Maurizio Pollini – Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 4 & 9-11 (Opp.7, 14 & 22) (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Maurizio Pollini – Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 4 & 9-11 (Opp.7, 14 & 22) (2013)
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Beethoven’s Op. 7 and Op. 22, both standard four-movement works, frame the two lyrical Op. 14 sonatas, cast in three movements. These smaller-scale sonatas make fewer virtuosic demands on the soloist, yet are by no means lacking in poetic intensity and clarity. One of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, Maurizio Pollini embarked on a project to record the entire cycle of Beethoven’s piano sonatas in 1975. This 2013 installment, showcasing Pollini’s typical masterful artistry and technical bravado, is the second-to-last volume in the series.

“The hallmarks of Pollini’s musical and pianistic style are everywhere in evidence here: his powerful technique, the elegance and delicacy of his fingerwork even when the music is dramatic or forceful.” –International Record Review

“Pollini does wonderful things there. Likewise, for Pollini’s detractors, he has a willful interpretive streak that can jangle the nerves if you don’t connect with what he’s doing. There’s plenty of ammunition for both sides of the debate on this recording, comprising an attractive selection of four early sonatas, two of them grand four-movement pieces of symphonic scope, and two, the pair of Op. 14 works, small lyrical works that look forward to the Romantics.” –AllMusic

“a curious mix of the magisterial and the severe. The two tendencies co-exist in the biggest of the sonatas here, the E flat Op 7, where passages of fabulous clarity and poise are punctuated with explosive chords . . . sometimes the overbearing element can vanish altogether, as it does in Pollini’s delicate, quicksilver account of the first of the Op 14 pair, in G major. –The Guardian

Tracklist:

01. Maurizio Pollini – Piano Sonata No.4 In E Flat, Op.7: 1. Allegro molto e con brio (07:34)
02. Maurizio Pollini – Piano Sonata No.4 In E Flat, Op.7: 2. Largo, con gran espressione (07:20)
03. Maurizio Pollini – Piano Sonata No.4 In E Flat, Op.7: 3. Allegro (04:30)
04. Maurizio Pollini – Piano Sonata No.4 In E Flat, Op.7: 4. Rondo (Poco allegretto e grazioso) (06:34)
05. Maurizio Pollini – Piano Sonata No.9 In E, Op.14 No.1: 1. Allegro (06:01)
06. Maurizio Pollini – Piano Sonata No.9 In E, Op.14 No.1: 2. Allegretto (02:34)
07. Maurizio Pollini – Piano Sonata No.9 In E, Op.14 No.1: 3. Rondo (Allegro comodo) (03:00)
08. Maurizio Pollini – Piano Sonata No.10 In G, Op.14 No.2: 1. Allegro (05:46)
09. Maurizio Pollini – Piano Sonata No.10 In G, Op.14 No.2: 2. Andante (04:54)
10. Maurizio Pollini – Piano Sonata No.10 In G, Op.14 No.2: 3. Scherzo (Allegro assai) (03:05)
11. Maurizio Pollini – Piano Sonata No.11 In B Flat, Op.22: 1. Allegro con brio (06:45)
12. Maurizio Pollini – Piano Sonata No.11 In B Flat, Op.22: 2. Adagio con molto espressione (06:15)
13. Maurizio Pollini – Piano Sonata No.11 In B Flat, Op.22: 3. Menuetto (03:03)
14. Maurizio Pollini – Piano Sonata No.11 In B Flat, Op.22: 4. Rondo (Allegretto) (05:21)

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