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Chopin: 24 Preludes; Nocturnes; Mazurkas; Scherzo
Master pianist Maurizio Pollini turned 70 on January 5th, 2012. We celebrate this milestone birthday with a new album of breathtaking Chopin. Its Chopin who launched Pollinis career back in 1960 the artist won the Chopin Competition. Pollinis Chopin recordings are his best-sellers the complete Nocturnes, released in 2005, have sold more than 100,000 CDs to date. Chopin features often in Pollinis solo recitals The Guardian raved, ... he still plays Chopin with the ease that floored even Rubinstein more than 50 years ago ...It's a birthday programme of newly recorded solo works: Preludes op. 28, four Mazurkas op. 30, two Nocturnes op. 27, and the Scherzo no. 2 op. 31. This new album ties-in with DGs major birthday catalogue-release campaign begun in autumn 2011 through 2014. The booklet contains four language versions: English, French, German and Italian.