Debussy: Préludes II Maurizio Pollini

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Album-Release:
2018

HRA-Release:
16.02.2018

Label: Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Instrumental

Artist: Maurizio Pollini

Composer: Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)

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  • Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918): Préludes - Book 2, L.123:
  • 11. Brouillards02:37
  • 22. Feuilles mortes02:25
  • 33. La puerta del vino02:37
  • 44. Les fées sont d'exquises danseuses03:00
  • 55. Bruyères02:20
  • 66. General Lavine - eccentric02:17
  • 77. La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune03:35
  • 88. Ondine02:49
  • 99. Hommage à S. Pickwick, Esq., P.P.M.P.C.02:27
  • 1010. Canope02:25
  • 1111. Les tierces alternées02:28
  • 1212. Feux d'artifice04:06
  • En blanc et noir, L.134:
  • 131. Avec emportement04:14
  • 142. Lent. Sombre07:11
  • 153. Scherzando04:10
  • Total Runtime48:41

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Legendary pianist Maurizio Pollini celebrates Debussy’s centenary year with Deutsche Grammophon album of Préludes II and En blanc et noir, the latter recorded in duo with his son. Twenty years ago Maurizio Pollini recorded the first book of Debussy’s Préludes, investing years of experience into its dozen pieces. Préludes II is set to stand among the most significant tributes to Debussy a century after his death.

Maurizio Pollini, piano
Daniele Pollini, piano


Maurizio Pollini
was born in 1942 and studied with Carlo Lonati and Carlo Vidusso. After winning First Prize at the 1960 Warsaw Chopin Competition, he went on to establish an international career of the greatest importance, performing in the world’s major concert halls and working with the most distinguished orchestras and conductors including Karl Boehm, Herbert von Karajan, Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, and Riccardo Muti. He was awarded the Vienna Philharmonic Ehrenring in 1987 after performing the Beethoven concertos in New York, the Ernst-von-Siemens Music Prize in Munich in 1966, the ‘A Life for Music – Arthur Rubinstein’ Prize in Venice in 1999 and the Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Prize in Milan in 2000.

In 1995 Maurizio Pollini opened the Festival that Tokyo dedicated to Pierre Boulez and, in the same year, he devised and performed in his own concert series at the Salzburg Festival. He gave similar concert series in New York at Carnegie Hall, in Paris for la Cité de la Musique,Tokyo, and in Rome at the Parco della Musica. The programmes included both chamber and orchestral performances and mirrored his wide musical tastes from Gesualdo and Monteverdi to the present. In summer 2004 he was the ‘Artist Etoile’ at the International Festival Lucerne, performing a recital and concerts with orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado and Pierre Boulez.

Maurizio Pollini’s repertoire ranges from Bach to contemporary composers (including première performances of Manzoni, Nono and Sciarrino) and includes the complete Beethoven Sonatas, which he has performed in Berlin, Munich, Milan, New York, London, Vienna and Paris. He has recorded works from the classical, romantic and contemporary repertoire to worldwide critical acclaim. His recordings of the complete works for piano by Schoenberg, and of works by Berg, Webern, Manzoni, Nono, Boulez and Stockhausen, are a testament to his great passion for music of the 20th century. Most recently Maurizio Pollini was responsible for the commissioning of the expansion of the original Grido (String Quartet No.3) by Helmut Lachenmann - a pupil of Nono - into Double (Grido II) for a 48-strong string orchestra.

In 2007 Pollini was awarded a Grammy for best Instrumental Soloist Performance and the Disco d’Oro; he received the 2006 Echo Award in Germany, and the Choc de la Musique, Victoires de la Musique and Diapason d’Or de l’Année in France. Most recently he won the Echo Klassik award in the Best Concerto category for his recording of the Brahms First Piano Concerto with Christian Thielemann and the Staatskapelle Dresden.

In 2010 Pollini performed the Chopin Birthday Recital on the anniversary of the composer’s birth in the International Piano Series in London as part of the Chopin 200 celebrations and last season he played a highly successful series of five recitals in the Piano Series at the Royal Festival Hall - The Pollini Project – charting the development of piano music from Bach to Boulez, for which he won the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist award.

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