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# Beethoven: The Last Three Sonatas, Opp. 109-111

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Beethoven: The Last Three Sonatas, Opp. 109-111

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Pollini at his best.
  

*by S***A on Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2021*

Don't bother with the review of Neovercingetorix who, I am sure, doesn't know how to read a score or play the piano. I have been a professional pianist for the last four decades and I can tell you that these recordings of Beethoven's last three sonata are just as beautiful as those from the 1970s.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Bold & Beautiful
  

*by D***Z on Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2020*

these performances are aggressive and assertive, it feels sometimes like it’s somehow inevitable, a feeling I generally only get from Bach, except this is very muscular with gorgeous but inconspicuous pedaling. Very competent and confident playing.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Powerful Beethoven from a great pianist, still in command at 77
  

*by F***E on Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2020*

Huntley Dent, Fanfare magazineTo me, Maurizio Pollini belongs among the greatest Beethoven pianists in the postwar era, and I nominated his complete set of the 32 piano sonatas for the Classical Hall of Fame (Fanfare 38:6). Everyone who reviewed it remarked on the very long time Pollini took to complete the project, from May 1975 until April 2014. In the very first recording session he played op. 109 and 110, the venue being the Herkulessaal in Munich. Now in commemoration of the Beethoven year, he returns to the same hall for the last three sonatas, which were recorded this time in concert (DG advertises that a video will be forthcoming, a rare thing in Pollini’s career).Pollini’s health has had its ups and downs in the past decade, with some cancellations and disappointed audiences; I detected in his latter-day Chopin and perhaps the last disc of Beethoven sonatas (op. 31 and op. 49) that his powers were declining, a sad thing for a pianist gifted with such command. On this occasion, though, he is in powerhouse mode. That’s reassuring, but it brings some drawbacks. In particular, there is too much emphasis on momentum. It is exciting to hear the Allegro molto second movement of op. 110 given with so much exuberance, but then Pollini begins the brief Adagio ma non troppo not with the desired contrast of tranquility but more as a spillover of enthusiasm. There’s a loss of detail and refinement, too, as exhibited in the first movement of op. 109. It is played with a kind of propulsive assurance that is familiar to anyone who knows Pollini the recitalist—however cool and detached he is thought to be (mistakenly), in concert he can be almost untamed. But he loses the variety of touch that made his earlier performance more interesting.Thanks to his precision and clarity, he was always able to bring out each voice in a movement like the Fuga finale of op. 110, which is now a little blurry, but there is drama and eloquence on a masterly scale in this reading. By the time we arrive at the opening of op. 111, it’s clear that the overall effect Pollini is aiming for is drama. That’s a presiding quality in his complete cycle, and the major reason I prefer him to the otherwise very fine Igor Levit on Sony. Here, perhaps to compensate for any doubts about his age—Pollini had turned 77 the previous January—there’s a good deal of over-the-top playing, yet always within the bounds of the pianist’s immense knowledge and experience of these towering works.The piano sounds magnificent in its depth and richness, which exacts a small revenge against the famous set of the late Beethoven sonatas that began Pollini’s cycle four decades ago. They had thin, shrill sound made worse in the early digital era and not much improved today.Essentially Pollini is in retirement, but he can still summon a commanding presence, which is the main thing I took away from these performances. I will keep them close to another DG release of the same late sonatas by Rudolf Serkin from October 1987 in Vienna. Without looking upon them as valedictories, these two recordings mean the most to me.

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