Maurizio Pollini – review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonSchubert's last three sonatas, which made up the latest of Maurizio Pollini's five London recitals this season, have a unity and are hewn from the same materials in ways that Beethoven's final three, played by Pollini here two weeks ago, are not. The challenge with the three Schuberts is largely one of stamina, for the audience as much as for the player; even Alfred Brendel recommends the omission of repeats in this programme. Yet there were no such concessions here fr...

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