Maurizio Pollini – Chopin: Polonaises – Vinyl LP

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Maurizio Pollini’s recordings of the ‘Polonaises’ have attained cult status. Pollini offered playing of outstanding mastery as well as a subtle poetry. His supreme achievement is in suggesting the immediacy of an inspired improvisation, while at the same time preserving the shapely unity of a preconceived whole. To improve the audio quality, the work was mastered and cut from the original 4-track tapes at 45 rpm and redistributed on 2 LPs.

Disc 1
1 Polonaise No. 1 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 26, No. 1
2 Polonaise No. 2 in E-flat Minor, Op. 26, No. 2
3 Polonaise No. 3 in a Major, Op. 40, No. 1, ‘Military’
4 Polonaise No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 40, No. 2

Disc 2
1 Polonaise No. 5 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 44
2 Polonaise No. 6 in A-flat Major, Op. 53, ‘Heroic’
3 Polonaise-fantaisie in A-flat Major, Op. 61