Venue: Concert Hall
Dates: September 28, 2018
About
From September 13th to November 28th, world-renowned symphony orchestras and in-demand maestros will ehchant the audiences at the “NCPA Pure Classical 2018”, a NCPA series that presents absolute essentials of classical music in the autumn. The star-studded classical music feast invites orchestras Berliner Philharmoniker, the Staatskapelle Dresden, Das Orchester Der Staatsoper Berlin, Orchestra dell´Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, conductors Gustavo Dudamel, Christian Thielemann, Daniel Barenboim, Sir Antonio Pappano, artists Lang Lang, Annie-Sophie Mutter and Emmanuel Pahud, to name just a few.
Programme
Schumann
Arabeske, Op. 18
Allegro, Op. 8
Concerto without Orchestra (1836 version in three movements)
——Intermission——
Chopin
2 Nocturnes, Op. 55
Sonata No. 3, Op. 58
Artist
Maurizio Pollini Pianist
The name Maurizio Pollini evokes an extremely important career, the story of a man and an artist known all over the world, prized by audiences and critics of every latitude and several generations.
Protagonist since over 40 years in all the major European, American and Japanese concert halls and festivals, Maurizio Pollini has performed with the most celebrated conductors and orchestras.
He has been awarded many International prizes: the Vienna Philharmonic Ehrenring in 1987, the Goldenes Ehrenzeichen of the Town Salzburg in 1995, the Ernst-von-Siemens Music Prize in Munich in 1996, the “A Life for Music – Artur Rubinstein” Prize in Venice in 1999 and the Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Prize in Milan in 2000. In October 2010 Pollini was awarded the prestigious Praemium Imperiale in Tokyo and in 2012 the Royal Philharmonic Society award for the cycle of five concerts performed in London in 2011. In2013, Pollini was awarded Laurea Honoris Causa of the Complutense University, Madrid.
In 1995 Maurizio Pollini opened the festival that Tokyo dedicated to Pierre Boulez. In the same year and then in 1999, the Salzburg Festival invited him to devise and present his own cycle of concerts, which included the programme works of different epochs and styles. Later, in the years between 1999 and 2006 with the same philosophy, Maurizio Pollini realized new cycles performed in New York at the Carnegie Hall (in 1999/2000 and 2000/01), in Paris for la Cité de la Musique and in Tokyo (both in 2002), in Rome at the Parco della Musica (March 2003) and Vienna with programmes including both chamber and orchestral performances, and mirroring his wide musical tastes from Gesualdo and Monteverdi to the present. In the summer of 2004, he was the “Artist Etoile” at the Lucerne Festival, performing a recital and concerts with orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado and Pierre Boulez. New cycles have been devised between 2008 and 2013 at the Lucerne Festival, Accademia di Santa Cecilia Roma, Cité de la Musique Paris, Teatro alla Scala Milano, in Tokyo and in Berlin.
New cycles have been devised 2008 in Roma Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Paris Cité de la Musique and Milano Teatro alla Scala in 2009.
Maurizio Pollini’s repertoire ranges from Bach to contemporary composers (including première performances of works by Manzoni, Nono and Sciarrino) and includes the complete Beethoven Sonatas, which he has performed in Berlin, Munich, Milan, New York, London, Vienna and Paris.
He has recorded works from the classical, romantic and contemporary repertoire to worldwide critical acclaims. His recordings of the complete works for piano by Schoenberg, and of works by Berg, Webern, Manzoni, Nono, Boulez and Stockhausen are a testament to his great passion for music of the 20th century.
Pollini’s recent recording of the Chopin Nocturnes was received with the greatest enthusiasm by audience and critics alike. In 2007 he was awarded a Grammy for the best Instrumental Soloist Performance and the Disco d’Oro, in 2006 an Echo Award (Germany), the Choc de la Musique, Victoires de la Musique and Diapason d’Or de l’Année (France). His recording of the Mozart piano Concertos No. 12 KV414 and No. 24 KV491 with the Vienna Philharmonic was released in April 2008 and was followed by a second CD with Concertos No.17 KV453 and n.21 KV467 and by a new recording dedicated to Chopin. Brahms No. 1 with Staatskapelle Dresden and Christian Thielemann has been released both in CD and DVD late fall 2011, Brahms No. 2, always with Dresden and Thielemann spring 2014.
DGG has released a three-box set dedicated to the Art of Maurizio Pollini. October 2012 a new CD featuring Chopin Préludes and other pieces.
