Product DescriptionThe lasting and exclusive relationship between Maurizio Pollini and Deutsche Grammophon began in 1971, eleven years after the pianists victory in the 1960 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw at the age of eighteen. With the exception of the Chopin works he set down immediately thereafter, Pollinis entire recording career has been with DG.
During the course of this amazing collaboration, Pollini has produced an abundance of albums which continue to be viewed as benchmarks from Bach, Schumann and Schubert to Chopin and the modernists, and his beloved Beethoven sonatas (in 2014, Pollini completed the first Beethoven cycle since Barenboims in the early 80s), and great concerto recordings with Abbado, Bohm and Thielemann.
Celebrating his 75th birthday in 2017, this luxurious 55CD set presents Pollinis complete recordings on Deutsche Grammophon with their original covers, including the first ever release of Prokofievs Third Piano Concerto with the NHK Symphony Orchestra under Maxim Shostakovich (recorded in Tokyo in 1974).
Also included are 3 bonus DVDs: great concerto recordings Bohm and Abbado as well as Bruno Monsaingeons acclaimed documentary film De main de maitre (2015). This set is accompanied by a 200-page booklet featuring new liner notes by the longtime Pollini companion Paolo Petazzi, an extensive additional text by Pollinis foremost producer for DG, Christopher Alder and numerous rare photographs.
PRODUCT OVERVIEW
Pollinis entire DG recordings spanning his exclusive relationship with the Yellow Label.
Three bonus DVDs, which include great concerto recordings Bohm and Abbado as well as Bruno Monsaingeons acclaimed documentary film De main de maître (2015).
200-page booklet:
New liner notes by the longtime Pollini companion Paolo Petazzi
An extensive additional text by Pollinis foremost producer for DG, Christopher Alder, providing unique insight on the day-to-day work of producing recordings with Pollini
Numerous rare b/w and color photographs
CD 1 STRAVINSKY, PROKOFIEV, WEBERN & BOULEZ
CD 2 CHOPIN
CD 3 SCHUMANN
CD 4 NONO
CD 5 SCHUBERT
CD 6 SCHOENBERG
CD 7 CHOPIN
CD 8 9 BEETHOVEN
CD 10 CHOPIN
CD 11 MOZART
CD 12 BRAHMS
CD 13 15 BEETHOVEN
CD 16 BARTÓK
CD 17 BRAHMS
CD 18 BRAHMS
CD 19 SCHUMANN
CD 20 CHOPIN
CD 21 22 SCHUBERT
CD 23 BEETHOVEN
CD 24 LISZT
CD 25 SCHUMANN
CD 26 CHOPIN
CD 27 BEETHOVEN
CD 28 DEBUSSY
CD 29 31 BEETHOVEN
CD 32 33 BRAHMS
CD 34 DEBUSSY
CD 35 BEETHOVEN
CD 36 BEETHOVEN
CD 37 CHOPIN
CD 38 SCHUMANN
CD 39 SCHUMANN
CD 40 BEETHOVEN
CD 41 BEETHOVEN
CD 42 MOZART
CD 43 44 CHOPIN
CD 45 BEETHOVEN
CD 46 MOZART
CD 47 CHOPIN
CD 48 49 BACH
CD 50 BRAHMS
CD 51 CHOPIN
CD 52 BEETHOVEN
CD 53 BRAHMS
CD 54 BEETHOVEN
CD 55 (BONUS CD) PROKOFIEV
BONUS DVDs
POLLINI PORTRAIT (2 DVD)
BEETHOVEN, WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART & JOHANNES BRAHMS
MAURIZIO POLLINI de main de maître
Béla Bartók · Ludwig van Beethoven · Pierre Boulez · Frédéric Chopin · Claude Debussy · Luigi Nono
Sergei Prokofiev · Arnold Schoenberg · Robert Schumann · Karlheinz Stockhausen
Artur Rubinstein
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli