Regarded as one of the greatest pianists of the day, Maurizio Pollini is especially noted for his performances of Chopin and modern composers such as Pierre Boulez. Mr. Pollini’s repertoire ranges from Bach to the most daring contemporary music and includes the cycle of the complete Beethoven sonatas. In 1987, he was presented the Vienna Philharmonic’s Honorary Ring for his performances of the complete Beethoven piano concertos. Pollini has conducted both opera and orchestral music, sometimes leading the orchestra from the keyboard in concertos. Shanghai Concert Hall invite you to attend this piano party showed by Maestro Maurizio Pollini.
 
Program:
Schumann Concerto without Orchestra op.14

(Piano Sonata No.3 in F minor)

Schumann Fantasy in C major op.17

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Sch?nberg Sechs kleine Klavierstucke op.19

Webern Variationen fur Klavier op.27

Debussy 6 Etudes II livre

Maurizio Pollini

A paragon of virtuosity and musical excellence, Maurizio Pollini has been a regular guest artist at all of the music centers of Europe, America and Japan, where he has performed with numerous orchestras under the direction of such conductors as Karl Bohm, Sergiu Celibidache, Herbert von Karajan, Pierre Boulez, Claudio Abbado, Wolfgang Sawallisch and Riccardo Muti. Maurizio Pollini regularly tours the United States, Europe and Asia with performances in Berlin, Boston, Chicago, London, Milan, Munich, New York, Paris, Philadelphia, Salzburg, San Francisco, Tokyo and Vienna.

Pollini’s repertoire ranges from Bach to the most daring contemporary music and includes the cycle of the complete Beethoven Sonatas, which he has performed at Carnegie Hall, La Scala in Milan, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Philharmonie in Berlin, the Salle Pleyel in Paris and London Royal Festival Hall. In 1987, he was presented the Vienna Philharmonic Honorary Ring on the occasion of his performances of the complete Beethoven Piano Concertos with orchestra at Carnegie Hall.

During the 1999/2000 and 2000/01 seasons, Maurizio Pollini devoted an extensive portion of his musical activities to Perspectives: Maurizio Pollini at Carnegie Hall. On this innovative series of nearly thirty concerts across the two seasons, Pollini examined pivotal musical works from the 14th century through the present day. Throughout this series, Pollini collaborated with many of the world’s most distinguished soloists, conductors, chamber ensembles and orchestras. A similar project has started in Vienna and will last until June 2007.

As an exclusive recording artist for Deutsche Grammophon, Pollini has an extensive discography which includes works by Bartok, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Liszt, Mozart, Prokofiev, Schubert, Schumann and Stravinsky. In addition, his recordings of the complete piano works by Schonberg and of works by Berg, Webern, Nono, Manzoni, Boulez and Stockhausen are a testament to his great passion for contemporary music. He has received awards in France, Germany, Belgium, England and the United States for his numerous recordings, including the Edison Prize, the Grand Prix International du Disque, Deutscher Schallplattenpreis, Prix Caecilia Bruxelles, Grammy Award for Best Soloist with Orchestra and Gramophone Award for Best instrumental Record. Awarded the 1996 International Music Prize of the Ernst von Siemens Foundation,

Maurizio Pollini was praised by the Foundation as an “ingenious interpreter and inquisitive explorer” of classic and contemporary music and a “no compromise music intellectual”.

In 2002, Pollini celebrated his 60th birthday and a 30-year artistic collaboration with Deutsche Grammophon with the release of the 13-CD Maurizio Pollini Edition, presenting a wide ranging series of the artist’s classic recordings. DG also released Pollini’s recording of Schumann Kreisleriana in April 2002. In the same year, Kajimoto Concert Management in Tokyo presented a special event, Pollini Project 2002 in Tokyo, consisting of a total of nine concerts, in which Pierre Boulez conducted the opening concert with Pollini and the London Symphony Orchestra. This was reminiscence from another project organized by Kajimoto Concert Management in 1995, “Pierre Boulez Festival in Tokyo”, where Pollini performed the opening concert of this significant event.

On April 8 2003, Pollini’s long-awaited recording of the Beethoven Piano Sonatas cycle was released. The first release was a double CD set featuring his powerful interpretation of the Appassionata Sonata plus a fascinating series of shorter works - all recorded for the first time by the Italian master. The second CD offered a remarkable bonus: two alternative live recordings of the Appassionata and the F sharp major Sonata op. 78, taken from a recital given at Vienna Musikverein in June 2002.

In 2004, Pollini was Artiste Etoile at the Lucerne Festival, where he performed under the baton of Claudio Abbado and Pierre Boulez with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and Lucerne Festival Academy. In September 2005, Pollini’s latest Deutsche Grammophon was released: Chopin Nocturnes. Pollini received the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra) for this recording In 2007. In October 2006, Pollini made his debut in China, presenting a splendid recital at the 9th Beijing International Music Festival with audiences from the whole China.

Maurizio Pollini was born in Milan in 1942 and studied with Carlo Lonati and Carlo Vidusso. In 1960, at the age of 18, he was awarded first prize at the International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. He currently resides with his family in Milan.

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