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Instrumental » Piano Solos » Polonaises
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Hough stresses the Classical outlook of Chopin's Romanticism, even in a programme encompassing some of his most harmonically advanced music. The opening Barcarolle has rare clarity, and the... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th April 2010
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Maurizio Pollini makes it virtually impossible to imagine Chopin's Polonaises played with greater clarity, force and resolution. Not for him the odd approximation or slip of the finger: everything... —
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Horowitz: The Historic Return, Carnegie Hall 1965 & The 1966 Concerts
RecommendedVladimir Horowitz (piano)
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Grammy Awards, 8th Awards (1965), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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Grammy Awards, 8th Awards (1965), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Grammy Awards, 8th Awards (1965), Classical Album of the Year
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Towering virtuosity that triumphs over the primitive Russian technology of the mid-1970s, sending out shockwaves of electrifying pianism, apparently without the slightest effort. —
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Atmospheres are intense, intimate, turbulent and dreamlike by turns; and Cooper injects every note with strength of personality…[her] sense of authority becomes vast in the Polonaise-Fantasie... —
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The Complete Chopin Edition
RecommendedKrystian Zimerman (piano), Claudio Arrau (piano), Anatol Ugorski (piano), Maurizio Pollini (piano), Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano), Maria João Pires (piano), Martha Argerich (piano), Rafal Blechacz (piano), Yundi Li (piano), Lilya Zilberstein (piano), Mikhail Pletnev (piano), Kurt Bauer, Heidi Bung (pianos),...
The quality, both of DG's chosen recordings and the set's general presentation, is just about as good as it gets. To have in one box such wonders as Zimmerman's Ballades, Pollini's Etudes,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th April 2010
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Building a Library, November 2010, First Choice
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All the Pollini hallmarks are here too: chiselled structure, aristocratic demeanour and lucid lines. It’s a serious approach, which isn’t to the detriment of these miniatures. He also judges... —
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Displaying a brilliantly secure technique, the young Polish pianist is fully up to the challenges of these glittering pieces. He also feels the nostalgia and longing of the music, and hearing... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2013, Editor's Choice
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Horowitz: Legendary RCA Recordings
Vladimir Horowitz (piano)
NBC Symphony, RCA Victor Symphony, Arturo Toscanini, Fritz Reiner
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