(SCORE) Stravinsky / Maurizio Pollini, 1970: Trois Mouvements de Petrouchka - DG 3300 458

[@MrRicksStudio]

Rest in power, Maestro.

[@HelloEveryonez678]

"Critics are not paid to be lost for words. But then human beings are not supposed to be able to play the piano like Pollini." He got that right, spot on!

[@alighieroalighieri404]

Martha Argerich claimed that very few people impressed her in her life, "Bruno Gelber when I was little, then Pollini and then Nelson Freire"

[@ConcordeForever]

The original record issue, which also included the Prokofiev 7th sonata, will remain forever one of the greatest sets of performances by anybody on any instrument. A landmark that will last forever. In the 1970s Pollini was literally incredible. I heard him in London at least a dozen times. He always started nervous and a bit rushed, often over-using the sustaining pedal. But as the recital proceeded and his nervousness abated, he got better and better. By the end he was usually on fire, and the audience ecstatic. Some piano "experts" (aka critics, haha) are very sniffy about him, but with audiences he was rightly hugely admired.

[@The2clock]

OMG... used to listen to this everyday during college time. My inspiration! And so fortunate to see him perform live in Carnegie hall with lots of encores (lots!!!) Very fascinating pianist! We will remember you forever!

[@stutti42]

M. Pollini gave the perfect performance with a playful, humorous work that overwhelms the overall atmosphere of this work, with ballet music based on the psychological depiction of the puppet Petrushka, who must go through pain and tragedy. Thanks, David!

[@jazzoboe44]

There is just no second place to this recording. None. RIP Maestro. He was such an important influence on my musical identity.

[@christianmeyer9317]

Thank you David Hertzberg, for digitizing this fantastic recording and even adding the score. What a treat!

[@davidhertzberg]

My great pleasure, thanks for writing.

[@davidstahl1245]

yes, thank you!

[@PhilippeBrun-qy3st]

Quelle perfection...presque irrationnelle et pourtant si tangible. Merci infiniment.

[@nazarenoorefice2104]

One of the most technically difficult piano tune in piano literature played with an incredible accuracy .In this kind of piano music Pollini is really one of the best if not the best .Perfect .Written for Arthur Rubinstein is incredibly demanding,the benchmark for virtuosos .The other incredible gift of Pollini was to remember contemporary music by heart that was so insane to remember .For instance Pierre Boulez . I played Petrucka and i remember how difficult and demanding technically was .Precision and speed ,hands jumping ,tempo changing .So difficult.Pollini shows a superb control.Technically sensational. Rest in peace maestro

[@stephenloxton43]

Saw him play this in the RFH in 1992. Phenomenal and just as in this recording. Wholly inside the music. He played Debussy's Etudes in the same recital.

[@evifnoskcaj]

Scarily clean and the best inner voicings I've ever heard performed for this piece. Aside from randomly playing forte before the poco meno mosso section, incredible recording and performance! ❤

[@picardbs]

Addio maestro immenso, questo è il tuo capolavoro 😢

[@notaire2]

Wunderschöne und spannende Interpretation dieses technisch anspruchsvollen und perfekt komponierten Klavierwerks im veränderlichen Tempo mit entschiedenem doch präzisem Anschlag und mit möglichst effektiver Dynamik. Die Tonqualität ist auch erstaunlich hoch als eine Kassettenaufnahme von mehr als fünfzig Jahren vor. Wahrlich intelligenter und unvergleichlicher Pianist!

[@alighieroalighieri404]

I saw him perform this live in 1979 in Milan and, believe you me, it was just as perfect as the studio recording. By the way, Pollini posses a photographic memory as stated by the Italian pianist and great pianists biographer, Piero Rattalino.

[@francoisjouachim1064]

Immense œuvre que ce ballet, dont la transcription pour piano un monument technique et poétique.

[@gabrielcastelobranco2409]

Pollini always incredable ! phenomeno

[@mmbmbmbmb]

Incredible the ease with which Pollini is tackling this 'out of the ordinary' composition. Incredible of Stravinsky to come up with a piece like that, Incredible of 'davidhertzberg' to keep up with turning the pages . . . I have a playlist for that >>>sophisticated and/or out of the ordinary

[@たか-y8r2g]

2023 夏のフェスで亀井聖矢さんがこの曲を演奏🎹　なので聴きに来ました🌟　楽しそうな曲だし話題性もあるのでお似合いかも🎉　バレエも観たくなりました😊

[@MorganHayes_Composer.Pianist]

Sounds better than the CD but maybe I’m imagining it .

[@christophedevos3760]

Stunning performance, hard to outdo this. RIP Pollini.

[@littératoure]

Rest in peace Pollini ; he is my favourite interpret for Chopin, I absolutely adore him.

[@JulianHotaling]

Starting around 8:00, the music builds up to expression of great joy- the old folk melody was written a very early aeon by a Saintess, Qeklevtha, in the Hebrides region.... it was named after Uinllean, great joy. The name Stravinsky means the same as Nantosuelta, a kind of free-flowing river.- very anciently, there was a huge river called Uvelebi; most certainly it was in Ukraine as well as in Celtic lands... Stravinsky, was one of the Noble And Grand souls. *Uinnlean Am Pakht*

[@michaelross9970]

Rivales my all time favorite Weissenberg and Sokolov renditions

[@55masatoshi]

今でもこの曲この演奏最高

[@picardbs]

そうですね！

[@peterbusker-fb7tw]

wow!

[@nancywei2312]

Yayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayay!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1111111

[@Classical4Piano]

Stravinsky would have been alive when this was recorded!

[@messrtwinky]

Smooth, easy technique -- quixotic moods. Makes exciting child's play of this fabulously difficult piece. Wish I could have been inside this great pianist's head as he learned this piece. How he approached it. Did he visually memorize it first, as some artists do?!

[@davidhertzberg]

Not sure.. I have always wondered the same thing. I suspect that Pollini becomes one with the music... there is no other way to play a work like this.

[@alighieroalighieri404]

Pollini posses a photographic memory as stated by the Italian pianist and great pianists' biographer, Piero Rattalino.

[@messrtwinky]

@@alighieroalighieri404 Thanks!

[@alighieroalighieri404]

​@@messrtwinky You are most welcome. I think it would be almost impossibile to play by art Boulez or Webern's piano music if Pollini didn't have that type of memory

[@miguel-jq4bv]

Pollini ha comentado en alguna entrevista que la suya no es una memoria visual.

[@rondog540]

Iconic

[@danieltarkin]

9:15 best moment

[@with_yena]

쇼팽에뛰드 교과서께서 페트로슈카 까지 텍스트북의 범위를 넓히셨음.

[@山川川山]

RIP maestro

[@marcofimiani8568]

Impressionante il primo movimento

[@JulianHotaling]

Keiner Klavierer hatte bessere Faehigkeit, zu jener zeiten...!

[@kaleidoscopio5]

I wonder how many pianos destroyed Pollini before getting the right take 😳😳😳

[@CMario73]

🌷

[@voronochik]

10:51 💗

[@JulianHotaling]

Sehr ausserordentlich, anfangen an 7:50 or so, eines Versuchen vielleicht, unersprechliche Freude bilden- durch Entwicklung vom Motiv schon mal ausgedrueckt; viel von dem Werk ist so... Wir koennen nicht denken, Freude ist so verschieden in eine weit entfernt Umgebung, wie Ukraine oder wo es war...!

[@benharmonics]

We came here for 11:44

[@alexbrk1157]

Right on!

[@AlexanderArsov]

I came here for everything from 0:00 to 15:41.

[@colompiano4531]

Wonderful performance. Thanks for sharing it with us!

[@JulianHotaling]

Er kommte aus Jutisch, Keltisch... alle Leuten mit orangem Haar sind Jutisch; der Name Pollini ist Okebeni or Ur-Keltisch fuer Acacia Tree, auch Xantham und Balsam genannt. Die Zeichung von Italia ist Nuin, Zeichung fuer Acacia Baum; am beste Zeichung in Ogham fuer Ash Tree ist wirklich Edhach...

[@rosspiano88]

Just when one favors Weissenberg, Kholodenko, Sokolov,along comes Pollini.