Pollini begins the first fugue at 80 bpm and it eventually speeds up to 100 bpm. This is a huge discrepancy and is careless for someone of his stature. There are some nice moments though, like the second adagio section which he plays much better than the first arioso (which he murders and his tone and balance is awful). Watch a far superior live performance of op.110 by the 85-year-old Aldo Cicollini, which will move you to tears. Pollini is overrated in my opinion.
Thank you so very much for posting this video - Pollini is so often (TOO often) dismissed as a mere technician, when in fact he is a patrician artist, playing always with the deepest feeling and reflection as well as formidable intellectual control. What a shattering account of the final movements of this great work!!
Quando Beethoven raggiunse i confini della metafisica, armonica e melodica delle ultime Sonate per Pianoforte, diede anche alcuni importanti spunti alle opere dell'ultimo periodo di Liszt. Ma in questa opera Pollini si dedica molto di più alle profondità abissali di un melodismo lirico e armonico, ricco di una luce interiore che fa pensare molto di più a certi elementi di Debussy, o al primo periodo di Skryabin. Una genialità che deriva dal senso analitico e interpretativo di Pollini.
This is for me the most beautiful, dinamic and unexpected movement of the sonata.
I love the Klagender Gesang, the first attemp of reconciliation of the fugue, the second part of the despaired, deeply sad melody and the final, definitive response of the fugue's inversion. One could almost read a life's history here.
Pollini is great, because he is able to make a coherent, technically accurate and sensitive performance, HIS performance, for sure.
@felipilloo1984 Oh yeah, and in the end, Beethoven goes higher and grander, in that noble and heroic melody until it reaches Heaven itself on that last A flat major chord!
technically it's great, but I am not happy with the Fugue. The Fugue is too easy to wash over in pianistic bombast, and it seems almost every "great" pianist prevents some of the really playful syncopation in that beautiful Fugue.
Pollini begins the first fugue at 80 bpm and it eventually speeds up to 100 bpm. This is a huge discrepancy and is careless for someone of his stature. There are some nice moments though, like the second adagio section which he plays much better than the first arioso (which he murders and his tone and balance is awful). Watch a far superior live performance of op.110 by the 85-year-old Aldo Cicollini, which will move you to tears. Pollini is overrated in my opinion.
BachScholar 3 months ago
@BachScholar I had a look at your channel.I will not do that anymore.Promised!.:)
abmsghost1 2 months ago
Thank you so very much for posting this video - Pollini is so often (TOO often) dismissed as a mere technician, when in fact he is a patrician artist, playing always with the deepest feeling and reflection as well as formidable intellectual control. What a shattering account of the final movements of this great work!!
robertholliston 3 months ago
sono soltanto dei virtuosi della musica classica congratulazioni, e veramente un opera därte Luigi
0rluva 3 months ago
Quando Beethoven raggiunse i confini della metafisica, armonica e melodica delle ultime Sonate per Pianoforte, diede anche alcuni importanti spunti alle opere dell'ultimo periodo di Liszt. Ma in questa opera Pollini si dedica molto di più alle profondità abissali di un melodismo lirico e armonico, ricco di una luce interiore che fa pensare molto di più a certi elementi di Debussy, o al primo periodo di Skryabin. Una genialità che deriva dal senso analitico e interpretativo di Pollini.
darkblueangel1956 7 months ago
@arielrgh I agree. His 1976 recording of the late sonatas (particularly this one) is divine! This movement literally moved me to tears.
johnnydavis23 9 months ago
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johnnydavis23 9 months ago
This is for me the most beautiful, dinamic and unexpected movement of the sonata.
I love the Klagender Gesang, the first attemp of reconciliation of the fugue, the second part of the despaired, deeply sad melody and the final, definitive response of the fugue's inversion. One could almost read a life's history here.
Pollini is great, because he is able to make a coherent, technically accurate and sensitive performance, HIS performance, for sure.
felipilloo1984 1 year ago 10
@felipilloo1984 Oh yeah, and in the end, Beethoven goes higher and grander, in that noble and heroic melody until it reaches Heaven itself on that last A flat major chord!
arielrgh 1 year ago
technically it's great, but I am not happy with the Fugue. The Fugue is too easy to wash over in pianistic bombast, and it seems almost every "great" pianist prevents some of the really playful syncopation in that beautiful Fugue.
johnuio 1 year ago
where are the 1-2 movements?
4785689 1 year ago 7