Posted by Aaron on December 25, 1999 at 00:30:35:

I recently purchased Pollini's Polonaise CD on DG. I was greatly dissatisfied. First of all, I thought a Polonaise was supposed to be a march. It would be impossible to march to the music Pollini Plays, with all of the sudden tempo changes and pauses between notes. Second of all Pollini plays all of the polonaises much slower than the marked tempo. The 1st polonaise he plays almost adagio instead of allegro. Third of all he creates emotion only by banging really hard on the piano, I can't bear to listen to the polonaise #6 because of this.

What I was wondering is if there were any polonaise recordings out there with constant tempos that one could march to, with tempos played as fast as marked, and played smooth and flowing. That, in my opinion is what separates a polonaise from any other type of piano piece.

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