Happy 80th birthday Maurizio Pollini 🎂
📷 Mathias Bothor
"His technique allows you to forget technique. What comes through in all Pollini's performances is an approach to the music – a direct approach, aristocratically clear, powerfully & generously articulated."
- Edward Said
Listening to Maurizio Pollini's beautiful new Chopin disc from @DGclassics
"The music of Chopin has been with me my entire life, since I was a boy. My love for it has become greater and greater for years."
Great cover photo by Cosimo Filippini
open.spotify.com/album/2XfRLYaS…
Cosimo Filippini has photographed Maurizio Pollini for a number of @DGclassics covers, including the complete Beethoven sonatas
Maurizio Pollini by Barbara Pflaum, 1966
Gianni Giansanti
Maurizio Pollini at La Scala, 1987
Maurizio Pollini & Claudio Abbado play #PingPong with Gustavo Dudamel. Not sure who the fourth player is.
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@holdengraber
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