Notice Pollini

Maurizio Pollini, reading

What with all the Celebrity Series performances upcoming: the Emerson String Quartet, 7 Ailey performances at The Wang Theatre, and Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman, a less than observant observer might overlook the Italian piano wizard Maurizio Pollini's Symphony Hall recital on Sunday, April 30. Do not make this mistake.

As I have covered here previously, the program is Chopin and Liszt:

Chopin
Two Nocturnes, Opus 55
   No. 1 in F minor
   No. 2 in E-flat Major
Ballade in G minor, Opus 23
Two Nocturnes, Opus 48
   No. 1 in C minor
   No. 2 in F-sharp minor
Polonaise in F-sharp minor, Opus 44

Liszt
Nuages gris
Unstern: sinister, disastro
La lugubre gondola I (Die Trauergondel)
R.W.—Venezia
Piano Sonata in B minor

Mr. Pollini's newest recording is a two-disc set of Chopin nocturnes from Deutsche Grammophon. Cleverly, some might even say diabolically, he will be performing four such nocturnes on April 30!

For our part, we have some equally clever notes on the program written by Dr. Richard E. Rodda to whet your appetite.

FOLLOW UP: Post on Boston Globe review of this recital.......Post on Pollini's encores