Maurizio Pollini plays Mozart Adagio in B minor, K.540 - live 1979

In memory of Maurizio Pollini

[@earlrobicheaux2632]

The world has lost one of it's greatest pianists.

[@Frenzy0212]

I always admired Gulda for his very own style, but even more so I'll always admire Pollini for not having a "personal" style, which in my humble opinion expressed the highest grade of respect for the music itself and the composers ability to write it down.
Rest in peace and endless thanks for the eternal recordings which will accompany me and many others for the rest of our lives.

[@riccardopolignieri8125]

Thank you for such a sensitive and non-mainstream choice. He has been an important part of all our lives, I believe. I remember him as a refined intellectual who poured pure thought into music. He played to provoke thought, and he challenged the intellect. The emotion came later, in a way, when you realised how deeply his music had changed you.

[@MaScalo4508]

A lullaby for a legend… rest in peace, maestro 🕊️, you will be solely missed❤.

[@christianvennemann9008]

Pollini died?! NOOO 😭😭 I love his recordings, especially his Chopin, Debussy, and Prokofiev. RIP to a wonderful pianist! ❤️❤️

[@dskinner6263]

This is a beautiful choice to share with us - thank you. I'm so grateful that I was able to hear Pollini in recital on at least five occasions between 1975 and 2005. Beethoven, Boulez, Webern, Schoenberg, Chopin, Debussy, Schumann, possibly others which I cannot recall at the moment. It is difficult to speak of what I love in his playing without mentioning what I do not, and now is not the time. Besides, if ever there was a musician about whom one could say, "it really doesn't matter what I think, he was a genius", it would be Pollini.

[@georgebrock9391]

I heard the Maestro play in Chicago. RIP dear Great Artist.

[@davidgoulden5956]

Intelligent comment.

[@mihalymok7428]

His strikes created essential sets of silence & sounds and eloquency ~ r. I. P.

[@andrewkennaugh1065]

This is such sad news.I first heard him play 50 years ago,at the QEH in London - the complete works of Schoenberg and sonatas by Beethoven and Schubert.Tremendous!😊
I think the greatest piano concerto is Brahms 2 and greatest sonata the Hammerklavier..he was awesome in both!
RIP Maestro.

[@riccardopini9340]

Grazie , Maestro Pollini .

[@TrillianaEM]

RIP maestro, one of the greatest Chopin performers, to be remembered among the greatest. Grazie!

[@user-vz4fy8uw9y]

Один из лучших. Вечная память

[@Zebobynh0]

Always will be remembered

[@waynesmith3767]

Rest in Peace, Caro Mauricio; thank you for the pleasure your playing brought us.

[@DanutaBoron-wm1ju]

Ponadczasowe nagranie .Mozarta ,W tym wykonaniu. ...

[@iggamaa5740]

Sono cresciuto con te, Maestro. Grazie

[@vivafranz3895]

Anch'io. Sono scosso. Mille ricordi, mille emozioni si affollano alla mia mente. E non ci sono parole che possano descriverle.

[@Flaric99]

Светлая память, Маэстро.

[@jesussendra6540]

Se nos ha ido don Maurizio Pollini, pero queda el arte de un auténtico maestro, por el cual, y a través de él, cada compositor ha podido ser mostrado, revelado y... gracias por todo.
Dios lo tenga en su gloria.

[@pierresentenac]

Je viens saluer et dire un grand merci à ce pianiste d'exception hors du commun qui viens de nous quitter. L'exécution sensible et remarquable de cet adagio montre combien sa fibre mozartienne, était en lui une lumière discrète enthousiasmante pleine de vie!
J'ai commenté, il y a 6 mois environ, ce superbe concerto 23 de Mozart, donné à la scala en 2000 sous la direction de Ricardo Muti, considérant que pour moi mozartien, c'était la plus belle version que j'ai pu entendre et qu'elle ferait date!
Je suis heureux de l'avoir écrit en hommage à ce pianiste de génie! Merci Maurizio ...

[@streight4lk]

Rest in peace Maestro Pollini.

[@davidgoulden5956]

THANKS for this upload. Wanted to hear Maestro Pollini in solo Mozart for a long time. He gave a recital at Carnegie Hall devoted to Mozart around this time. Maestro Pollini will be talked about as long as there are pianos to be played. RIP MAESTRO MAURIZIO POLLINI.

[@dlvanderpeet2602]

Beautiful thank you so much for uploading. He was my favorite pianist. His Berg sonata 😍 Chopin etudes Beethoven my God. RIP

[@beatitudo888]

R.I.P.

[@user-jr6mc4iy3x]

Adieu pollini.you are ginius.thank you.

[@papagen00]

Bravissimo maestro.

[@ldgaming4213]

Rest In Peace Pollini 🕊

[@gfweis]

Thanks, ADGO. I'd not known that the great Pollini had died. His poised technical facility was indeed awesome. There was also a calm, sometimes cool, formality to his playing (both looking back to Michelangeli?), at least in his recordings. But as this lovely live K. 540 shows, he could be extremely expressive as well. He will be long and lovingly remembered.

[@Jockeymahorn]

Rest in peace, Maestro

[@rmkyip5383]

Thank you ADGO for this upload. Great Playing....

[@nmaurok]

Goodbye maestro, you will be greatly missed

[@malgorzatabator-schreiber817]

🌹🌹🌹

[@vinylisland6386]

Shocked. RIP.

[@invictus1961]

Rest in peace. Ich werde ihn sehr vermissen.

[@needmorepractice]

RIP pollini

[@manuel-et4he]

🌹

[@nicolasazais2036]

Moi je dis....Monsieur ❤

[@Pogouldangeliwitz]

I've got a lot of things to say about Pollini this last quarter of a century. And they're almost all bad things.
But now's not the time.
I was crazy about his Chopin etudes and preludes. About the Debussy + Berg album. His Mozart concertos with Böhm. The Beethovens with Abbado.
His live recordings are ALWAYS better than his studio recordings. Those of the 70s and 80s are often outstanding (Schubert! Brahms! Op. 81a, 101!).
I've had a terrible grudge against his playing since at least 20 years. And against the way international audiences overrated him at the expense of younger, way more musical (and technically steady) pianists.
But recordings like this one reconciliate me with Pollini. At least with the "old" Pollini - that is: the young Pollini. 😆

[@winfieldyf6467]

🕯️🕯️🕯️

[@sergio6357]

⚘️

[@presidentstaatshoofd473]

I want the video. Adieu YT Chanel.(

[@user-xg1to5pd1c]

Италия скорбит по поводу кончины знаменитого пианиста Maurizio Pollini.

[@p.a.cthegoldenageofmusic3279]

Beautiful hommage.
I never liked Pollini very much but here and sometimes in Schumann
his materialistic soul seems not to be completeley dead.
Rest in peace we all Hope that in the last moments he could ask forgive and repent

[@jimkost2002]

Well said-he played like an atheist and a Transhumanist.
Transcendental mechanics at the service of …….the machine

[@alegal752]

Grazie Maestro ti amero' per sempre.

[@wolfgangwagner4484]

Very dark. Sounds like schubert
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