SALZBURG — It was a night of preludes with pianist Maurizio Pollini at his Steinway-Fabbrini touring piano before a sold-out crowd in the Grosses Festspielhaus. Chopin’s 24 Preludes op. 28 may well be ...

In 1960, an 18-year-old Italian pianist, the youngest contestant, won the prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition, held every five years in Warsaw. “That boy,” the revered pianist Arthur ...

The Preludes are a funny collection. I’ve never been convinced that they really fit together as a whole – it’s a little too like listening to the equivalent of a patchwork quilt, in a way that ...

The more suggestive the music, the more diverse the ways it can be understood. Debussy disliked the term “Impressionism”, but the wash of sounds that creates a series of 24 images in his Préludes is ...

There was much about this recital from the legendary pianist that was terrific, says Ivan Hewett, but plenty was missing too Mixed blessings: Maurizio Pollini's recital at the Festival Hall did not ...

An all-Chopin recital April 18 at Carnegie Hall by the Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini, who gives further performances of the same composer’s music on April 29 and May 9, contained spiritual, even ...

Maurizio Pollini began his magisterial five-concert survey of the peaks of piano literature with the first book of Bach’s 48 Preludes and Fugues. This great compendium of fugal technique has been ...

Beethoven and Chopin are not an obvious coupling, but they are the two composers with whom, perhaps, Maurizio Pollini is most associated - Chopin, because winning the Warsaw Chopin Competition in 1960 ...

Maurizio Pollini shuffles on stage like an aging but still willing valet. Then he sits at his Steinway (customised by the Italian firm Fabbrini: he never leaves home without it) and instantly he ...

Judging by the furious disagreements in the foyer during the interval, and the arguments later on the net, the first event in the Pollini Project has divided people as piano recitals rarely do. In ...