pour les arpèges composés
Pour les accords
(Last tickets form the 20 of November)
3 responses so far ↓
So! How was has that concert been?
Surely Pollini was great..and the whole concert amazing..He has played with a power and a grace at the same time uncommon to the pianists of our age.
Pollini is, I think, the last of the Golden Age Pianists (Arrau, Horowitz, Argerich and so on) as far as Italy is concerned, or better the link between that Age and the new one we are facing. The pianists of the past had the incredible ability to forget everything: notes, technique, piano, and music itself, to leave only the beauty of the sound. That is what this concert left to me, what I hadn’t experienced and maybe understood before Pollini live execution at Lingotto in Turin. So thank for this wonderful experience.
Unfortunately, I´ve never had the luck to hear Pollini live in concert, but having heard lots of his recordings, I agree with you. Argerich and him are the last pianists from the golden period of pianism. I really like Zimmerman too
Pianists this days just care about playing the right notes and fast, and not about how they play them or the intention of the composer.
Competition winners look like machines, they play fast and without mistakes, go and listen Yundi Li for example (the winner of the chopin competition in 2000) and compare him with Horowitz in his last. Then tell me what you think
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