Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pianist Maurizio Pollini performs at Carnegie Hall in New York in 2001. (Robert Mecea / Associated Press) In 1960, an 18-year-old ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GATTEO, Italy — Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1972 film “Last Tango in Paris” with Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider sparked much ...

Maurizio Pollini, a Grammy-winning Italian pianist, known for his performances at La Scala opera house in Milan, has died at the age of 82. Pollini had previously faced heart problems, forcing him to ...

Maurizio Pollini’s complete recordings for Deutsche Grammophon have been gathered in one place, allowing listeners to trace his entire career. By David Weininger Maurizio Pollini didn’t think his ...

For more than two decades now, Maurizio Pollini has been one of the most successful pianists on the international musical scene. Pollini was born in 1942 in Milan and studied in the conservatory there ...

Though I often think about movies in relation to music, there’s also an aspect of music that’s similar to movies: drama. That aspect was in the forefront of an extraordinary piano recital by the ...

Maurizio Pollini, a celebrated Italian pianist whose playing combined intellectual rigor with technical mastery, died Saturday at age 82. The death was announced by Milan’s La Scala opera house, where ...

For years Maurizio Pollini was notorious for being press-shy, so the notion of actually landing an interview with this enigmatic, if indisputably great pianist seemed about as remote as being granted ...

Maurizio Pollini, one of the most celebrated living pianists, came to Orchestra Hall on Sunday afternoon to delight an adoring audience with a program of few surprises. Gone were the modern and ...

After Maurizio Pollini won the Warsaw International Chopin Competition in 1960 at the age of 19, he signed a contract with EMI. The immediate upshot of the arrangement was his outstanding recording of ...

Maurizio Pollini, Deborah Voigt, James Taylor, Kathleen Battle and Marilyn Horne were among the performers at a memorial for Ronald A. Wilford, who died in June.