ROME, Italy — Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini, a virtuoso of Chopin and Beethoven who enjoyed a decades-long collaboration with La Scala, died Saturday age 82, the Milan opera house announced. He had ...

“I admired Maurizio Pollini a lot,” said Licad who received a double standing ovation at the Met with the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO) under Polish maestro Grzegorz Nowak. Both Pollini and ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Critic’s Notebook Maurizio Pollini’s complete recordings for Deutsche Grammophon have been gathered in one place, allowing listeners to trace his entire career. The eminent ...

Claudio Abbado and Maurizio Pollini – two great veterans of the Italian classical music world – have each been honoured at the Royal Philharmonic Society awards. Pollini won his award for the Pollini ...

Scotto/Horne/Pavarotti/Ghiaurov/RAI Orchestra Rome, 1977 An extraordinary quartet of soloists for this early example of Abbado's greatness in Verdi. Vienna ...

Conductor Claudio Abbado and pianist Maurizio Pollini were among the winners at this year's Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) Music Awards. Abbado was presented with the conductor prize for his ...

When Claudio Abbado, the revered Italian conductor who died Monday, turned 80 last summer, record companies celebrated with several super-sized box sets of his recordings and videos. It’s not hard to ...

This hour is devoted to one of today's top pianists, Maurizio Pollini, and his concert performance of an epic piano concerto at last summer's Lucerne Festival in Switzerland. Pollini joins conductor ...

ROME (AP) — Maurizio Pollini, a Grammy-winning Italian pianist who performed frequently at La Scala opera house in Milan, has died. He was 82. Pollini died on Saturday, La Scala said in a statement.