Schubert: Wanderer Fantasie & Schumann: Fantasie in C major

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The cover shows Caspar David Friedrich's familiar The Wanderer above theSea of Fog. Pollini, on the other hand, is a wanderer in a transparent ether or crystalline light, and both these legendary... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 12th Feb 1996
Catalogue No: 4474512
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Series: Originals
Length: 52 minutes

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Schubert: Fantasie in C major, D760 'Wanderer'

Work length21:34

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Maurizio Pollini (piano)
Recorded: 1973-11
Recording Venue: RCA-Studio, Rome

I. Allegro con fuoco ma non troppo

Track length6:28

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$1.15

II. Adagio

Track length6:36

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III. Presto

Track length4:48

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IV. Allegro

Track length3:42

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Schumann: Fantasie in C major, Op. 17

Work length30:57

$2.55

$3.45

Maurizio Pollini (piano)
Recorded: 1973-04-29
Recording Venue: Residenz, Herkulessaal, Munich

I. Durchaus fantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen - Im Legendenton - Erstes Tempo

Track length12:17

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II. Mäßig. Durchaus energisch - Etwas langsamer - Viel bewegter

Track length7:56

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$1.15

III. Langsam getragen. Durchweg leise zu halten - Etwas bewegter

Track length10:44

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The cover shows Caspar David Friedrich's familiar The Wanderer above theSea of Fog. Pollini, on the other hand, is a wanderer in a transparent ether or crystalline light, and both these legendary performances, recorded in 1973 and beautifully remastered, are of a transcendental vision and integrity. In the Schubert his magisterial, resolutely unvirtuoso approach allows everything its time and place.
Listen to his flawlessly graded triple piano approach to the central Adagio, to his rock-steady octaves at 5'23" (where Schubert's merciless demand is so often the cause of confusion) or to the way the decorations in the Adagio are spun off with such rare finesse, and you may well wonder when you've heard playing of such an unadorned, unalloyed glory. Pollini's Schumann is no less memorable. Doubting Thomases on the alert for alternating touches of imperiousness and sobriety will be disappointed, for, again, Pollini's poise is unfaltering. The opening Moderato is sempre energico, indeed, its central Etwas langsamer is so sensitively and precisely gauged that all possible criticism is silenced. The coda of the central march (that locus classicus of the wrong note) is immaculate and in what someone once called the finale's 'shifting sunset vapour' Pollini takes us gently but firmly to the shores of Elysium. Here is a record that should grace every musician's shelf.

Schubert: Wanderer Fantasie & Schumann: Fantasie in C major

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