Martha Argerich Edition: Chamber Music | EMI 0940142

Martha Argerich Edition: Chamber Music

Label: EMI

Cat No: 0940142

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 8

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 9th May 2011

Contents

About

Martha Argerich was born on 5th June 1941 in Buenos Aires. Her interest in the piano showed itself when she was three. Vincenzo Scaramuzza, her teacher, impressed on her the importance of feeling and the singing lyrical line – a facet of her playing which remains immediately recognisable. At the age of eight she made her debut concert playing Beethoven’s first concerto and the following year she gave a performance of Mozart’s Concerto No.20 in D minor, K.466 and Bach’s French Suite in G, BWV 816.

In 1955 her family moved to Europe so that Martha could study with Friedrich Gulda in Austria; in this she was supported by the Argentine government who gave her parents diplomatic posts in their Embassy in Vienna. She won both the Geneva Music and Ferruccio Busoni International Competitions in 1957, but it was the winning of the seventh Chopin Piano competition in Warsaw that confirmed her as a major talent at the age of 24.

Her formidable technique has often been compared to that of Horowitz. She is reputed to have learnt Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit in three days, having been told it was extremely difficult. Her solo career lasted for a quarter of a century, during which her talent for interpreting the romantic classics, notably Chopin and Liszt, were matched by her brilliance in the 20th century masters Ravel, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev and Messiaen. Her decision to limit her performances to chamber music and concerto was taken, as she admitted in interviews, to her feeling of loneliness on stage alone. This has been her career path for the last 30 years and she retains the aura of one of the most brilliant of all pianists of modern generations.

She has been particularly generous in supporting the next generation of artists. She appears regularly as a jury member at important competitions and her friends and protégées captivate audiences with exquisite performances of chamber music at her festival at Lugano.

Now at the age of 70, we can salute her as the phenomenon she undoubtedly is and wish her continued success in all aspects of her life.

Contents:
CD 1
- Beethoven: Violin Sonata No.9 in A, 'Kreutzer' Op.47
- Franck: Violin Sonata in A
Itzhak Perlman / Martha Argerich

CD 2
- Beethoven: Piano Quartet No.3 in C Major, WoO 36
Martha Argerich / Renaud Capuçon / Lida Chen / Gautier Capuçon

- Beethoven: Clarinet Trio in B flat major Op.11
Martha Argerich / Marek Denemark / Mark Dobrinskji

- Beethoven: Piano Trio No.5 in D Major, Op.70 No.1 "Ghost"
Martha Argerich / Renaud Capuçon / Mischa Maisky

- Chopin: Introduction and Polonaise brillante in C, Op.3
Martha Argerich / Gautier Capuçon

CD 3
- Schumann: Violin Sonata No.1 in A Minor, Op.105
Geza Hosszu-Legocky / Martha Argerich

- Schumann: Violin Sonata No.2 in D Minor, Op.121
Martha Argerich / Renaud Capuçon

- Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op.73
Martha Argerich / Sergei Nakariakov

- Schumann: Märchenbilder, Op.113
Nobuko Imai / Martha Argerich

CD 4
- Schumann: Piano Quintet in Eb Major, Op.44
Martha Argerich / Dora Schwarzberg / Renaud Capuçon / Nora Romanoff-Schwarzberg / Mark Dobrinskji

- Schumann: Piano Quartet in E Flat Major, Op.47
Martha Argerich / Renaud Capuçon / Lida Chen / Gautier Capuçon

- Schumann: Andante and Variations in B Flat Major, Op.46
Martha Argerich / Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky

CD 5
- Haydn: Piano Trio in G Major, Hob.XV:25
Martha Argerich / Renaud Capuçon / Gautier Capuçon

- Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No.1 in D Minor, Op.49
Martha Argerich / Renaud Capuçon / Gautier Capuçon

- Schumann: Phantasiestücke, Op.88
Martha Argerich / Renaud Capuçon / Gautier Capuçon

- Debussy: Cello Sonata
Mischa Maisky / Martha Argerich

- Debussy: La Plus que lente (arr. Maisky: cello & piano)
Mischa Maisky / Martha Argerich

- Debussy: Préludes (arr. Maisky: cello & piano): No.12 Minstrels
Mischa Maisky / Martha Argerich
 
CD 6
- Franck: Cello Sonata in A major
Mischa Maisky / Martha Argerich

- Bartok: Violin Sonata No.1, Sz.75
Renaud Capuçon / Martha Argerich

- Bartok: Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet & Piano
Chantal Juillet / Martha Argerich / Michael Collins

CD 7
- Shostakovich: Quintet for Piano & Strings in G Minor, Op.57
Martha Argerich / Renaud Capuçon / Alissa Margulis / Lyda Chen / Mischa Maisky

- Shostakovich: Trio for Piano, Violin & Cello, No.2 in E Minor, Op.67
Martha Argerich / Lyda Chen / Mischa Maisky

- Janácek: Concertino for Piano, 2 Violins, Viola, Clarinet, Horn and Bassoon
Martha Argerich / Lucia Hall / Alissa Margulis / Nora Romanoff-Schwarzberg / Corrado Giuffredi / Zora Slokar / Vincent Godel

CD 8
- Schumann: Piano Quintet in E Flat Major, Op.44
Martha Argerich / Dora Schwarzberg / Lucy Hall / Nobuko Imai / Mischa Maisky

- Schumann: Violin Sonata No.2 in D minor Op.121
Dora Schwarzberg / Martha Argerich

- Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op.73
Natalia Gutman / Martha Argerich

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