Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pianist Maurizio Pollini presents his award in the category 'Instrumentalist/Piano' at the 'Echo-Klassik' classical music award ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pianist Maurizio Pollini performs at Carnegie Hall in New York in 2001. (Robert Mecea / Associated Press) In 1960, an 18-year-old ...

Maurizio Pollini’s complete recordings for Deutsche Grammophon have been gathered in one place, allowing listeners to trace his entire career. By David Weininger Maurizio Pollini didn’t think his ...

The principal delight of hearing familiar pieces played at classical-music concerts is the restoration of their shock value. Classical art is the modernism and aesthetic radicalism of the past, and ...

The great Italian pianist is 70 today. We celebrate - and listen to - his legacy as pianist, musician, and advocate of contemporary music. Today is Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini's 70th birthday.

Love him or hate him, Maurizio Pollini has been one of the defining — and most polarizing — pianists of the last 50 years. His razor-sharp technique and modern, cooly intellectual approach to music ...

FILE - Pianist Maurizio Pollini performs at Carnegie Hall in New York Monday evening, March 19, 2001. Grammy-winning Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini has died. He was 82. Pollini performed frequently ...

Maurizio Pollini, a celebrated Italian pianist whose playing combined intellectual rigor with technical mastery, died March 23 at age 82. The death was announced by Milan’s La Scala opera house, where ...

Schubert's last three sonatas, which made up the latest of Maurizio Pollini's five London recitals this season, have a unity and are hewn from the same materials in ways that Beethoven's final three, ...

In 1960, an 18-year-old Italian pianist, the youngest contestant, won the prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition, held every five years in Warsaw. “That boy,” the revered pianist Arthur ...

Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini, a virtuoso of Chopin and Beethoven who enjoyed a decades-long collaboration with La Scala, died on Saturday age 82, the Milan opera house announced. He had been in ...