Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58 - II. Andante con moto Maurizio Pollini, piano· Berliner Philharmoniker · Conductor: Claudio Abbado
Remember hearing Pollini play the Schumann piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony in spring of 1979. Went to see him and get his signature on his Chopin Etudes LP. But Horowitz, who was to play an afternoon recital the next day, was ahead of me as he walked into the artist's room to congratulate Pollini. Horowitz exclaimed, "Pollini, Pollini, Pollini!" And then they conversed while I waited very patiently outside the artist's room. Was amazing to see both Pollini and Horowitz in the same room and conversing. Yes, I did get my Pollini-autographed Chopin Etudes album. He was very kind and gracious. Great memories! May the amazing pianist Pollini rest in peace.
@@karenbryan132 , gosh, that experience now seems so much like the proverbial *yesterday*. It is still so fresh in my mind. The next day after his recital, I managed to get Horowitz to autograph his then rather recentlv released (1977) recording of the Rachmaninoff 3rd Concerto with Ormandy conducting. Have that LP framed and hanging in my home.
The world has lost a great artist, a man who possessed a remarkable combination of artistry and intellect, a true titan of twentieth century pianism. RIP maestro Pollini.
One of the ten greatest pianists of the 20th century. He leaves us his immense recorded work. May he rest in peace and I am very grateful for everything he gave.
I remember when was a child (8/9 year age old) my father carry me at m°Pollini concert for workers and "poor" persons cannot afford the high prices tickets. Mr. Pollini believe to spread the culture to all people like a best grow_up fo elevations for humans! RIP with m• Claudio Abbado and play into heaven with other great musicians!🎹🎶🎼
It was the year 1979, as a piano major student in Sichuan Conservatory,China, I heard Pollini from LP record, I was shocked to such a high quality of playing. I came to Boston and went to his recitals several times. In October 2014, my brother and I went to his recital in Carnegie Hall NYC. He has been a hero in my mind !
RIP MAURIZIO Pollini one of the best pianists of the 20th century. I had the great pleasure and honor to attend some of his concerts! Thank you dear maestro for all the joy you brought to a large number of concert goers. 🌹🌹🌹
Это удар для меня. Умер потрясающий музыкант Маурицио Поллини. Я познакомился с ним через виниловый диск-прилюдии Шопена пятьдесят лет назад и испытал потрясение. Спасибо Маурицио. Пусть земля тебе будет пухом
I was a music student in the 80s. I was introduced to Pollini's recording of the Chopin Etudes by my teacher. I was taken, not only by his technical prowess, but by his feeling and musical intellect. I've seen him numerous times in concert. One of my heros for sure. This news has brought tears to my eyes. My heart goes out to his family.
This is what I love about RU-vid, we get to be introduced to world-class musicians. Forever Mr. Pollini’s music will be enshrined and may we all aspire to live our lives with purpose for the betterment of our fellow man and woman. Thank you for sharing this video with us. ❤
You are right! RU-vid , for the curious mind, is a great, fast and easy way to learn about so many things....in this case, about music, history....so much!...And it is reachable...😊
Rest in peace, Maestro. I fell in love with your music the moment I heard your 1977 (?) performance of Brahms' 2nd Piano Concerto with your great friend Claudio Abbado. From there, I discovered your Chopin, Debussy, and Prokofiev recordings, and was enthralled. While the classical music world will not be the same without your physical presence, your memory and incredible legacy will live on forever through your wonderful musical output ❤️❤️
I saw him 4 times in concert, in the 1980's in Italy and in the 1990's in the USA. Schubert (2 sonatas), Mozart (Kv466), Chopin (2 polonaises, preludes), Stravinsky (Petrushka)... superlative, assertive, but also much more free in his playing that you'd expect it. A true giant amongst the great pianists of the last 100 years.
A 93 year old neighbor let me in on pollini. Through hom I learned the incredible beauty, power and unbelievable skills that it takes to play Beethoven's 5 piano concertos. They continue to thrill me...
I wish to pay tribute to the eminent pianist, the Late Maurizio Pollini. I was incredibly gifted at a tender age to attend a live concert performance at the Philharmonic Hall Berlin, conductor Eugen Jochum, playing the solo role in Chopin Piano Concerto no 2 and subsequently attended a recital at the Musiekverein, Vienna. I recollect going backstage and willingly autographed my concert program, which I retain to this day. I enquired from the Maestro whether he would consider visiting South Africa, which he commented that had no immediate plans for the future. His enduring legacy will be the abiding DG recording of the Late Beethoven piano sonatas. I shall cherish his memory for evermore.
I had the privilege of attending several of his Los Angeles recitals over the decades. His DG recording of the Petrushka transcription and Prokofiev 7th were revelatory, demonstrated his power and accuracy of playing. 'Sun Treader, light and life be thine forever'...
RIP Maurizio. I met him once in NYC when he played a concert. He played the Chopin Sonata in e and a piece by Luigi Nono for piano and electronic tape. For an encore he played some Debussy and also the Ocean Etude. The audience stamped their feet in approval. I got his autograph and I gave him a necktie. He inspired me to learn the Chopin Etudes which I have done.
Since I was a child I listened to the radio and watched on TV many recordings by the maestro Maurizio Pollini, I especially grew up with his Chopin studies and his Mozart 23rd concerto with the Wiener Philarmoniker and the maestro Karl Bohm, this year I have listened to at least 20 times his version of Schumann's sonata Op. 11, for me it's volcanic... that version is the highest version of any in history. His Petroucka is also extraterrestrial, in the best sense, the best between the angelic and the infernal, between black and white, black and white like the keys of the piano where many, millions try but really only a few manage to reach the depths of life. Mauricio Pollini was one of those musical savants who more than achieved it, always offering us and leaving us this wisdom. Have a good trip Master Pollini!!, from the Star he continues to illuminate us with his Art. For so much, total gratitude to maestro Maurizio Pollini forever and ever!!
When he plays, chords that are not heard in other recordings are heard. His formidable dedication, intensity and concentration to music doesn't let me for a single moment slip from the integrity of great masterpieces. Thank you, Maestro. I sincerely weep from my heart. And Thanks for the tribute.
Maurizio Pollini, such a GREAT PIANIST, real Musician, a Shining Human Being , so Humble, so Gifted. . Pollini touched my heart when I was 9 years old and I listened to his Piano Concerto in E Minor by Frederick Chopin on a long play Record. At that time I was living in Central America, in a place where Music was not appreciated as an ART, we did not have any music schools, nor opportunities to attend any concerts. Maurizio Pollini has given us a wonderful LEGACY Thank you so much. He is now part of an ETERNAL Shining Musical Star. . ❣❣🎵🎵🎹🎹🙏🙏🌿☘🍀
Memorabili le incisioni DG degli anni Settanta: Chopin, Stravinskij, Mozart con Karl Bohm e soprattutto le ultime Sonate di Beethoven. La grandezza di Pollini va ricercata in quell' epoca di stupende esecuzioni.
@@lutubo07 No, mi dispiace. Non è questo un parametro che possa dire nulla sulla grandezza di un interprete, in quanto il repertorio frequentato - in privato o in pubblico - è questione di gusto personale, di congenialità, di quid estetico. Vi sono interpreti, direttori, pianisti, violinisti, ecc. che hanno un repertorio risicatissimo, ma non per questo non possono essere definiti interpreti geniali. Faccio un solo esempio: Carlos Kleiber non aveva in repertorio nemmeno tutte le sinfonie di Beethoven o di Brahms, eppure per fortuna è giustamente ed unanimemente considerato uno tra i direttori più geniali in assoluto di tutti i tempi, anche da colleghi che avevano un repertorio infinitamente più vasto. Potrei parlare a lungo del genio assoluto del pianoforte Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli ma me ne astengo. Mi dispiace ma le eventuali "lacune" in repertorio non possono dire alcunchè sulla grandezza di un interprete. Mi auguro di essere stato conclusivamente chiaro.
@@renato45222 @renato45222 preciso: mi riferivo al fatto di spaziare su più epoche, fino agli autori contemporanei. Secondo me è un pregio e non è una questione di gusto.
Aww! I didn’t know he died. A classy, elegant pianist with one of the most precise techniques of all time and a huge varied repertoire. Some of his recordings remain the gold standard. That’s too bad.
😔😢Great Maestro, one of my top favourite musicians, perpetuated legendary performances to keep intelligence and beauty of classical art legacy alive forever 😔😢❤🌹☘ BRAVO FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!
Sad to hear of Pollini's death, though he did look very frail in the last years. A great pianist, one of the greatest of the second half of the 20th century.
Siamo profondamente addolorati ! Abbraccio affettuoso per la cara famiglia del Maestro! Sempre Vostri, Katalin e Peter Ljubimov ( Mosca-Budapest- Gerusalemme)
I remember being knocked out by hearing him on a BBC radio broadcast just days after he won the Chopin Competition. I also remember a sensational performance of the Chopin Etudes at the Festival Hall in London proably in the 60s. Those and many other performances are etched in my memory.. He was a truly great artist..
I live in Poland . I remember Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw 1960 . I was 9 years old . Pollini win the first prise . Now i am very sad : he passed . RIP maestro Pollini .
I've never heard Pollini playing live, but I almost got to hear Arrau playing Beethoven's fith piano concerto at a concert in Stockholm. When I was seated in the concert hall, a guy walked out on the podium an announced that the soloist was ill and had been replaced. That was shortly before (or after) Arrau passed away. The most prominent soloists I've really heard playing live are Szeryng and Galway.
Descansa en paz Pollini en tu viaje rumbo a la inmortalidad. Una vez leí una crítica en Amadeus sobre este concierto que terminaba diciendo: ¿Acaso no será Pollini el mas grande de los pianistas y Abaddo el más grande de los directores?
It is the worst feeling when a person has been before you all your life and then you know you will not have new days, gifts, from them. When Queen Elizabeth died we all knew that feeling if we had never experienced it before . I only heard him once too oung and unknowing to know what I had been in the presence of . 5 Beethoven Sonatas mostly early . Only op.79 mattered to me .I was that young . I really wanted to hear Stravinsky or Boulez 2nd Sonata . Now all he meant is with us in recording but we will not grow WITH him anymore .
Just learned here that the great man had passed away. RIP; one of my favorite pianists - but where to fit them all, Horowitz, Rubinstein and others? Loved Pollini playing Mozart. He aged so gracefully. His face said he had seen a lot of life, including the downside, but his eyes said he held out hope for the human race.
"Un fior nasce e muore.." (Brindisi).. May his soul and all the sound he made on earth rise up to heaven to join the Angel Choirs in Heaven praising the Glory and Honour of our God Creator!
Similar to Martha Argerich and Sviatoslav Richter, Maurizio Pollini had other-worldly technical abilities. Whether you or not you his interpretations were your favorites, he played with unrivaled clarity and intelligence. It is near impossible to hear a Pollini recording without hearing something anew and, similar to Claudio Arrau, there was also deep interpretative thought in anything he performed.
The greatest living musician is no more. His musical intellect and integrity were, and will remain, unequaled. I first heard him in London in 1975; fifty nine years of magic. What a privilege.
Excelentísimo : técnica impecable , pero no mecánica, una interpretación donde volcaba todos sus sentimientos dejando cada una de las notas impregnada de esa, su magia . Gracias por lo supiste darnos y dejarnos .❤
