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Master pianist Maurizio Pollini turned 70 on January 5th, 2012 and DG are celebrating this milestone birthday with a new album of breath-taking Chopin. Pollini’s Chopin recordings are his best-sellers – the complete Nocturnes, released in 2005, have sold more than 100,000 CDs to date.
Chopin: Preludes is a birthday programme of newly recorded solo works: Preludes op.28, four Mazurkas op.30, two Nocturnes op.27, and the Scherzo no.2 op.31. Pollini often feature Chopin’s works in his solo recitals – The Guardian raved, “... he still plays Chopin with the ease that floored even Rubinstein more than 50 years ago ...”
Chopin: 24 Préludes, Op. 28
1. in C major
2. in A minor
3. in G major
4. in E minor
5. in D major
6. in B minor
7. in A major
8. in F sharp minor
9. in E major
10. in C sharp minor
11. in B major
12. in G sharp minor
13. in F sharp major
14. in E flat minor
15. in D flat major ("Raindrop")
16. in B flat minor
17. in A flat major
18. in F minor
19. in E flat major
20. in C minor
21. in B flat major
22. in G minor
23. in F major
24. in D minor
Chopin: Nocturne No.7 in C sharp minor, Op.27 No.1
Nocturne No.7 in C sharp minor, Op.27 No.1
Chopin: Nocturne No.8 in D flat, Op.27 No.2
Nocturne No.8 in D flat, Op.27 No.2
Chopin: 4 Mazurkas, Op. 30
Mazurka No.18 in C minor Op.30 No.1
Mazurka No.19 in B minor, Op.30 No.2
Mazurka No.20 in D flat Op.30 No.3
Mazurka No.21 in C sharp minor Op.30 No.4
Chopin: Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 31
Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 31
January 2013
****
“His sense of phrasing, structure and pacing is undimmed...There are other accounts of the 24 Preludes that are more impassioned, more vividly imagined and coloured, but few are more pure or devoted. Recorded sound is excellent. The fingers are not entirely all they used to be in terms of nimbleness, but that isn't too intrusive.”
1st November 2012
****
“The best of it, especially the B flat minor Scherzo, is superb, the virtuosity effortless, the grip on the formal structure utterly secure, but elsewhere...there's sometimes a chilly relentlessness about the playing, an impatience almost, that keeps the music at a distance.”
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1. in C major
