Maurizio Bling

Quoi de plus familier, de plus " naturel ", qu'une crèche de Noël ? Chacun le sait : il s'agit d'une représentation de la naissance du Christ.
Et pourtant, ouvrons les Évangiles : pas de crèche, pas de bœuf et pas d'âne, pas de rois mages, encore moins de " santons ".
D'où vient alors tout ce monde ? Depuis quand et pourquoi fait-on la crèche ? …

On New Year’s Eve 2012 Joyce DiDonato became the first singer to take the title role in Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda at New York’s Metropolitan Opera. With her at its heart, the production became, in the words of Opera magazine, “a high point of the season and of the company’s performance history of bel canto operas”.

Johannes Brahms - Klavierkonzerte Nr. 1 & 2 - Maurizio Pollini (2016) {2CD Set Deutsche Grammophon}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 375 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 218 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (png) -> 103 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2016 Deutsche Grammophon | 00289 479 3985
Classical / Romantic / Concerto / Piano

Maurizio Pollini, still one of the undisputed stars of the piano when these performances were recorded in 2011 and 2014, had already recorded the Brahms concertos several times before. One might expect a kind of late-life summation, but this is nothing of the sort. Instead, Pollini seems energized by the chance at an unusual pianist-conductor interaction, something arguably more important with Brahms than with any other composer: the motivic web can be knitted in various ways. Pollini's lithe elegance, little diminished in his late sixties, stands in sharp contrast to the big-boned dramatics of Christian Thielemann, leading the venerable Staatskapelle Dresden, and many passages sound totally novel.