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Mystified by the headline? Then read on for a partial view of Maurizio Pollini's latest recital, celebrating his 80th birthday.

Pollini's love for Chopin and Debussy was evident throughout an intimate recital as part of the Southbank Centre's in the International Piano Series.

With plenty of sparkle and spritz, Pollini laces his performances of Schumann and Chopin with intimacy and introspection in a programme of contrasting emotions.

At Carnegie Hall, a lion in winter focuses on Chopin.

Maurizio Pollini demonstrated why people still flock to hear him perform in sonatas by Beethoven and miniatures by Schoenberg.

A packed Festival Hall heard Maurizio Pollini recapture his glory years in sublime Chopin. 

Maurizio Pollini, Caudius Popp, and Felix Schwarz shine in an evening of Strauss and Brahms with Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin. 

Acclaimed Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini gives an absorbing concert of three of Beethoven's most well-known and pianistically challenging sonatas in the second of his International Piano Series concerts on London's Southbank.

If you recognize how Maurizio Pollini walks onto the stage, you can probably gauge his mood – which this evening was particularly restless. I have always wondered why he reaches the piano so quickly and almost immediately begins to play. Invariably, he has a puzzled expression on his face, as if he were wondering what all these spectators are doing in the hall – I love this shyness.

In an exhilarating finale, Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini’s fascinating series at the Royal Festival Hall, ‘The Pollini Project’, closed with a concert focusing on the music of Chopin, Debussy and Boulez. This was meant to be the penultimate concert in the series, but was rescheduled due to ill health.

Maurizio Pollini se mostró eficaz y admirable en la parte dedicada a Schönberg mientras que en las obras de Chopin hubo cierta variabilidad.

Maurizio Pollini, acogido en Madrid por la Fundación Scherzo, desplegó toda su sabiduría en un discurso pianístico profundamente personal.

La prodigeuse leçon de Maurizio Pollini dans les Kreisleriana de Schumann et la Troisième Sonate de Chopin. 

Nicht nur draußen war es turbulent: Die Staatskapelle und Maurizio Pollini entfesselten unter Daniel Barenboim mit ihrer überzeugenden Darbietung auch in der Berliner Philharmonie klangliche Stürme. 

Aunque de sobra es conocida la amplitud del repertorio pianístico de Pollini, este ingeniero del piano nos obsequió con un recital en el que se conjugaron dos cumbres del pianismo romántico: Schumann y Chopin.