Travel Tip: Classical Music in France
Maurizio Pollini, piano

This is the last part in the series of the Pollini perspectives on Beethoven's sonatas. Untiring adventurer of sound Maurizio Pollini has chosen, as a counterweight to the composer, the last three Madrigali concertati from Carnival by Salvatore Sciarrino, a work that he commissioned to himself. In composing these madrigals, the Sicilian composer used texts addressing the ineffable essence of inspiration. A poetic of the "light silence that transports song" and of the "mental force of music that impregnates silence," he wrote

Klangforum Wien - Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
Tito Ceccherini, conductor
Maurizio & Daniele Pollini, pianos