[ Deutsche Grammophon / 14 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Saturday 1 August 2015
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"What matters is not what he can do, for this is only the beginning. What matters is how many ideas occur to him and how much he can demand of the music and of himself. In short, he is an artist who must be taken seriously, a hugely talented pianist who radiates an extraordinary fascination. In a word, he is exciting." - JOACHIM KAISER
"I am the most written-about pianist in the world. I get a review when I dust my piano" - IVO POGORELICH
Here, for the first time in a single box set, are the 14 extraordinary albums that Ivo Pogorelich recorded as an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist between 1981 and 1995. With original cover sleeves and new liner notes by piano expert Gregor Willmes.
"In the Eighties Ivo Pogorelich was the hottest pianist on the planet, combining haute couture with a fabulous technique and very individual artistry" (The Independent)
"These are marvellous and miraculous pieces and, despite some reservations, Pogorelich brings out their vividness, beauty and originality" (ClassicalSource on the Scarlatti sonatas)
"Chopin's Four Scherzos (including Pogorelich's second version of No.3) are given swashbuckling and rhapsodic renditions, enough to divide opinion, the surface sometimes flirted with (most noticeably in the usually elusive E major, No.4, although its Trio section is fastidious) and at other times the composer is revealed soulfully." (ClassicalSource)
Bach, J S:
English Suite No. 2 in A minor, BWV807
English Suite No. 3 in G minor, BWV808
Beethoven:
Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
Brahms:
Capriccio in F sharp minor, Op. 76 No. 1
Rhapsodies (2), Op. 79
Intermezzi (3), Op. 117
Intermezzo in A major, Op. 118 No. 2
Chopin:
Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 'Marche funèbre'
Prelude Op. 45 in C sharp minor (No. 25)
Scherzo No. 3 in C sharp minor, Op. 39
Nocturne No. 16 in E flat major, Op. 55 No. 2
Étude Op. 10 No. 8 in F major
Étude Op. 10 No. 10 in A flat major
Étude Op. 25 No. 6 in G sharp minor
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
Polonaise No. 5 in F sharp minor, Op. 44
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
Preludes (24), Op. 28
Scherzi Nos. 1-4
Haydn:
Piano Sonata No. 30 in D major, Hob.XVI:19
Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, Hob.XVI:46
Liszt:
Piano Sonata in B minor, S178
Mozart:
Piano Sonata No. 5 in G, K283
Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K331 'Alla Turca'
Fantasia in D minor, K397
Mussorgsky:
Pictures at an Exhibition (piano version)
Prokofiev:
Piano Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 82
Ravel:
Gaspard de la Nuit
Valses nobles et sentimentales
Scarlatti, D:
Keyboard Sonata K11 in C minor
Keyboard Sonata K9 in D minor
Keyboard Sonata K135 in E major
Keyboard Sonata K87 in B minor
Keyboard Sonata K159 in C major 'La caccia'
Keyboard Sonata K1 in D minor
Keyboard Sonata K380 in E major
Keyboard Sonata K487 in C major
Keyboard Sonata K119 in D major
Keyboard Sonata K20 in E major
Keyboard Sonata K98 in E minor
Keyboard Sonata K13 in G major
Keyboard Sonata K450 in G minor
Keyboard Sonata K529 in B flat major
Schumann:
Études symphoniques, Op. 13
Toccata in C major, Op. 7
Scriabin:
Piano Sonata No. 2 in G sharp minor, Op. 19 'Sonata Fantasy'
Tchaikovsky:
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23
London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado