Maurizio Pollini
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Maurizio Pollini was born in 1942 and began his studies with Carlo Lonati and Carlo Vidusso. After winning First Prize at the 1960 Warsaw Chopin Competition, he went on to establish an international career of the greatest importance, performing in the world's major concert halls and working with the most distinguished orchestras and conductors. Maurizio Pollini's wide-ranging repertoire ranges includes premieres by Manzoni, Nono and Sciarrino and the complete Beethoven Sonatas, which he has performed in Berlin, Munich, Milan, New York, London, Vienna and Paris. He has an extensive catalogue of recordings for DGG and in 2007 was awarded a Grammy for best Instrumental Soloist Performance. He also received the 2006 Echo Award in Germany, and the Choc de la Musique and Diapason d'Or de l'Ann?e in France. His latest recording - Brahms Piano Concerto No.1 with Christian Thielemann and the Munich Philharmonic has been enthusiastically reviewed the world over.
Archive :: production:T0313472079, concert:S1837261446, venue:V423
Production details
After playing to sold-out audiences at the Royal Festival Hall over the past five decades, the celebrated Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini returns in 2011 to perform an unprecedented series of five solo recitals as a major highlight of Southbank Centre’s 2010/11 International Piano Series. In five colossal programmes entitled The Pollini Project, the maestro takes the audience through the history of the piano repertoire, starting with Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 (28 January), through the monumental late sonatas of Beethoven (15 February) and Schubert (26 February), to two varied programmes that chart the evolution of piano music in the 19th and 20th centuries in France through Chopin, Debussy and Boulez (29 April) and in Central Europe through Schumann, Liszt and Stockhausen (25 May). Pollini said, ‘I have performed this music in London before, but I wanted to have the experience of coming back to, for instance, the Schubert sonatas, which I haven’t played for many years. Play great music - Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Boulez - and then you realise all important composers write in the most impossible language for their time.’
Royal Festival Hall
