Maurizio Pollini flops before a half-empty hall
NewsLast night in Zurich was another embarrassment for the 81 year-old Italian. Christian Berzins reports in his review that he had repeated first-half disagreements with the page-turner both in a Chopin mazurka, which Pollini has played all his life, and in a complex tape work by Luigi Nono.
For an encore, he began a Chopin ballade before the page-turner sat down, telling her loudly, ‘I don’t need you.’
The discomfort was widespread.
Read Berzins review here.
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