Chopin: Etudes Opp 10 and 25 – review

Maurizio Pollini (Testament)After Maurizio Pollini won the Warsaw International Chopin Competition in 1960 at the age of 19, he signed a contract with EMI. The immediate upshot of the arrangement was his outstanding recording of Chopin's First Piano Concerto, with Paul Kletzki conducting, that has stayed in the catalogue since it was first released. It was followed by sessions in which Pollini recorded the two sets of Chopin Studies, Op 10 and Op 25, but Pollini refused to allow those tapes to...

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