1/14/2011: You can now hear this entire recording, uninterrupted, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPPP8DDh0SE
I purchased this recording of Pollini playing the Schubert A-minor sonata in the mid-1970s, shortly after it was released by Deutsche Grammophon. The serial number of the cassette version of this recording (made in Canada, and from which this video was created) is 3300 504; the LP equivalent is 2530 473. With the exception of the images of Schubert and the black-and-white photo of Pollini (from my copy of Pollini's 1976/77 DG recording of the late Beethoven sonatas), all images in this video are from the cassette packaging.
Movement 3: Presto
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To view all my DG recordings -- works of Schubert, Chopin, Berg, Liszt and Brahms performed in the 1950s, 60s, 70s, and 80s by Pollini, Askenase, Anda, Fischer-Dieskau, Szidon and others -- please visit the following playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E321AA8F1EC917FC
Pollini's interpretation of the 4th movement of D845 Sonata is my personal favourite.
His playing is crisp, clean, precise, alive. Also, he imbues a sense of folksong into the piece that so many great masters have missed, viz., Kempff, Uchida, Lupu, Haskil, Brendel, Gulda...
An unique interpretation that's being pulled off in great style.
Cissy97 9 months ago
Pollini's interpretation of this movement of D845 Sonata is my personal favourite.
His playing is crisp, clean, precise, alive. Also, he imbues a sense of folksong into the piece that so many great masters have missed, viz., Kempff, Uchida, Lupu, Haskil, Brendel, Gulda...
An unique interpretation that's being pulled off in great style.
Cissy97 9 months ago