Maurizio Pollini – review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonHaving paid his respects to Bach in the opening programme, Maurizio Pollini's five-recital odyssey through the piano literature moved on to the 19th century, and to the works that form the core of his repertoire. This month's two Pollini Project concerts are devoted to Beethoven and Schubert, and to each composer's last trilogy of sonatas.There had been a sense of routine to his playing in Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier last month, but all trace of that was gone in Beeth...

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