Maurizio Pollini: 20th Century / Abbado, Sinopoli, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rund and Berliner Philharmoniker

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Album Summary

Performers

• Maurizio Pollini (Piano)
• Slavka Taskova (Soprano)

Conductors

• Abbado, Claudio
• Sinopoli, Giuseppe

Ensemble

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Composers

• Anton Webern (1883 - 1945)
• Giacomo Manzoni (1932 - )
• Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
• Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
• Pierre Boulez (Composer, Conductor) (1925 - )
• Arnold Schoenberg (1874 - 1951)
• Alban Berg (1885 - 1935)
• Sergey Prokofiev (1891 - 1953)
• Luigi Nono (1924 - 1990)
• Béla Bartók (1881 - 1945)

Notes & Reviews:

From the outset of his recording career, Maurizio Pollini has championed modern music - in benchmark accounts of Bartók, Boulez, Manzoni, Nono, Prokofiev, Schoenberg, Stravinsky and Webern, to which can be added his later recordings of Debussy and Berg. Here are his complete recordings of 20th-century music, brought together on a specially-priced 6-CD set for the first time.

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Stravinsky, Igor : Movements (3) from Pétrouchka

• Performer: Maurizio Pollini (Piano)
• Running Time: 15 min. 22 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1921

Prokofiev, Sergei : Sonata for Piano no 7 in B flat major, Op. 83

• Performer: Maurizio Pollini (Piano)
• Running Time: 17 min. 4 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1939-1942

Webern, Anton : Variations for piano, Op. 27

• Performer: Maurizio Pollini (Piano)
• Running Time: 5 min. 25 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1935-1936

Boulez, Pierre : Sonata for Piano no 2

• Performer: Maurizio Pollini (Piano)
• Running Time: 29 min. 31 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1947-1948

Nono, Luigi : Como una ola de fuerza y luz, for soprano, piano, orchestra & tape

• Performers: Maurizio Pollini (Piano); Slavka Taskova (Soprano)
• Notes: Composition written: 1972.
• Running Time: 2 min. 33 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1972

Nono, Luigi : ...sofferte onde serene..., for piano & tape

• Performer: Maurizio Pollini (Piano)
• Running Time: 14 min. 6 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1976

Manzoni, Giacomo : Masse, for piano, tape & orchestra "Omaggio a Edgard Varèse"

• Performer: Maurizio Pollini (Piano)
• Conductor: Giuseppe Sinopoli
• Running Time: 19 min. 31 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1976-1977
• Studio/Live: Live

Schoenberg, Arnold : Pieces (3) for piano, Op. 11

• Performer: Maurizio Pollini (Piano)
• Running Time: 13 min. 1 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1909

Schoenberg, Arnold : Little Pieces (6) for piano, Op. 19

• Performer: Maurizio Pollini (Piano)
• Running Time: 4 min. 52 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1911

Schoenberg, Arnold : Pieces (5) for piano, Op. 23

• Performer: Maurizio Pollini (Piano)
• Running Time: 9 min. 45 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1920-1923

Schoenberg, Arnold : Suite for piano, Op. 25

• Performer: Maurizio Pollini (Piano)
• Running Time: 12 min. 33 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1921-1923

Schoenberg, Arnold : Pieces (2) for piano, Op. 33

• Performer: Maurizio Pollini (Piano)
• Running Time: 5 min. 53 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1928-1931

Schoenberg, Arnold : Piano Concerto, Op. 42

• Performer: Maurizio Pollini (Piano)
• Conductor: Claudio Abbado
• Notes: Composition written: 1942.
• Running Time: 19 min. 10 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Concerto
• Written: 1942

Béla Bartók (1881 - 1945) : Concerto for Piano no 1, Sz 83

• Performer: Maurizio Pollini (Piano)
• Conductor: Claudio Abbado
• Running Time: 23 min. 30 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Concerto
• Written: 1926-1929

Béla Bartók (1881 - 1945) : Concerto for Piano no 2, Sz 95

• Performer: Maurizio Pollini (Piano)
• Conductor: Claudio Abbado
• Running Time: 27 min. 32 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Concerto
• Written: 1930-1931

Debussy, Claude : Études (12) for piano in 2 books, L. 136

• Performer: Maurizio Pollini (Piano)
• Running Time: 39 min. 23 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1915

Berg, Alban : Sonata for Piano, Op. 1

• Performer: Maurizio Pollini (Piano)
• Running Time: 10 min. 41 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: circa 1907-1908

Debussy, Claude : Préludes, Book 1

• Performer: Maurizio Pollini (Piano)
• Running Time: 36 min. sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1907-1910

Debussy, Claude : L'isle joyeuse

• Performer: Maurizio Pollini (Piano)
• Running Time: 5 min. 40 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1904