Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op.43: Variation XVIII (Andante cantabile, a tempo vivace)
Maurizio Pollini (born January 5, 1942) is an Italian classical pianist.
Read Full Bio ↴Maurizio Pollini (born January 5, 1942) is an Italian classical pianist.
He was born in Milan, the son of the Italian rationalist architect Gino Pollini. Maurizio studied piano first with Carlo Lonati, until the age of 13, then with Carlo Vidusso, until he was 18. He received a diploma from the Milan Conservatory and won the International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1960, after which he studied under Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli.
Since the mid-1960s, he has given recitals and appeared with major orchestras in Europe, the United States, and the Far East. He made his American debut in 1968 and his first tour of Japan in 1974.
Regarded as one of the greatest pianists of our age, he is especially noted for his performances of Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Schoenberg, Webern and for championing modern composers such as Pierre Boulez, Luigi Nono and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Important modern works were composed for Pollini, notably Nono’s …sofferte onde serene…, Giacomo Manzoni’s Masse: omaggio a Edgard Varèse and Salvatore Sciarrino's fifth sonata. He displays an absolute technical sovereignty over the piano, but is sometimes criticized for his emotional conservatism. He has conducted both opera and orchestral music, sometimes leading the orchestra from the keyboard in concertos. His first recordings for Deutsche Grammophon in 1971 included Stravinsky’s Three Movements from “Petrushka” and Prokofiev’s Seventh Sonata and is still considered a landmark of twentieth century piano discography. Since then he has been one of Deutsche Grammophon's leading pianists. In 1985, on occasion of Bach's tricentennial, he performed the complete first book of The Well-Tempered Clavier. In 1987 he played the complete Beethoven Piano Concertos in New York with the Vienna Philharmonic under Claudio Abbado and received on this occasion the orchestra’s Honorary Ring. In 1993/1994 he played his first complete Beethoven Piano Sonata cycles in Berlin and Munich and later also in New York, Milan, Paris, London and Vienna. At the Salzburg Festival in 1995 he inaugurated the “Progetto Pollini”, a series of concerts in which old and new works are juxtaposed. An analogous experience will be done at Carnegie Hall in 2000/2001 with “Perspectives: Maurizio Pollini”. In 1996 he received the prestigious Ernst von Siemens Music Prize. In 2001 his recording of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations won the Diapason d’or. In 2002 Deutsche Grammophon released a 13 CD commemorative edition to celebrate the pianist's 60th birthday.
In 2007, Pollini received the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra) for his Deutsche Grammophon recording of Chopin nocturnes.
Read Full Bio ↴Maurizio Pollini (born January 5, 1942) is an Italian classical pianist.
He was born in Milan, the son of the Italian rationalist architect Gino Pollini. Maurizio studied piano first with Carlo Lonati, until the age of 13, then with Carlo Vidusso, until he was 18. He received a diploma from the Milan Conservatory and won the International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1960, after which he studied under Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli.
Since the mid-1960s, he has given recitals and appeared with major orchestras in Europe, the United States, and the Far East. He made his American debut in 1968 and his first tour of Japan in 1974.
Regarded as one of the greatest pianists of our age, he is especially noted for his performances of Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Schoenberg, Webern and for championing modern composers such as Pierre Boulez, Luigi Nono and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Important modern works were composed for Pollini, notably Nono’s …sofferte onde serene…, Giacomo Manzoni’s Masse: omaggio a Edgard Varèse and Salvatore Sciarrino's fifth sonata. He displays an absolute technical sovereignty over the piano, but is sometimes criticized for his emotional conservatism. He has conducted both opera and orchestral music, sometimes leading the orchestra from the keyboard in concertos. His first recordings for Deutsche Grammophon in 1971 included Stravinsky’s Three Movements from “Petrushka” and Prokofiev’s Seventh Sonata and is still considered a landmark of twentieth century piano discography. Since then he has been one of Deutsche Grammophon's leading pianists. In 1985, on occasion of Bach's tricentennial, he performed the complete first book of The Well-Tempered Clavier. In 1987 he played the complete Beethoven Piano Concertos in New York with the Vienna Philharmonic under Claudio Abbado and received on this occasion the orchestra’s Honorary Ring. In 1993/1994 he played his first complete Beethoven Piano Sonata cycles in Berlin and Munich and later also in New York, Milan, Paris, London and Vienna. At the Salzburg Festival in 1995 he inaugurated the “Progetto Pollini”, a series of concerts in which old and new works are juxtaposed. An analogous experience will be done at Carnegie Hall in 2000/2001 with “Perspectives: Maurizio Pollini”. In 1996 he received the prestigious Ernst von Siemens Music Prize. In 2001 his recording of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations won the Diapason d’or. In 2002 Deutsche Grammophon released a 13 CD commemorative edition to celebrate the pianist's 60th birthday.
In 2007, Pollini received the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra) for his Deutsche Grammophon recording of Chopin nocturnes.
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Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Op.43: Variation XVIII
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@miltonmoore5294
@@kenkarapetian4905
Certainment! For the reasons you stated the founding fathers of the United States
of America set up the government as a republic, rather than
a democracy. And a sui generis example of how dumb folks are is that even though the citizens of the USA are taught to memorize the "pledge of allegiance," which reads; "I pledge allegiance to the flag of United States of America. And to the REPUBLIC for which it stands, one nation,
under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all", most folks STILL will refer to the USA as a democracy (mob rule), rather than a republic, the most prominent group
being government officials and politicians THEMSELVES! Now that is the sui generis
example of "dumb"
and a most profoundly illutsratative indicator of how there is no hope
for classical music ever at least matching the popularity of even the
lowest common denominator of any other genre of music.
With gratitude for your kind support, and with appreciation
for the magnetic eloquence of your writing.
@zoeforbes4169
0:04 - intro
0:12 - var 1
0:30 - theme
0:49 - var 2
1:08 - var 3
1:33 - var 4
2:04 - var 5
2:33 - var 6
3:45 - var 7
4:54 - var 8
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@carpballet
About a hundred years ago, while at school, I decided to take intro to classical music. We got discounted tickets so I bought two, took my mom. This was on the bill. It was the first time I’d ever heard it. Immediately fell in love with it. Anyhoo, mom died recently and it made me sad. As an aside, I occasionally work for the local symphony, medium stature. As I was setting stands and lights the guest pianist was practicing on stage. Something was tickling the back of my brain but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. By the time he approached the 18th I knew exactly what was coming. Memories of mom and our trips to the symphony and opera and ballet came flooding into my head and at the exact same time a gust of wind must have blown a bunch of pollen into my eyes because they just started squiring water out and I had to run offstage.
@hspina
I can totally relate !
@1014p
So your about 110 years old then? Guessing based on 100 years ago and school comment likely early teens point muddle school. As a child likely not able to remember a whole suite this big nor its numbers. This does not seem accurate..
@carpballet
@@1014p You sound like a mathematician and/or logician. Are you?
@Cromf
Rachmaninoff is the composer who makes the most beautiful musics. As much as I love Beethoven, Bach, Liszt, Brahms, etc., his compositions are the most sublime I’ve ever heard.
@hopesonmakokha5217
Don't forget Tchaikovsky!
@hopesonmakokha5217
Check out Rachmaninoff symphonic dances op. 45, it's sooo good
@Hhhhhhhhhhhha
He must of been so so in love ❤
@baldmista1907
Don’t forget chopin
@kevintewey1157
If sublime is interesting, then I agree.
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