Piano Concertos

Maurizio Pollini's interpretation of the Brahms First Piano Concerto with the acclaimed artistic teamwork of Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic is guaranteed to be as exciting as that of the Second Concerto (453 505-2), released last year. Gramophone magazine's reviewer commented at that time: "Pollini's and Abbado's Brahms Second is among the most formidably single-minded on record ... Here surely is a performance above the vagaries of changing taste and fashion; one which could achieve a timeless validity."