Label news: Pollini and son
Newspress release:
In June 2022, the late Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini and his son Daniele, who shared a special love for Schubert, recorded their upcoming album dedicated to three essential aspects of the Viennese composer’s piano music: the sonatas, the cycles of short pieces and the music for four hands.
It is sadly Maurizio’s last ever recording, as he died in March 2024 at the age of 82. Thus, this touching and at the same time profound album by two generations of musicians becomes a legacy and a hopeful look into the future: “With the recent death of my father, the perspective with which I imagined the record and the whole process of its realisation inevitably changed”, says Daniele Pollini. “What presented itself as a very special occasion turned into a unique event, in fact unrepeatable. I am therefore very happy to have had the opportunity to make this album dedicated to Schubert and to have shared with my father what was his last recording.”
This is touching …
A very beautiful and powerful recording, deeply felt. Farewell Maurizio, you gave me so much pleasure throughout all my musical life
Let’s hope this is as good as the hype. Personally, I think Schubert’s Fantasie in F-minor is a giant of a work and one of the greatest things Schubert ever wrote. I’m looking forward to hearing the Pollinis’ recording of it.
My very favorite performance of this masterpiece (the Fantasie in F-minor) is with another father and child: Emil and Elena Gilels. It will be hard for anyone to top the Gilels’ performance, but let’s hope the Pollinis do.
Maurizio Pollini left us with so many tremendous recordings. One of his best is his recording of Schubert’s last three piano sonatas.
Lupu and Perahia!!!!