Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Opp. 101 & 106
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
There’s no doubt his muscular authority in late Beethoven is as commanding as ever, even if technically the performances may not be quite as pristine and brilliant as they would have been half...
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Opp. 101 & 106
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
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There’s no doubt his muscular authority in late Beethoven is as commanding as ever, even if technically the performances may not be quite as pristine and brilliant as they would have been half...
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In 2022, one of the greatest pianists of our time, Maurizio Pollini, celebrated his 80th birthday. After Pollini already recorded Beethoven's sonatas Nos. 28 and 29 back in 1977, he does so again in 2022 in order to elicit the last secrets from these late sonatas in a new interpretation. Herewith he completes the late sonatas, after the release of the successful 2020 album 'Beethoven - The Last Sonatas'. Like all of Beethoven's late sonatas, these defied the formal conventions common to the genre and were thus ahead of their time. Beethoven no longer cared about constraints in society and music, instead giving free rein to his subjective feelings. Possibly it was precisely this flow of true emotions characterized his late sonatas - especially his Piano Sonata in A major op. 101 is characterized by ruptures and radical changes, and celebrates life at the end, full of wit and joie de vivre, human and transcendent.
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- Maurizio Pollini (piano)
- Recorded: 2022
- Recording Venue: Herkulessaal, Munich
- Maurizio Pollini (piano)
- Recorded: 2022
- Recording Venue: Herkulessaal, Munich
Awards and reviews
8th December 2022
There’s no doubt his muscular authority in late Beethoven is as commanding as ever, even if technically the performances may not be quite as pristine and brilliant as they would have been half a century ago...one is always aware of the wealth of experience and understanding that is informing every bar of his playing.
