Word: maurizio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meet that distinguished dropout, Italy's Maurizio Pollini...
...city hall, a group of leftists waved banners and chanted angry slogans, demanding that the mayor take action to give them jobs. "Enough of promises!" they cried. "Give us work!" Inside his office, in a palace that dates back to the last of Naples' Bourbon rulers, Mayor Maurizio Valenzi, 70, was trying to explain his city's problems over the din of the protesters. Valenzi is anything but a Bourbon; he is, in fact, a Communist, one of a score of Communist mayors elected to office in major Italian cities in the party's wave of election...
Bartók: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 (Maurizio Pollini, Chicago Symphony, Claudio Abbado conductor, Deutsche Grammophon). Pollini has had a banner year on disc, issuing fine performances of a staple of the repertory (Beethoven's Third Concerto) as well as an avant-garde experiment (Luigi Nono's... sofferte onde serene ...). This set-modernist but accessible- falls happily in-between. Bartók's angular octaves and Hungarian folk rhythms tempt many pianists to turn into percussionists. Pollini achieves a biting authority without ever banging...
Beethoven, The Late Piano Sonatas (Deutsche Grammophon, 3 LPs, 1978). The majesty and mystery of these performances show why Maurizio Pollini moved into the front rank of pianists during the decade...